A 73-year-old woman from Georgetown was swindled of RM155,000 in an Internet love scam by a Nigerian syndicate that has been busted by police. She was the latest victim of the Nigerian, which had cheated 110 other women the past two years of about RM1.35mil. He had cheated the women for their money from as little as RM 5,000. Penang deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm (I) Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the Nigerians had posed as handsome British men, and took time to win women's hearts and trust, sometimes to the extent of proposing marriage. The women then received calls from a local woman impersonating a Customs officer, telling them that the parcel had been held up for Customs checks. They told the victims that a penalty had to be paid and provided them with bank accounts to pay the fine. After the victims banked in the money, the "British men" and parcels disappeared. Half of the women were believed to be college and university students. The syndicate was busted last Friday when police arrested 11 Nigerian men and three local women in raids on two houses in Seberang Prai and Butterworth after a month of surveillance. Many things were seized in the raids which includes mobile phones and money. The suspects are aged between 25 and 38, and some of the Nigerians are enrolled as students in institutions of higher education in Penang and it was said that from the documents that they have found, they feel that there are more of them.
This is terrible that this kind of cases is even happening, not only in Malaysia, but also in countries all around the world. Women must be more careful when someone that you have never met before is asking for so much money. Women should never ever give out money to strangers or anyone else except someone who you trust and know.
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