Be wary of 'cyber-friends'
2009/10/03
SHAH ALAM, Sat: Be wary when making new "friends" on the Internet. Some "cyber-friends" might just turn out to be members of a scam syndicate.
The warning comes from Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar, following numerous police reports where the gullible were duped of their money by new-found "friends" to claim non-existent gifts.
He said the victims were made to believe the gifts were supposedly with the customs department due to unpaid taxes.
Hence, they are lured into depositing a certain sum of money in the accounts of syndicate members claiming to be customs officers.
"In some cases, the money which the victims were asked to deposit, amounted to as much as RM5,000," Khalid told reporters after launching the Crime Prevention Exhibition and Seminar at Universiti Teknologi MARA here today.
In a separate incident, the police are in the midst of tracking down three African men in connection with the abduction of an Indonesian boy last night.
The boy, whom the police found outside the departure hall of the KL International Airport (KLIA) early today, has since been reunited with his mother.
The woman and her son were sent to the Indonesian Embassy for further assistance.
Khalid said that earlier, the woman had gone to the KLIA with her son to meet an African acquaintance. Subsequently, the three got into a car
He said that upon reaching Kota Damansara, the woman was embroiled in an argument with her friend before she was abandoned by the road-shoulder about 9pm.
However, the foreigners took away her son, a bag of clothes, laptop, US$900, (RM3,060) and an undisclosed sum of rupiah and ringgit.
Khlaid said initial police investigations revealed that the boy was sent to an apartment where he played video games before being sent to KLIA by taxi.
He urged the taxi driver to contact the police to facilitate investigations. -- BERNAMA
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