Internet Love Scam: drug mule

Another story of 'greedy opportunist'.

With all the news published in papers, this college girl never read any of them I bet.

My own children never read anything. My students only read questions, not the notes.

That leaves old lady like me perusing news and blogs.

Sighhhhhhhh
 KUALA LUMPUR: The polytechnic student who went missing with an African man for more than two months has been located – she was caught at the Haikou airport in China as a suspected drug smuggler.

Investigations revealed that Christina Luke Niju, 22, had arrived in Hainan on April 29 and had been issued a visa until July 29.

On Wednesday, her distraught parents had sought help from MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong to find their daughter after she failed to return home.

Chong said Christina, a Kuching Polytechnic student, was arrested on June 29 and had since been detained at the Hainan detention centre in Guangzhou.

She is still being investigated. When the process is done, we can arrange for the parents to see her in China,” Chong told a press conference here yesterday.

He said Christina’s was one of the 10 cases over the last year involving Malaysians being used as drug mules to China.

He said seven of them had been sentenced to between 15 years and life imprisonment in various parts of China while the trial of one woman was pending. He added that a Malaysian man had been executed.

He said all these cases involved African men who conned their victims into becoming drug mules.

“I believe this trend is becoming very serious and I will brief MCA leaders about these cases so that this issue can be raised in the Cabinet,” said Chong.

On April 28, Christina had told a roommate that she would be going on a business trip to China with an African man named James.

Her parents lodged a missing person’s report with the police in Sandakan, who then passed the information to the Kuching police.

They sought Chong’s help after all attempts failed.

Love Scam Ring Members Nabbed

Ahhh .. finally!!! A GREATTTT news. Hopefully there will be more.


20 love-cheat ring members nabbed in Malaysia
Malaysia Sun
Saturday 10th July, 2010
(ANI)


Twenty foreign nationals, believed to be members of a group which preyed on single and lonesome women, have reportedly been detained in operations conducted by Malaysian police two weeks ago.

Rohaimi Md Isa of the Kuala Lumpur Commercial Crime Investigation Department said that the foreign nationals detained comprised 16 from Nigeria, one from Ghana and another from Ivory Coast, a Filipina and an African woman, all in their 20s and 30s.
He said police also seized 13 laptops and RM42, 979 in the raids, which were conducted following complaints by the victims.

"Members of the syndicate preyed on career women who are in their 40s and lonely, befriending them via social networking sites on the Internet, the Star Online quoted ACP Rohaimi as saying.

"They would profess their love for the women and as proof of their affection, promised them jewellery and other gifts.

"The women would then receive telephone calls that they had to make some payment for the release of the parcels containing their gifts from the Customs Department," he added. (ANI)