Malaysians in cahoots with Nigerians

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Malaysians in cahoots with Nigerians
by Charles Ramendran

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 22, 2010): With their hands full solving scores of scams and other crime cases committed by Nigerians here, the police are having a headache now that these foreigners are luring Malaysians to work with them.

As more people become aware of scams hatched by African nationals which have caused millions of ringgit in losses to their victims over the years, the schemers are now picking Malaysians as accomplices to their crimes for a cut in the cash they may make.

Police said this tactic may see more victims falling for such scams as in most cases the foreigners remain the masterminds behind the scene and have their Malaysian partners pull off the ruse.

In the latest case on Friday, the federal Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID) arrested a 28-year-old Nigerian man and his Malaysian accomplices -- two women and a man aged between 36 and 44 -- at a house in Puchong for allegedly cheating an Argentinian of more than RM120,000.

Federal CCID assistant director of operations ACP Rohaimi Md Isa said the 39-year-old Argentinian man is of Taiwanese ethnicity and works as a manager of a franchise company that deals in used plastic ware in Buenos Aires and purchases such products from around the world.

He said the Argentinian responded to advertisements on the Internet placed by Nigerian con men supposedly for huge quantities of used plastic goods for sale last year.

He said the Argentinian called up the Nigerians scammers and agreed to purchase the items.
He was told to make a down-payment into the account of a woman if he wanted to secure the goods and have them delivered to Buenos Aires.

The Argentinian made payments to four different bank accounts over the following weeks and when the goods were not delivered after months, he flew to Malaysia and lodged a police report in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 9 last year.

Rohaimi said police tracked down the suspects to the double-storey terraced house in Puchong before carrying out the 1am raid.

They found, among other things, 13 automated teller cards (ATM) of various banks registered to a woman accomplice. Police learnt that the Nigerian suspect was the mastermind of the scam and had used the Malaysians to convince or win the trust of his victims.

Rohaimi urged Malaysians to be cautious of such scams and resist being lured by these schemers to be part of their activities. -- theSun

[The Wild Geese]

It is indeed very sad to know that these evil mugus are infesting the good names of the Malaysian people as honest and hard working one. As we can see and say, money is really the source of evil.