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Five Nigerians On Student Visa Arrested Over Love Scam, E-commerce Fraud In Malaysia
Police also seized four laptops, 15 mobile phones, two modems with routers, one passport and an automated teller machine (ATM) card.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 14, 2021
Five Nigerians suspected of being involved in love scam and e-commerce (online purchases) fraud have been arrested in a raid at Taman Putra Perdana, Puchong in Malaysia.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said the five Nigerians, comprising four men and a woman, were detained at two premises at the Ruvena Villa Apartments in the raid between 9am and 11 am, Malaymail reports.
KUALA LUMPUR: Five Nigerians believed to be operating a love scam and e-commerce scam syndicate have been busted by police.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said a team raided two apartments at Ruvena Villa, Taman Putra Perdana, Puchong, between 9am and 11am on Tuesday (Feb 9). We arrested four men and one woman, all Nigerians, aged between 30 and 35. Based on investigations all the suspects are involved in love and e-commerce scams targeting victims from Malaysia and Thailand, he said in a statement on Thursday (Feb 11).
He said police seized four laptops, 15 mobile phones, two modems, a passport and an ATM card.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested three women and four men believed to be part of an investment scam which duped victims out of over RM831,000.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Comm Zainuddin Yaacob said the syndicate went by the name “Iskandar Investment”. They used a name similar to that of the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) and we believed it was done to confuse victims. We launched raids on Feb 1 at five locations around Kuala Lumpur and arrested the three women and four men. Our investigations revealed the men were the masterminds of the syndicate, he told reporters at the CCID headquarters on Friday (Feb 5).