Thursday, March 22, 2012

Dangers of the Internet

Online Shopping:
Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman who is believed to be involved in at least 2 cases of online cheating.

On March 3, the victim made a police report that she had been cheated during an online purchase of a branded bag.

Investigations revealed that the victim had responded to an online advertisement placed by the suspect on the website Deluxemall.com for the sale of branded bags. The suspect went by the online moniker of Bagjunkie.

The victim purchased a bag and transferred a sum of $1,400 to a bank account provided by the suspect. Thereafter, the suspect became evasive and the bag was never delivered to the victim

Blackmail:

A young couple who was charged last month with extortion in an online love scam faced more charges in court today.

Yap Siew Ting, 17, and Soh Zhi Ren Alexander, 21, were charged in court last month for allegedly extorting S$6,000 from a 22-year-old victim on Jan 8 this year.

That charge has been amended and they are now accused of extorting S$150,000 from him on May 31 last year.Victims were tricked into sending nude videos of themselves to Yap. The couple had allegedly threatened to upload nude videos of the victims onto the internet if they refused to pay up.

Credits: Mabel Wang

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