This smells so Naijelian

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Master Baiter Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 241

KUALA TERENGGANU: A 28-year-old woman who fell in love with a “cyber Casanova” lost RM19,000 after being duped into parting with her savings to help him start a business.

The woman had never met the stranger, purportedly from Ireland, and only corresponded with him via e-mail.

She had believed that the cyber love affair was genuine after he asked for her hand in marriage and pressed her to part with a sum amounting to thousands of ringgit, said to be for capital to set-up a textile business in Malaysia.

State commercial crime chief Supt Azmi Adam said the man had told the woman that he planned to have the business in the country to secure her future after they got married.

“The woman received an e-mail from the man on June 23 asking her to deposit the money into a bank account,” he said yesterday, adding the money was said to be for Customs clearance to enable textile materials to be brought into Malaysia.

Later, the man asked for more money, claiming that he had to pay a penalty of an equivalent of £7,000 (RM40,869) to the Irish authorities due to flaws in export documentation.

“The woman continued to deposit more money into the bank account, believing that the man really loved her and the business deal was genuine,” Supt Azmi said.

However, when the man keep pressing for more money, she realised it was a scam and lodged a police report at Jertih in Besut yesterday.

Supt Azmi said police traced the e-mail address and discovered that it originated from Naiigelia. The woman had deposited the money into a local bank account.

419Eater is my life Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 445

I read about this. Hope they can do something about it, seeing as the cops have the local bank account information.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

You've got the wrong TV chef there, ramsey.

ramsey (didn't) wrote:

police traced the e-mail address and discovered that it originated from Nigella.

(yes, I know it is a local rendering of Nigeria, but it was too good to resist.)

They should be able to trace the bank account. Let's hope it's an accomplice and not an innocent mule. Unfortunately they will never get the lad himself or recover any of the money she sent. Unless the accomplice is a cousin or something, it is likely that he never met the lad and only knows him by his scamming names.