Monday, April 04, 2005

Beware of Handphone Cheat

Beware Of Handphone Cheat
> A Chinese man has been going around on the pretext
> of offering jobs to
> youths and thereafter cheating them of their
> handphones.
> 2 Between Dec 2003 and Feb 2005, 22 such cases
> involving a total of 28
> victims have been reported to Police. This year
> alone, there have been
> twelve such reported cases. In all the cases, the
> suspect would approach the
> victims or call them and offer them temporary jobs
> like selling oranges,
> delivery and sales. He would then arrange to meet
> the victims on another day
> to bring them to the workplace. At the subsequent
> meeting, the suspect would
> borrow the victim's handphone to make a phone call
> and thereafter disappear
> from view. In some cases, he has been known to ask
> the victims to purchase
> food and drinks while he used their handphones. The
> suspect would then make
> off with the victim's handphone. A total of 28
> handphones worth more than
> $7,800 has been stolen by this man.
> 3 The suspect last struck on 27 Feb 05 at Bugis
> Village. He then attempted
> to commit another case at Golden Mile Complex 10
> minutes later. On 26 Feb
> 05, the victim, a 16-year-old Chinese youth, was
> told by his friend, also
> 16, that he met the suspect, who could provide them
> jobs as clothes
> salesmen. The suspect arranged to meet both of them
> separately the next day.
> The suspect met up with the victim on 27 Feb 05 at
> Queen Street at about
> 11am. The suspect gave the victim $10 to buy drinks
> for the suspect's
> workers and then borrowed the victim's handphone,
> valued at $50. As the
> youth was walking to the coffeshop to buy the
> drinks, he felt something
> amiss and turned back to look for the suspect, who
> was no longer around. The
> suspect then attempted to pull the same trick on the
> victim's friend about
> 10 minutes later near Golden Mile Complex without
> success.
> 4 The man is described by the victims to be a plump
> Chinese man in his
> thirties with a crew cut. He has identified himself
> using various names such
> as Sam, Ah Hong, Alex, Wei Jie and Ah Hao. In the
> last case, the victim
> noticed that the man had a tattoo on his right arm
> and a lot of rashes on
> both hands.
> 5 Police would like to caution handphone owners,
> especially youths, to be
> wary of lending their handphones to strangers. They
> should also note down
> the IMEI number of their handphones so as to make
> recovery possible should
> they lose their phones.
> 6 Members of the public who have information on the
> suspect are also
> requested to contact the Police Hotline at
> 1800-2550000.
>
>
> SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
> 3 March 2005
>
> Oh Liak Chee

1 Comments:

Blogger DARLing said...

Yo wen are u posting your own feeling & views ?
eager to see too ..

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