Conmen at airport preying on victims with sob stories

SYNDICATE members posing as travellers “cheated out of their money” approached a Good Samaritan at KLIA2 – twice – for help, reported China Press.

Working in pairs, the conmen claimed that they were short of a few hundred ringgit to buy air tickets to return to their country after being cheated of their money.

A marketing sales manager, 35, said he bumped into the suspects at KLIA2 in Sepang at about 5pm on Tuesday.

Upon hearing their “predicament”, the manager lent them RM680, which the duo promised to return to him once they had returned to their country. However, he came across them again three hours later. Not recognising that they had approached him earlier for “help”, they repeated the same story.

The manager then took their photos and called the police for help. One of the suspects was arrested. When the manager wrote about the incident on Facebook, some of the netizens told him that they had also encountered the same suspects and lent them money.

Some netizens were cheated between RM100 and RM800 but did not lodge police reports, said the manager.

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