Facebook Con Artist Suckers Woman Out Of $367K
A Malaysian woman bemoans the loss of over 1.1 million rupees, $367,000 in U.S. currency, to a con artist she met on Facebook.
A woman in Malaysa forked over 1.1 million rupees — $367,000 in U.S. currency — to a con artist she met on Facebook.
The swindler claimed he was a U.K. citizen who needed the unidentified woman’s bank account in order to obtain monies from a contract he had with Petronas, Malaysia’s national oil company.
The man said his contract was worth $1.5 million and that he needed the victim to help him pay stamp duty charges and insurance fees before he could get his agreement approved.
He supplicated to the victim that all he needed her financial assistance in paying the fees and he could get what was owed to him.
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