Article: Flight attendant loses RM20,000 in scam


New Straits Times
08-02-2005
Flight attendant loses RM20,000 in scam
Edition: Main/Lifestyle

KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - The story has a familiar ring to it. Pay RM20,000

now and receive a bagful of ringgit later. In this case, the man with the
sorry tale is flight attendant.

A police source said the flight attendant, who is in his 30s, met a

South African at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early last month.

They struck up a conversation and the African, who gave his name as

Ibrahim, said he had six big bags filled with money which were being held

for him at Wisma UN in Damansara Heights.

"Ibrahim told the flight attendant that he needed about RM20,000 to pay

the person who was ...

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