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Article: When text messages can backfire
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- New Straits Times
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- September 8, 2006
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New Straits Times
09-08-2006
When text messages can backfire
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
KUALA LUMPUR: It may be hip and a sign of the times, but the growing trend of circulating text messages on kidnap and abduction cases is making matters hard for police.
Different types of crime require different approaches. What may work in a case of car theft or snatch theft may not work when there's been a kidnapping.
In advising the public to stop this practice, Federal CID director Datuk Fauzi Saari told the New Straits Times yesterday that kidnappers would have warned the victim's family not to go to the police. "There is the danger that the widely circulated text messages may ...