From: atajudin nur <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 11:13 AM
Subject: PUSH-POCKET IN KUALA LUMPUR
>> Whether it is true or not, just be aware!
>>
>> FIRST AIRPORT DUTY FREE
>> AT BANGKOK AIRPORT AND NOW THIS
>>
>> PUSH-POCKETING IN KUALA LUMPUR
>>
>> I am sure you all have heard of 'pick pocket'.
>> A new trend 'push pocket'.
>> Read on... for your own good.
>>
>> A few days ago a new type of crime has surfaced in town.
>> It goes something like this:-
>> Somebody slips a hand-phone into your pocket,
>> sometimes it could be just
>> a wallet with
>> an identity card and a few ringgit.
>>
>> A few minutes later, the 'owner' comes up
>> and confronts you, the 'thief '.
>> He makes a big commotion that you stole his stuff.
>>
>> You, caught unaware, are then pulled aside by the
>> 'owner' for a settlement. You are intimidated and
>> threatened
>> that if you do not pay up the police will be brought in.
>> If you pay up, this 'owner' lets you go.
>> If not, the police are brought in.
>>
>> Another strange thing is that there always seems
>> to be a 'witness' to your 'theft'.
>>
>> I am told this often happens to foreigners at
>> the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA)
>> or even at LRT trains.
>> Given that you're 'guilty until proven
>> innocent'
>> as far as the Malaysian police are concerned,
>> I understand some poor people are in jail for
>> these 'offences'.
>>
>> At the KLIA, the 'owner' throws his hand-phone
>> and
>> wallet with the few ringgit notes into
>> the luggage
>> trolley of a just arrived passenger.
>> The drama unfolds a few minutes later.
>> The real culprit has easily convinced our Malaysian
>> police
>> to arrest the real victim (if he has not paid up the
>> 'settlement' demand).
>> This is a very serious matter.
>>
>> This is another form of extortionists operating in broad
>> daylight.
>> They are disgusting criminals who will do anything
>> to rob and steal. The sickening part of the whole
>> scenario is that unless you pay the 'quoted
>> settlement' money,
>> they will put you in real trouble by calling the police.
>>
>> The real culprit gets back his hand-phone
>> and wallet but the real victim ( i.e. could be any one of
>> us)
>> is thrown into the police lock up and charged in court.
>>
>> So do be very careful,
>> otherwise you may end up as a 'thief'
>> as you have no way to prove your innocence..
>>
>>
>> Pass it on.....
>> let more people be aware
>> of such things around
>> them.
>>
>> Geh Cheng Lok & Co, Advocates & Solicitors
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