Three Vietnamese nabbed over phone-swop cheating cases
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Thursday, Oct 27, 2011
Three Vietnam nationals were arrested for their suspected involvement in at least six cases of cheating where genuine mobile phones were swopped with imitation China-made ones at mobile-phone shops here.
In a statement yesterday, police said that two men and a woman aged between 25 and 33 were nabbed. In the cases, in which the first incident took place last Friday, the suspects would visit mobile-phone shops under the pretext of selling genuine phones. As part of their ruse, they would allow shop owners to examine the condition of the phones they had before negotiating their selling prices. Once the deals were agreed upon, they would request to wrap the phones in pieces of paper, giving false promises that they would return within a week to buy back the phones.
The unsuspecting shop owners then left the suspects to do the wrapping while they attended to other customers.
It was only when the suspects had left the shops that the owners discovered that the wrapped phones were different from the ones shown to them earlier.
The three suspects were arrested in Geylang on Tuesday. Cash amounting to more than $3,300, genuine and imitation phones and pieces of paper were seized.
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my paper
Thursday, Oct 27, 2011
Three Vietnam nationals were arrested for their suspected involvement in at least six cases of cheating where genuine mobile phones were swopped with imitation China-made ones at mobile-phone shops here.
In a statement yesterday, police said that two men and a woman aged between 25 and 33 were nabbed. In the cases, in which the first incident took place last Friday, the suspects would visit mobile-phone shops under the pretext of selling genuine phones. As part of their ruse, they would allow shop owners to examine the condition of the phones they had before negotiating their selling prices. Once the deals were agreed upon, they would request to wrap the phones in pieces of paper, giving false promises that they would return within a week to buy back the phones.
The unsuspecting shop owners then left the suspects to do the wrapping while they attended to other customers.
It was only when the suspects had left the shops that the owners discovered that the wrapped phones were different from the ones shown to them earlier.
The three suspects were arrested in Geylang on Tuesday. Cash amounting to more than $3,300, genuine and imitation phones and pieces of paper were seized.
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