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Aug 14, 2009
Blogshop woman jailed <!--10 min-->
She gets three months for not delivering goods after pocketing $1,000 <!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Serene Luo & Teh Joo Lin </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->
A YOUNG woman hawked branded accessories and handbags at bargain prices on her blogshop. But Diana Koh, 21, never delivered the bags, even though she pocketed over $1,000 in total from close to 40 women who responded to her online offers of bags, jewellery casings and make-up pouches. Yesterday, Koh was jailed for three months for cheating 37 victims in March. A district court heard how one of her victims had ordered bags from her via the website, k-sayuri.blogspot.com. The site has since been shut down.
In early March, the victim had been drawn to the website while surfing the Internet and ordered five bags. Koh promised to mail them to her home. The woman went on to transfer $87 to Koh's bank account but the bags never came. Her subsequent attempts to contact Koh were unsuccessful. When contacted, another victim, a 24-year-old who bought a handbag from Koh for $19, said other sellers had priced it at almost $50. She said Koh claimed she was selling it at a discount as she had to migrate to Australia soon.
Asked if she had smelled a rat, the woman said: 'Yes, I did suspect at first. But human beings are greedy and since it's not a huge sum, I decided to try my luck.' Koh is not the only one who has been jailed for an online scam involving the purchase of branded goods. In March this year, the police arrested a woman who went off the radar after collecting over $30,000 online from buyers to make bulk purchases of branded Coach and Kate Spade handbags. She was later jailed.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Aug 14, 2009
Blogshop woman jailed <!--10 min-->
She gets three months for not delivering goods after pocketing $1,000 <!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Serene Luo & Teh Joo Lin </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->
A YOUNG woman hawked branded accessories and handbags at bargain prices on her blogshop. But Diana Koh, 21, never delivered the bags, even though she pocketed over $1,000 in total from close to 40 women who responded to her online offers of bags, jewellery casings and make-up pouches. Yesterday, Koh was jailed for three months for cheating 37 victims in March. A district court heard how one of her victims had ordered bags from her via the website, k-sayuri.blogspot.com. The site has since been shut down.
In early March, the victim had been drawn to the website while surfing the Internet and ordered five bags. Koh promised to mail them to her home. The woman went on to transfer $87 to Koh's bank account but the bags never came. Her subsequent attempts to contact Koh were unsuccessful. When contacted, another victim, a 24-year-old who bought a handbag from Koh for $19, said other sellers had priced it at almost $50. She said Koh claimed she was selling it at a discount as she had to migrate to Australia soon.
Asked if she had smelled a rat, the woman said: 'Yes, I did suspect at first. But human beings are greedy and since it's not a huge sum, I decided to try my luck.' Koh is not the only one who has been jailed for an online scam involving the purchase of branded goods. In March this year, the police arrested a woman who went off the radar after collecting over $30,000 online from buyers to make bulk purchases of branded Coach and Kate Spade handbags. She was later jailed.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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