Vietnamese woman jailed for cheating by swapping iPhones
Published on May 23, 2012
Another Vietnamese national involved in swopping of iPhones to cheat several mobile phone shops was jailed for 24 months on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
By Elena Chong
Another Vietnamese national involved in swopping of iPhones to cheat several mobile phone shops was jailed for 24 months on Wednesday.
Tong Thi Ngoc Minh, 28, had duped eight shops in various locations of a total of $7,680 together with her accomplice, Nguyen Van Huu, 33, last October.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of cheating by inducing the victims to hand over between $800 and $1,250 on the pretext that they would sell them an original black and an original white iPhone.
The court heard that Tong had lived in Singapore between 2006 and 2010 during her marriage to a Singaporean. She then left for Vietnam.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
