By BOB Goswami
MALAYSIA NEWS - Malaysian official said that the international drug syndicates were using popular social networking site Facebook to recruit Malaysian women as drug mules. The officials said the women were offered gifts and money and befriend with men on this social networking site, and afterward hired as drug mules.
Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Riot said most of these men were nationals of Nigeria and South Africa. He further cautioned women to be aware of these luring offers.
Last month a Malaysian girl was arrested in China for drugs possession in the country and revealed that she was hired after befriend in Facebook. Mr. Riot said men in international drug syndicates up clean women on Facebook and lured them into drug business.
He said the men chatted with girls in Facebook and gained trust and lured them with expensive gifts and eventually used these unsuspecting victims as drug mules to smuggle narcotics. Even in far cases they offered them holiday packages Japan, China and South America, asking girls to carry packages, bags or gifts that contain drugs.
He urged internet savvy university aged girls to not accept such holiday packages and gifts as some ulterior strings always attached to those.
785 out of 1,560 Malaysians arrested overseas since 1991 were drug mules, including 149 women.
December 02, 2010 | 0
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