KUALA LUMPUR: A 77-year-old retiree from the United States thought she had found true love online and came to Malaysia to meet the “dashing construction tycoon”. After meeting her on social media, he would constantly send her passionate e-mail messages and their online romance blossomed. The woman, whose identity has been withheld, was greeted by a man who claimed he would take her to her lover. “We also managed to extract (online) conversations between the suspects and the victim. He said that if anyone asked to make monetary transactions online, warning bells should already go off.

Source: The Star July 27, 2017 23:37 UTC