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KUALA LUMPUR: The “High Court” scam claimed another victim.

Restaurant manager Tan Lay Pheng, 31, from Cheras lost RM12,000 which she deposited into an account of a “judge.”

Tan said she received a telephone call saying that she had missed “a first court hearing” and must attend the next one.

“I was told to press ‘9′ and a man spoke to me in Mandarin and asked for my name and identity card number because he said I had committed a crime,” she told a press conference called by MCA Public Services and Complaint Department head Datuk Michael Chong.

Five minutes later, a man claiming to be a policeman from Bukit Aman informed her that she was involved in money laundering and passed the line to a so-called lawyer.

The “lawyer” said the police wanted to charge Tan in the High Court because her Maybank and Public Bank accounts had “problems.”

“I denied committing any crime but was willing to co-operate with the court,” Tan said, adding that the “lawyer” then told her to deposit her money in a safer account (belonging to the “judge”) or her accounts would be frozen.

She withdrew all her money from four banks and deposited RM12,000 in an account at Hong Leong Bank.

Tan told her friend about the incident and realised she had been cheated.

“I recalled later that my house was broken into on May 10 and all my personal documents were gone. The robbers could have used my documents for the scam.”

Chong said most of the 60 mobile phone scam cases the bureau received this year involved those who lost their personal documents.

“They believed that the court must have a reason for calling them up,” said Chong.

A bird in a cage and a fish in an aquarium.

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A bird who is free to fly in the open sky and a fish who is free to swim around the wide ocean.

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The toll charges for the SMART Tunnel is RM2. Toll collection will commence on midnight Friday after the one-month toll free period expires. The RM2 toll rate is considered reasonable, much lower than the RM3 or RM4 initially speculated by many.

Kuldeep S. Jessy
The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: A landlord who fitted spy cameras in the three bathrooms of a house he rented out to female students has been detained.

The cameras were fixed near the fluorescent lamps in the bathrooms at his double-storey house in Taman Bullion Mewah, Jinjang here.

One of the students, in her early 20s, who rents the house with 18 others, went to the bathroom, looked up and noticed something strange in the light socket on Saturday.

She told her fellow housemates when they returned from college. The girls informed a neighbour who opened the socket and discovered the cameras.

A quick check revealed two more cameras in the other bathrooms. The girls made a police report.

A police team went to the house and recovered the cameras which were believed to have transmitted the images remotely.

The girls called the landlord under the pretext that something was wrong with the house. Police arrested the man when he turned up.

Sentul OCPD Asst Comm K. Kumaran confirmed that the landlord, a 34-year-old interior designer, was arrested at midnight.

He said the man from Gombak would be remanded until Friday.

The following may be a joke, but seriously, it reflects the current state of affairs in our beloved country with reference to the recent incidents of ceiling collapse, burst pipes, etc.

A Malaysian dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country. He goes first to the German hell and asks, “What do they do here?”

He is told, “First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day.”

The man does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves on. He checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and many more. He discovers that they are all more or less the same as the German hell. Then he comes to the Malaysian hell and finds that there is a very long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed he asks, “What do they do here?”

He is told, “First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Malaysian devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day.”

“But that is exactly the same as all the other hells - why are there so many people waiting to get in?”

“Because maintenance is so bad that the electric chair does not work, someone has stolen all the nails from the bed, and the devil is a former Government servant, so he comes in, signs the register and then goes to the canteen.”