Conned of RM348,000


MIRI: Interacting with Facebook “friends” proved to be a very costly affair for a woman here after she was conned of more than RM348,000 by two such online buddies.

The victim, a middle-aged administrative clerk, said in her police report here yesterday that she got acquainted with a man via Facebook in January.

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