Man loses RM30,000 in Internet inheritance scam


WHEN technician Thomas Deva received an e-mail from an online chat friend in the United Kingdom informing him of a US$4.5mil inheritance, he chuckled.

Even though he thought the information read like a variation of the Nigerian e-mail scams prevalent in cyberspace, he was overtaken by greed.

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