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KLANG: Accountant Denise Yap will never forget the day she had to rush to KL International Airport to “rescue” her mother’s best friend who had fallen prey to a romance scam.

“Amy is in her 60s with teenage grandchildren and so it is difficult to even imagine that she could fall in love with a purported young foreigner while her husband was still very much in her life,’’ said Yap.

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