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  • Top 10 Crime Zones In Johor Bahru

    Top 10 Crime Zones In Johor Bahru

    With year-end festivities approaching, many Singaporeans like to flock to Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to shop. While the ringgit makes it an attractive lure for Singaporean shoppers, it is always helpful to know where the crime hotspots are, and how to avoid them.

    Shin Min Daily News has compiled a list of the top ten crime zones in Johor Bahru here:

    1. Larkin Bus Terminal

    Many buses from all over Malaysia transit at Larkin Bus Terminal, and very often, the occasional pickpocket can be seen.

    2. Taman Johor Jaya

    There are many shopping malls, eateries and hypermarkets in the northern suburbs of Johor Bahru where tourists like to patronize. The Chinese daily said that on Dec 8, there was a case of snatch theft where robbers on motorcyles opened the door of a car at a traffic light to steal the passenger’s bag.

    3. Taman Sentosa

    According to newspaper reports, motorcycle robbers snatched a package worth 2,000 yuan (S$430) from a customer outside a restaurant in the area on Nov 21. A few days later, a woman lost her handbag to robbers while standing along the same location. Shin Min Daily News said the woman fell and sustained bruises when the bag was pulled from her.

    4. Taman Pelangi

    This residential area with shops, eateries, and nightclubs is also a hot crime spot. On Apr 2, a Singapore-registered car was stolen here.

    5. The petrok kiosk near CIQ

    This petrol kiosk’s proximity to the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) makes it a target for criminals since many Singapore-registered cars frequent the area.

    6. Taman Universiti

    According to online reports, cyclists have tried to break open car doors on Dec 1 and 9.

    7. Taman Century

    A 31-year-old woman was the target of thieves on Nov 23 when she was dragged, kicked, and had her bag stolen in the area.

    8. Stulang Laut

    A Chinese woman was robbed by motorcycle bandits while walking home while another was killed after bandits stabbed the victim in the back.

    9. Taman Molek

    The business district is witness to stolen drain covers, stolen meters and the occasional snatch theft.

    10. Taman Sri Tebrau, Jalan Keris

    The popular dining area is a hotspot for thieves. On Aug 14, a Singaporean couple had parked their Honda near an eatery when it disappeared after 15 minutes.

     

    Source: http://news.asiaone.com

  • PRC Man Jailed 14 Months For Duping Retail Staff

    PRC Man Jailed 14 Months For Duping Retail Staff

    He would go to retail stores and pretend to make a purchase. When the sales staff passed him change, he would kick up a fuss and demand to have only “new notes”.

    While sifting through the notes, he would pocket some of the money with sleight of hand. Over eight days, he repeated the ruse on 10 occasions and filched a total of S$3,344.50, achieving, in the words of the prosecutor, “considerable success in his crime”.

    Today (June 4), Chinese national Zhou Wei, 44, was jailed for 14 months for 10 counts of theft committed from April 13 to 20 this year. The prosecution proceeded with three charges, while the remaining were taken into consideration during his sentencing.

    The court heard that Zhou, who was self-employed in China at the time of his offences, arrived in Singapore on April 13 and immediately started his stealing spree. He struck at retail shops around Orchard Road, Bugis, Upper Cross Street and Changi Airport, duping sales staff of between S$30 and S$1,050 each time. On several occasions, he even went over to the cash register to sieve through stacks of notes on his own. He would pretend to drop the notes and, while the staff bent over to pick them up, swiftly pocket some of the money handed to him earlier.

    The court heard that on one occasion, when retail staff at a cosmetics store in 313 Somerset shopping mall rejected his request to “break” a S$1,000 bill into S$50 notes, he scolded the employee and removed a whole stack of S$50 notes from the cashier tray.

    Pressing for a custodial sentence of six to eight months on each charge proceeded with, deputy public prosecutor Elton Tan said Zhou’s offences had been organised and premeditated, and he had preyed on the trust of retail staff, most of whom were willing to provide him with new notes.

    In mitigation, Zhou, who was unrepresented, said he had realised his mistake and was willing to compensate the “innocent victims”. The offences were committed in desperation, he claimed, as he had lost all his money at the casinos here and needed money for his wife’s medical expenses and son’s school fees. “I had no choice but to do this,” he said.

    In sentencing, district judge Luke Tan noted that there had been “obvious plotting” in Zhou’s offences. “The fact that you kept doing it again and again is something I cannot ignore,” said the judge.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Man Arrested For Suspected Involvement In Loansharking Activities

    Man Arrested For Suspected Involvement In Loansharking Activities

    A 23-year-old man has been arrested for suspected involvement in loansharking activities, said the police on Wednesday (Jun 3).

    Police said they received a report of loanshark harassment on Block 8 Jalan Kukoh, where the area was found to be splashed with paint and vandalised with loanshark-related graffiti.

    Preliminary investigations revealed the suspect was allegedly involved in splashing paint at debtors’ houses and scrawling graffiti at various locations in Singapore. Police seized two mobile phones and a red marker pen, believed to have been used in committing the offences.

    The suspect will be charged in court on Thursday. First-time offenders found guilty of loanshark harassment face up to five years in jail, a fine of between S$5,000 and S$50,000, and between three and six strokes of the cane.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

     

  • 54 Year Old Malay Man Charged For Sexual Attacks On Two Teenage Girls

    54 Year Old Malay Man Charged For Sexual Attacks On Two Teenage Girls

    A man was charged with a string of sex offences on Tuesday for alleged attacks on two teenage girls.

    Mohd Ariffan Mohd Hassan, 54, is accused of two counts of raping a girl and two of molesting her. He is said to have first molested the girl when she was just 15, after confining her in a truck cabin in a forested area of Punggol in March 2009.

    In June the following year he allegedly abused her twice at a flat. The two alleged rapes are said to have taken place in January 2010 and a year later.

    He is also alleged to have molested another victim. who was under 14 at the time, by wrongfully restraining her in the same truck sometime between March and June 2010.

    It is not clear how the victims are related to Ariffan.

    Ariffan is represented by lawyer S. S. Dhillon.

    The prosecution sought four weeks to finalise investigations.

    Bail of $60,000 was offered and his case will be mentioned again on Jan 20.

    If convicted of molesting a person under 14 and causing wrongful restraint, he could be jailed for between three and 10 years.

    The maximum penalty for sexual penetration is 20 years’ jail; and for rape, 20 years and a fine. No caning will be imposed as he is over 50.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • About 800 Local Unsecured IP-Webcams Broadcast LIVE Online

    About 800 Local Unsecured IP-Webcams Broadcast LIVE Online

    Direct, online, LIVE access to 785 private security cameras in Singapore has been made available through insecam.com in an apparent attempt to highlight the “security flaws” of such cameras.

    More than 73,000 security cameras world-wide where users have not changed the default password are displayed on the web.

    785 Singaporean surveillance and web cameras can be freely accessed from the web, and is on display at an American website called insecam.com where prying eyes and perverts can spy in on their neighbors and anyone around the world through web cameras that have been set up with only the default password.

    The security flaws affects Internet connected IP Cameras where users have failed to change the default admin passwords from the ones that come with the products such as admin or admin12345.

    This particular website exposes IP cameras. These are external devices typically bought to keep an eye on valuables, act as a baby monitor, or make up a home or business security system. Some of these devices come with a default password that many users do not change, which is how this site is able to access them.

    Because of that it is therefore possible for anyone with internet access to directly access the cameras and watch live images from people’s houses, living rooms or even worse bedrooms.

    The website Administrator of insecam.com informed Vice that the collection of open cameras were done automatically by scanning IP addresses and in that way found more than 73,000 cameras that are available from more than 100 countries.

    So if you got an IP web camera in your home and you have never changed the original passwords, then change your password now!

    Some of the feeds have since been removed from the site after the security flaw was revealed and while there may be concerns with the creator of the website having breached people’s privacy this is also a good reminder for anyone who may be have an internet webcam to be aware of the danger of leaving the default passwords on their devices.

    More details on the security flaws can be found at Vice.

     

    Source: www.therealsingapore.com