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Australia jails Malaysian fraudsters

A Malaysian couple have been jailed by a Melbourne court for spending over $100,000 (3.2m baht) using fake credit cards.

Kenny Lim and his wife Sock Lim, both aged 21, were part of an international crime syndicate which used stolen credit card details to create counterfeit cards, the Victorian County Court heard on Thursday.

The couple used false cards to purchase and redeem about $114,500 of Coles supermarket gift cards from December 2010 to January 2012, for which they were paid up to 12% of the face value, Sky News Australia reports.

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  • titch

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    Discussion 1 : 30 Nov 2012 at 16.301

    Lucky they did it in Australia and NOT Thailand.
    2.5 years is a very SOFT sentence for such a lot of money.
    In Thailand they would have probably got 10 years.
    Australian judicial system is very weak compared to Asian countries.

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