Lonely hearts being duped by drug syndicates to be carriers

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Lonely hearts being duped by drug syndicates to be carriers

DRUG syndicates are using dating sites to romance unsuspecting men and women and then use them as unwitting drug mules.

Dealers will spend months online pretending to be a fellow lonely heart to win their trust and then ask them to come overseas to meet them.

“They will even offer to fly them over to destinations such as Asia or South America and pay for their accommodation,’’ the Australian Customs Border Protection Service regional director NSW Tim Fitzgerald said.

“They will wine and dine them and totally win their trust. Because they have paid for their flights it makes a lot of people think they genuinely like them.

“They will offer them some gifts or luggage to take back but ask if they can give one piece to a friend. It’s that item which is loaded with drugs.

“Or the gift for a friend is actually stolen property such as jewellery and it’s a way to get it out of the country.’’

They will often get them to accept mail for them from somewhere overseas and ask if they could just redirect it.

The syndicates are using well-known dating sites with the targets both men and woman usually aged 30 to 55.

“This latest scheme targets people’s emotions and shows just how ruthless they are in using innocent people,” Mr Fitzgerald said.

Customs is seeing an increase in cases in Australia where this technique is used.

“The problem then for the person is to convince authorities the drugs or stolen property is not theirs,’’ Mr Fitzgerald said.

“We are investigating a number of incidents where people have unknowingly been used as drug mules. In particular, cases of people bringing packages into Australia or sending packages to Australia for others that are laced with drugs.”

He cited an overseas case as an example of what can happen to people who are too trusting.

“A British woman was flown to Peru to meet someone and then asked if she would take some documents back for them. She was caught at the airport leaving Peru and is now serving seven years jail in Peru.’’

Many of the perpetrators are from West Africa but also from Asia.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...s-to-be-carriers/story-fni0cx12-1226828769971
 
I know how im going to afford my next vacation.. get myself a lonly hearts drug dealer to pay for it all.. then when they hand me that oversized teddy bear filled with shit.. im going to smile and extend my vacation for a few weeks/months in a different city.
 
neversickanymore said:
I know how im going to afford my next vacation.. get myself a lonly hearts drug dealer to pay for it all.. then when they hand me that oversized teddy bear filled with shit.. im going to smile and extend my vacation for a few weeks/months in a different city.
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Bahahah, NSA I had the same thought every time I watched "locked up abroad" You'd just have to give to traffickers a fake passport and then you are home free on your peruvian vacay : D

THIS PREVIOUS SENTENCE IS A WORK OF FICTION DRUG TRAFFICKING IS HARMFUL AND LEADS TO MANY ADDICTIONS DEATHS AND RANDY GOOD TIMES.
 
How gullible can people be. This would all seem very fishy to me from the get go, and honestly when the fuck did people start relying on random ass dating sites to find companionship. This world is so crazy to me.

I would sure get loaded off whatever they gave me if I was following never sicks plan of attack lol.
 
TheRapperGoneBad said:
How gullible can people be. This would all seem very fishy to me from the get go, and honestly when the fuck did people start relying on random ass dating sites to find companionship. This world is so crazy to me.

I would sure get loaded off whatever they gave me if I was following never sicks plan of attack lol.
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Read a heartbreaking story about this totallly world-ignorant genius physics professor who traveled to SA to meet his model girl...still serving years.
 
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North Carolina physics professor in Argentine jail on drug charges

An esteemed physics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is sitting in a jail in Argentina as he fights charges he tried to smuggle drugs out of the country, relatives and U.S. State Department officials said.

Paul Frampton, 68, of Chapel Hill, N.C., was arrested in Buenos Aires on Jan. 23. He is currently being held at Devoto Prison and U.S. consular officers have visited the British-born particle phenomenologist twice since his arrest and have provided appropriate assistance, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told FoxNews.com on Tuesday.

Frampton -- who "absolutely did not" try to smuggle drugs out of the South American county, according to his ex-wife -- told The News & Observer that 2 kilograms of cocaine were cleverly built into a piece of his luggage without his knowledge. The drugs were discovered in his checked bag en route to Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

"I am innocent," Frampton, the school's Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, told the newspaper. "I will not be convicted. It is just that the Argentinean justice system is very slow. There is easily enough evidence that I didn't know there were drugs in the bag, and that will come out, I hope sooner rather than later."

Anne-Marie Frampton, who divorced Frampton in 2008 after 15 years of marriage, told FoxNews.com she has spoken to her former husband recently by phone. She said he declined to discuss details of his arrest, but repeatedly professed his innocence.

"His spirits are quite high, he's hopeful to get out," she said. "Knowing him, he's not guilty. He's no absent-minded professor."

John Bird, a neighbor of Frampton's for two years and a retired attorney, was dumbfounded when he learned of the professor's arrest when informed by FoxNews.com.

"There's nobody in the world more improbable who would smuggle cocaine," Bird told FoxNews.com. "He got setup, I would bet my life on it. It would be contrary to everything in his background."

Frampton, who has authored more than 400 academic papers on topics such as string theory and theoretical cosmology, told The News & Observer the school cut off his pay after he was arrested, leaving him struggling to fund his defense.

"The university has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to help me," Frampton said. "You would expect a university of that caliber would do everything possible to get me out of prison."

Karen Moon, the university's interim news director, confirmed to FoxNews.com that Frampton's $106,835-per-year pay was cut off on March 1. Frampton joined the university in January 1981 as an assistant professor, she said.

Moon also confirmed that the university's senior associate dean for Social Sciences and Global Programs, Jonathan Hartlyn, had been in Buenos Aires recently on a scheduled business trip and later met with a member of the Argentine judiciary. She did not elaborate.

David Eby, a doctoral candidate at the school who has been in contact with Frampton, told The News & Observer that Frampton had been helping him with several peer-reviewed research papers while incarcerated.

"We've been in continuous contact by phone, particularly over the last month, and he has been doing all these things that I'd be depending on him for if he were actually here," Eby told the newspaper. "I find that admirable."

Frampton, for his part, is confident he'll be back stateside come this fall, ready for classes at Chapel Hill.

"I told my chairman that the chances I will be back by August 15 are 99.995 percent, so I told him to put me on the teaching schedule for fall," he told the newspaper.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...-professor-in-argentine-jail-on-drug-charges/
 
neversickanymore said:
I know how im going to afford my next vacation.. get myself a lonly hearts drug dealer to pay for it all.. then when they hand me that oversized teddy bear filled with shit.. im going to smile and extend my vacation for a few weeks/months in a different city.
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Exactly what I was thinking...
 
Not worth it. Imagine being hunted in another country if you stayed longer and tried to use up the drugs. If they found you you may be dead.
 
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