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edteam
31-01-2003, 03:18 PM
<font size="+1">Gift company Noel Hampers & Gigfts responds to usjXpress news and offers more tips on how to avert disguised robbers under the pretext of delivering gifts.</font>


Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:24:43 +0800
From: NKL Marketing mktg@noel.com.my
To: Edteam edteam@usj.com.my
Cc: "jeffooi@pc.jaring.my" jeffooi@pc.jaring.my
Subject: Re: Robbers come a-calling with hampers


Dear Editor,

Thank you for your mail. With regards to this issue, we have noticed a trend which spans all the way from Penang to various parts of Klang Valley especially Bandar Utama, TTDI and USJ. In fact, this modus operandi is not new news. It is a normal yearly affair. It affects our business when recipients refuse to come out to sign for their gift. Which is only normal.

The guidelines on your report is sufficient enough to protect the recipients but we wish to add a few tips;

1. Always ask for the delivery order. Robbers will not carry a DO or a complete DO. Check the delivery order to make sure the recipient's information is complete. But of course, this means that their main gates are to be locked always.

2. If the information is correct, it still does not mean they can open the gates. As mentioned on your report, to complet all transactions via the grill door.

3. Never ever allow or invite a driver to move into the house compound to make the delivery. Always carry in your gift personnaly after the drivers left.

4. Never trust a uniform. Uniforms may allow some sort of identity but some of our drivers are on contract basis.

To conclude, we have included some standard operating procedures when delivering gifts to make sure all parties (recipient, sender & us) are protected, and they are;

1. Always show both gift and DO visibily before completing the transaction.

2. Not allowed to enter the recipient's premise unless specifically invited by the recipient.

3. Will advise recipients to not open the grill gate to receive the gift. Signing will be done through the grill gate.

4. Always to place the gift at the front of the gates only.

We hope this will help to shed some light on what we are doing as a service provider in the gifting sector.

Yours sincerely
Patrick Lim
Assistant Business Development Manager
Noel Hampers & Gifts.
Phone 03 7958 5123. Fax 03 7954 4527

Visit our Online Store at www.noel.com.my

jeffooi
05-02-2003, 10:46 AM
UTUSAN ONLINE
Wednesday, February 5, 2003

<font size="+1">Robbers disguised as hamper delivery men foiled</font>

PENANG Feb 4 - A four-man gang, who entered a victim's house in the pretext of delivering hampers and later robbing them, were foiled after police detained two of their members recently.

Timur Laut OCPD SAC 11 Wahab Ahmad said the gang which was active around Georgetown and Barat Daya areas were exposed following the arrest of two men on Thursday - several hours after they broke into a house at Jalan Tembaga, Island Park here.

"Their modus operandi is to disguise as hamper delivery man to visit the victim and when allowed to enter the house they commit the robbery," he told reporters at his office here.

Besides, they also commit burglaries in the afternoon using hydraulic floor jack, steel cutters and crowbars, and police believed the gang was involved in 25 robberies and housebreaking so far.

FULL STORY:
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2003&dt=0205&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Home_News&pg=hn_06.htm

jeffooi
05-02-2003, 10:49 AM
NEW STRAITS TIMES
Wednesday, February 5, 2003

<font size="+1">Hamper Gang: Police on the hunt for remaining members</font>
Aida Ahmad

PENANG, Feb 4: They had the almost perfect plan.

They gained entry into rich homes on the pretext of delivering gifts to rob the occupants.

Police are now looking for remaining members of the "Hamper Gang" following the arrests of four suspects last week.

The suspects, aged between 24 and 40, are believed to have fled the State.

Police got their break when two gang members were nabbed after they broke into a house in Jalan Tembaga on Jan 31.

Two others were picked up at a house in Bukit Gedong the same day.

"We are confident we have busted the gang which had been involved in at least 25 robberies and burglaries," police said today.

Over the past four months, the gang's loot totalled about RM200,000 from robberies reported in the affluent neigbourhoods of George Town, Balik Pulau and Butterworth.

Police seized several tools believed to be used by the gang for housebreaking, including a hydraulic jack and a crowbar.

Also recovered were jewellery, several handphones, identity cards, a Chinese New Year hamper and a box of mandarin oranges.

Police also recovered newspaper clippings of the gang's robberies.

FULL STORY:
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/Frontpage/20030205073533/Article/

jeffooi
05-02-2003, 10:52 AM
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