Another week, another Facebook horror story: this time people claim drug dealers are using Facebook to turn Malaysian women into drug mules. Yes, innocent women turned into unwilling criminals, or dupes thereby:
"It has been happening for quite some time, these girls are being lured by these men on Facebook, these men chat with them, become friends, gain the girls' trust, then use them as drug mules to smuggle narcotics," [Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Riot] told the AFP news agency.
"They even offer to pay for holidays to Japan, China and South America, asking the girls to carry packages, bags or gifts that contain drugs," he added.
This draws together several fear strands: tech corrupting "youth" (teens); tech enabling foreigners to do Bad Things; war on drugs.
"Richard Riot": my heart goes out to the guy, with an awesome name like that.
(thanks to Glen Engel-Cox via Twitter)
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