Crime syndicate targeting Singapore flights: Police

[sqdazz]

lovely discussion this is

[726]

Sounds like my good 'ol Eurail backpacking days, but alas I don't have a bladder as large as yours.

The longest I can go without going to toilet is SIN-LHR (12 hours), and I took it regularly (along with SIN-NRT). Alas, my stomach is not as strong as my bladder. I do normally manage to hold the stomach's content until reaching hotel/home, but then I will get a stomach problems until the next day. This is why I must fast a day before a long flight. I need some kind of deflatine medicine.

Wow, I am getting off-topic.

[CarbonMan]

I have certain security measures: lock the hand-carried bag/luggage as you would do the checked-in luggage. Put it under the seat in front of you and put your leg on top of it or beside it. I always carry it to the toilet if I go, but normally I never go to aircraft's toilet.

Sounds like my good 'ol Eurail backpacking days, but alas I don't have a bladder as large as yours.

[726]

that is less of what they probably spent for the ticket itself. However even before the accident, I have certain security measures: lock the hand-carried bag/luggage as you would do the checked-in luggage. Put it under the seat in front of you and put your leg on top of it or beside it. I always carry it to the toilet if I go, but normally I never go to aircraft's toilet.

[Desert Traveller]

I'm just glad these guys were not operating on my flight from SIN to PEK last June when I left my Bose headset and 1st gen iPod nano on the flight. The SQ people in PEK did a great job of reuniting me with my stuff.

[Kyo]

Agreed, if the airfare costs S$400 each (multiply by 3 to 4 people in the syndicate) and you only stole S$1112, that's only like $88 lost with a chance of getting caught. Also, you have a chance of hitting the jackpot of a larger amount. Wouldn't that be similar to visiting MBS / RWS or Macau, with the chance of hitting jackpot and losing all your money (get caught) but minus the chance of getting prosecuted for a criminal offence?

Even if this were true, you forget they have a return flight, so double the chances of rich pickings (and getting caught)

[cscs1956]

Chinese nationals again ???

I hope these ones get deported and to never grace Singapore ever again! But then there's a billion more to come.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. There is also many SQ FA who are Chinese nationals. Sometime, you can see news Singaporean get caught overseas too.

Use a calculator, you may find the % is much higher for Singaporean as our population is small.

[cscs1956]

So lemme get this straight...when you buy a ticket on SQ, you're likely to be robbed twice: once from SQ and once from the Chinese syndicate?

Thats a good one.

[cscs1956]

Agreed, if the airfare costs S$400 each (multiply by 3 to 4 people in the syndicate) and you only stole S$1112, that's only like $88 lost with a chance of getting caught. Also, you have a chance of hitting the jackpot of a larger amount. Wouldn't that be similar to visiting MBS / RWS or Macau, with the chance of hitting jackpot and losing all your money (get caught) but minus the chance of getting prosecuted for a criminal offence?

Take it this way, $1112 is only to compliment their trip. Who know what they get on other trips. Otherwise these people will not take this kind of risk.

[Guy Betsy]

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Last week Chinese national Fu Xinping was jailed for four weeks for stealing US$800 (S$1,020) and HK$3,000 (S$492) from a fellow Chinese national's bag on a Hong Kong-bound Singapore Airlines flight in April, local media reported.

Singapore Airlines declined to reveal the number of thefts on its flights recently but said cabin crew had been advised to remain vigilant.

Chinese nationals again ???

I hope these ones get deported and to never grace Singapore ever again! But then there's a billion more to come.

[Inflight Sup]

It is prudent to look after your own belongings while traveling.
Theft or otherwise, SQ or BA, ship or train.

Some may think nothing of losing blackberries, since it is all under the company account. There was once a pax who informed the crew that he lost his mobile.
This was during disembarkation.

During the flight, I noticed that he was not very tidy. Having kicked his shoes far apart, newspapers & magazines half sticking out of seat pockets, eye shades on the floor ( 2 pcs ). Along with his brief case opened and a laptop running his movies AND watching the on board selection too. ( must have a very well formed brain )

He told the crew that he believed the phone slipped from his trousers pocket and had gone past the seat cushions and probably below the seat pan. As usual, the entire crew from that J class complex tried to ascertain if indeed the phone was there.

When told that only engineering could do what the crew cannot, he howled away, claiming he had no time to wait as a meeting was scheduled.
I never found out if the phone was ever located.

But that is the point. Look after your belongings.. there might be lots of space around at your seat..but these aircraft seats have an appetite for pens, earrings, phones... and yes, money too.

[lingua101]

Care to elaborate?

I am just speculating.

As fone said

Agreed, if the airfare costs S$400 each (multiply by 3 to 4 people in the syndicate) and you only stole S$1112, that's only like $88 lost with a chance of getting caught.....

So perhaps, stealing in the aircraft is just a side line. They are not flying just to steal. Stealing or not, they still need to be transported to Singapore for something else (bigger??), but along the way (in the plane) if they can do something side line (i.e. pick some laptop, money etc), that will be a bonus.

So they are not purposely buying ticket for stealing.

You get what I mean?

Well I may be wrong......

[globetrekker84]

So lemme get this straight...when you buy a ticket on SQ, you're likely to be robbed twice: once from SQ and once from the Chinese syndicate?

[MegatopLover]

Interesting. Within the last week or so, Mr. Megatop received an internal advisory circulated by the major multi-national that he works for, in which another employee reported having personally witnessed an attempted laptop theft from a bag in an overhead on a flight HKG-SIN (the airline was not identified) while the pax was either sleeping or in the loo (I forget which).

[viraj735]

May be this is just a side line for bigger things?

Care to elaborate?