Singapore No. 1 bully (criminal)?

[Jman888]

S'porean cyber stalker admits to harassing US singer for six years

Published on Dec 04, 2013

By Khushwant Singh

AMERICAN singer Leandrea Ramm's life was turned upside down after she was featured in 2005 on Anderson Cooper's 360 programme on CNN. It was seen by Colin Mak Yew Loong, a 38-year-old Singaporean, and he harassed her for the next six years.

They had never met but he contacted her, promising to further her music career. Initially, she was grateful but when she stopped responding to him, he started sending her threatening e-mail messages and telephone calls. It continued right up to 2011 when US authorities sought the help of the Singapore police.

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty and was convicted for criminal intimidation, harassment, criminal trespass and theft. He admitted to sending 31 threatening e-mail messages to Ms Ramm, 29, and her boyfriend.

A district court also heard that Mak went on to harass two other foreign musicians.

 

 

Photographer sent threatening e-mails

(10-03 18:42)

A photographer was sent to jail for eight weeks, suspended for two years, after being convicted of sending threatening e-mails to a jewel trader who turned down his business proposal.

Colin Mak Yew Loong, 33, a Singaporean, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal intimation before Acting Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai in Eastern Magistrates' Court.

The prosecution said Mak became acquaintted with the victim in a bar in Lan Kwai Fong in January. The accused later sent an e-mail proposing to take photos of her jewels for a fee of HK$60,000.

After the victim ignored his email, Mak repeatedly sent her e-mails threatening to harm her. Mak was arrested after police traced his internet protocol address.

 

 

Arms dealer jailed for 18 months over planned Syrian deal

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Singapore - A convicted arms dealer was sentenced to 18 months in jail for conspiring to trade in strategic goods bound for Syria, news reports said Wednesday.

BR Chaandrran, 46, was found to have schemed with another man last year to deliver 20,000 assault rifles, valued at 3.4 million US dollars, to Syria, when he was not registered to broker such goods.

He is out on 50,000 Singapore dollars (32,000 US dollars) bail, pending his appeal against the conviction and sentence handed down Tuesday, The Straits Times said.

Chaandrran was the operations manager of Dannhauser International, which trades in military equipment and provides contract management services.

Colin Mak Yew Loong, the 30-year-old managing director of Swedish- based Protec Consulting, is serving a nine-month jail term for his role.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Cheow Han pointed to the links between illicit arms trafficking and trans-border organized crime and terrorism, the report said. Before District Judge Jasvender Kaur, Lee cited the growing international concern that illicitly traded strategic goods and weapons might fall into the wrong hands.

Lee described Chaandrran as the 'brains' behind the plan to pass off the rifles as 'industrial machinery.'

Chaandrran stood to gain a profit of 200 thousand US dollars if the deal went through, Lee said.

 

 

Edited December 4, 2013 by Jman888

[Myxilplix]

Ultimate Keyboard Warrior siol

[ChickenMob]

This proves that we Singaporeans also got talent leh.....mai siao siao

 

from professional staller to Arms dealer...............

[Hansumgoku]

wow talents from Singapore ;p

[1fast1]

Don't know if No. 1 criminal. But certainly No. 1 criminal multitasker.

[Rainbowbiatch]

undaunted spirit.

[1fast1]

What's the date of that middle report, though? The one about the jewel dealer. Going by this guy's age, it should be 5 years old.

[Myxilplix]

From reading a few articles about this case and this keyboard warrior guy, I have learnt some things (dunno true or not lah):

 

1. She reported to SPF but was ignored. Allegedly.

2. Some security-type fellow and minor politician came to learn about her case and did his own investigation. Allegedly.

3. He used his Secret Service contacts to help push when he was providing all the information he gathered to SPF, so SPF lan lan have to acknowledge. Allegedly.

4. US Secret Service has training facility in Singapore, allegedly.

5. After SPF was provided with his data/information, they picked up the Ultimate Keyboard Warrior.

[Count-Bracula]

Never say die attitude but for the wrong purposes. Put us on the podium again

[Jman888]

What's the date of that middle report, though? The one about the jewel dealer. Going by this guy's age, it should be 5 years old.

 

 

where did you get the 5 years old from?

 

it came out from google and the news was from HK, maybe there is another Colin Mak Yew Loong from Singapore

[1fast1]

 

 

where did you get the 5 years old from?

 

it came out from google and the news was from HK, maybe there is another Colin Mak Yew Loong from Singapore

 

I'm saying that if the latest report on the singer-stalking (that came out this year) had his age at 38, then the middle report that had his age at 33 should be 5 years old. Right?

 

The final report on the arms dealing is consistent with a current age of 38 - it came out in 2006, about 7 years ago, and he was reported as being 30. Close enough.

 

If the middle report is breaking news, it's most probably another guy, unless they got the age wrong.

[Jman888]

S'porean who admitted to cyber-stalking American singer and others jailed 3 years, fine

Published on Dec 20, 2013 By Ian Poh

The Singaporean who made the life of American singer Leandra Ramm an ordeal after cyber-stalking her for six years was sentenced to three years jail on Friday.

Colin Mak Yew Loong, 38, had pleaded guilty in court on Dec 4 to sending 31 e-mail messages threatening to kill or harm her.

The prosecution had previously asked for a "global sentence" of between three and four years in jail as Mak had committed a total of 42 offences over a long period of time. But it proceeded on 17 charges, 14 of which were for criminal intimidation.

It all started after he saw the 29-year-old perform on CNN in 2005. They never met, but on one occasion in August 2010, he sent her six threats in one day. The harassment continued until 2011, when the US authorities sought the help of the police here to curb his actions.

 

 

 

cyber stalking is more serious than his arm dealing role

[Carnoob]

This proves that we Singaporeans also got talent leh.....mai siao siao

 

from professional staller to Arms dealer...............

 

I think it's the other way from Arms dealer degrades to professional stalker hahaa

[Toothiewabbit]

 

 

 

cyber stalking is more serious than his arm dealing role

 

Cos' his stalking includes direct threats to harm the girl girl.

[Myxilplix]

So that's the face of the Ultimate Keyboard Warrior.

 

Funny, I was expecting someone a little more...bui bui.

[Carmour]

This is a story about fear, humiliation, anger, and jealousy, all brought together because cyberspace made it possible. But most of all, this is a tale of revenge.

The six year ordeal of singer and performer Leandra Ramm is being documented this month is a wave of publicity that will shed new light on a disturbing question: what can be done when someone uses the power of technology to ruin your reputation and shatter your life?

This story is being told through a new book, Stalking A Diva, that is just arriving in bookstores now, followed by a TV segment on the Lifetime Network’s’ series “My Life is a Lifetime Movie” to be broadcast on November 28. Ramm’s story is guaranteed to send chills down your spine because the uncomfortable truth is that her experience could happen to any one of us, right now.

Back in 2005, Ramm was an aspiring young singerwhose appearance on Anderson Cooper’s 360 program was broadcast around the world on CNN, including much of Asia. It was viewed in Singapore by a man who developed a romantic interest in the attractive young woman. His name was Colin Mak.

Posing as the director of a prestigious music festival, Mak made contact with Ramm, offering to help further her career by booking international singing engagements. But Mak was in fact a convicted arms dealer who, when he discovered that the singer had a boyfriend, became extremely jealous. That’s when things began to go horribly bad for Leandra Ramm.

It began with unsolicited love letters to Ramm from Mak that evolved into thousands of email death threats, promising all kinds of bodily harm to her and members of her family. This progressed to bomb threats at locations where Ramm was scheduled to perform and blog posts accusing her of prostitution and other crimes. Theater companies were beginning to think twice about hiring her, especially since she was requiring police protection wherever she performed.

Ramm sought help from the New York Police Department, the FBI and even the United Nations. But because her stalker was not a U.S. citizen, there was no action to be taken. Mak had become an international cyberstalking terrorist and there was nothing that Ramm could do about it.

In desperation, she turned to two men for help. One was an attorney, Monroe Mann, who was sympathetic to her plight and agreed to do what he could to help. The other was A.J. Fardella.

As a director at Black Diamond Data, Fardella specializes in computer forensics. He is also a planning commissioner for the city of Pittsburg, California and one of the key leaders in Project Vigilant, a group that has been extensively covered by this column in the past. When Fardella first met Ramm, he was profoundly moved by the woman’s plight. “It was a woman who had been through six years of hell,” Fardella recalls.

By now, Ramm had collected a mountain of emails and other computer evidence of Mak’s stalking. Drawing on his extensive contacts in law enforcement, specifically in the Secret Service through theSan Francisco Electronic Crimes Task Force, Fardella delivered the whole package to a colleague in the agency. The Secret Service began talking about Ramm’s cyberstalking problem with the Singapore police. In July of 2011, Mak was arrested.

Fardella has not escaped Mak’s cyber attacks either. Although Google has removed Mak’s previous blog posts about Ramm, there is one particularly nasty blog post about the data forensics expert that remains. When asked about why he doesn’t have it taken down, Fardella just shrugs. “I consider it a badge of honor,” he says.

Mak was released from Singapore jail after just two months and has still not been charged with a crime. He is under a lifetime restraining order forbidding any form of communication with Ramm. Mak must report to the local authorities every Monday and cannot leave the country. According to Fardella, Singapore now has a female attorney general “who wants to throw the book at Mak,” so there could still be more legal action to come.

What may have finally led to action by authorities in Singapore is the need to “save face,” to salvage something positive from what has been hugely shameful behavior by one of its citizens. With a book, media coverage, and a nationally broadcast TV program this month, Leandra Ramm may indeed be getting the ultimate revenge. For Colin Mak, there will be no “saving face” for it is his reputation that is now ruined and deservedly so.

But the troubling specter of how one individual can so thoroughly disrupt a person’s life by exploiting cyber technology remains the most important lesson in this whole affair. “Cybercrime isn’t a ticking time bomb anymore,” says Fardella. “The bomb has gone off.”

[Knoobie]

he sure got passion for doing the wrong stuff.