Scammer Diana Koh jailed

Update: Added more articles and links from various forums and blogs to know more about what netizens think about this scam :) I will probably update this blog with more "goodies" (guidelines, investigations, evidences, etc).

Dear all, the blog is back and with good news too! The scammer, Diana Koh has been jailed for 3 months :) The full report has been published on The Straits Times on 14 Aug 2009. We were also featured in The Straits Times' National Day Special - 44 Things you Like about Singapore and we're representing the category under "blogshop". Though in a negative way, but better than nothing :P Well, too bad there isn't a photo of Diana Koh to shame her. Oh wells! But anyway, most of us already knew isn't it? :D

Via: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_416606.html

Also, here are some links from various blogs and forums discussing about the scam.

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2465690
http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/blogshop_woman_jailed_192351.html
http://www.singaporebrides.com/forumboard/messages/194/1162179.html?1250213709
http://pushcartforum.sg/f21/blogshop-woman-jailed-for-cheating-37-buyers-3446/
http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?p=323056
http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20090814-160999.html
http://anonymousxwrites.blogspot.com/2009/08/ksayuri-aka-diana-koh-blogshop.html
http://twitter.com/#search?q=blogshop%20woman%20jailed

I hope this case serves as a warning to all scammers and deter them from cheating our hard-earned money. Don't ever think that you will never get caught if you cheated just a few dollars from each victim. Praying that the infamous "Roxyger" will get caught too. Watch your backside huh *cough* ;)

With that, I want to thank all the victims and various good samaritans for your help and cooperation! Otherwise, this case wouldn't be finalized that soon :)

天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Justice has a long arm, and the guilty can never escape heaven's justice.

That's the exact situation now ;)

Cheers to everyone and all the best!

The Loopholes

The case started when the highly sorted after Victoria's Secret bags went OOS (Out of Stock) in the website http://www.victoriassecret.com

Thus, imagine our excitement when we were introduced to this blog that sells those bags at cut throat prices?! Yes, the bags are priced at ridiculously low prices at http://k-sayuri.blogspot.com when other blogshops are selling them at more than 300% of the original clearance sale price.

The reason from doing so? The seller is migrating to Australia on 19 March 2009.

http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:1S_Icd8rCUIJ:www.k-sayuri.blogspot.com/+k+sayuri&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=sg


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Sorry, I had to blur out the number to prevent from getting charged for revealing personal details :P Do also note the date of her post. She published this post on 15 March 2009. I only paid her on 18 March 2009 @ 8:54AM GMT+8. It's impossible for her to publish during that period.

I need to paste the cache link as she had deleted her blog on 19 March 2009, the day she left Singapore to Australia which she claimed. Also, someone tried to call Merlinda whom K-sayuri claimed that it's her partner but it kept going through to a permanent engaged tone.


Unfortunately, she lied through her teeth. There is no afternoon flight on 19 March 2009 for Qantas QF6. There's only one flight at 730pm. Is that considered afternoon or evening? Hmm... Before I could ask her any further, she deleted her email address.


A sign of supernatural phenomenon? No. But this was how things get started. What we found out:-

- She will only send out the items through normal mail as she claimed that the mailbox is near her residence
- She will NOT meet up or send by registered mail. Reason as above.
- She will send all of us a picture of the parcel that she is going to post to our residential addresses. Why the trouble?


Do a comparison of the parcels and you will realize that the dents and marks all fall on the same places. You mean parcels can duplicate by themselves? What we speculated:-

- She used the post it note paper to write down our addresses
- Pasted it on the envelope to look as if she is going to send us the parcel
- Took a picture and email it to us for assurance
- Did the same to the rest of the buyers

One of the girls had purchased 5 bags. How could 5 bags possibly be squeezed into the mailbox which is a mere 3 or 4cm gap?! Impossible. With 5 bags, she would still have to drop by the post office to post out the parcel.

I will update if there are more loopholes ;)

The Case

This blog is created to reach out to everyone who have bought from http://k-sayuri.blogspot.com

As of now, the blog has been deleted. But there is the cache version of the blog.

http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:1S_Icd8rCUIJ:www.k-sayuri.blogspot.com/+k+sayuri&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=sg

Never underestimate the power of Google ;) Man, I love this search engine.

Further to our investigations, we have concluded that the seller from K-sayuri is a scammer. Till date there are around 25 buyers who have not received their parcels from K-sayuri. A case of lost mails? I doubt so.

Are you one of them? Send your email correspondences indicating the below details to

- Forward your email correspondences with K-sayuri
- Your type of bank account and bank account number
- Your email address
- Things you bought from her
- Total amount you paid
- Transaction code or reference number for payment. If you paid by ATM, I need a scanned copy of the receipt
- Picture of the parcel that she sent you

Feel free to send any "evidences" you have found pertaining to this case. I will be glad to help everyone with this :)

This person breached our trust and made use of the situation to scam us :( We have to nab this scammer!

Watch out for this space for further updates :)