A PENANG hairdresser, who owed loan shark money, was jailed for four years on Monday for using counterfeit credit cards.

Aoh Wei Li, 32, was to get a $700 reduction in her debt for every $10,000 worth of merchandise she bought with the cards but was unable to meet the target.

She spent only $1,900 before she was nabbed a day after arriving here on May 6. Accompanied by two men and a woman - all Malaysians - she went shopping immediately after crossing the Causeway at about 2.30pm.

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