Kota Kinabalu City police chief Asst Comm Habibi Manjinji showing the handphone and currencies recovered from four suspects who assaulted and robbed a 55-year-old who thought he was meeting a woman he met via WeChat.
KOTA KINABALU: A 55-year-old man turned up for a quick date with a woman he had just chatted up on the messaging app WeChat, but it turned out to be the worst first date ever.
Instead, he was bashed up and robbed by four men who had “posed” as the woman online to set him up for a one-to-one meeting near a mall here.
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