KOTA KINABALU: A housewife here parted with over half a million ringgit to a man she befriended through social media since July this year, in what was believed to be a love scam.
The 47-year-old woman had first come across the person on Facebook before they took their “relationship” to another level by interacting through WhatsApp.
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