COME ON OVER: As alarm rises over violent crimes linked to online classified websites, police departments across the nation are urging buyers and sellers to use department lobbies and parking lots to safely meet strangers and exchange cash for goods.
SEATTLE: After responding to a Craigslist advertisement for a cheap Toyota, Fred Wallace and his wife took US$5,000 (RM17,792) cash and drove to meet the seller at nightfall at a gated community in California.
Once there, two men attacked and snatched their cash, shot the couple in their late 60s with pepper spray and shoved the wife to the ground.
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