Jail for woman in S’pore who cheated intellectually disabled man out of over S$39,000 in love scam


Seah, 60, pleaded guilty to two cheating charges and was sentenced to a year in jail. — KELVIN CHNG/The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: A masseuse, posing as another woman, contacted her client who was mildly intellectually disabled over the phone and duped him into giving her S$39,010 (RM126,381) over 159 occasions.

On Jan 31, Seah Bee Leng, 60, pleaded guilty to two cheating charges and was sentenced to a year in jail.

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