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Phone cheat jailed
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
The Straits Times
>A MAN who cheated cabbies of their mobile phones was packed off to prison for 24 months on Thursday.

Goh Swee Tian, 41, who faced 32 charges in all, admitted to seven counts of misappropriating cellphones, and one of cheating a man of $2,200 as rental for his flat which he had no intention of renting.

The court heard that between last July and March this year, he targeted taxi drivers islandwide by using their phones after claiming his celllphone battery was low when he reached his destination.


 
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