The popular messaging platform WeChat is famous for its proximity chatting feature. And also, prostitutes. Recently, a group of Chinese men in their twenties hacked WeChat and posed as women looking for some love for money.

Unfortunately for them, they were caught. The hackers were arrested at a flat in Jingshan county in Hubei province.

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They posed as prostitutes in Malaysia and Singapore, and the five hackers from central China used software to distort their location to message men in Singapore and Malaysia.

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They also made money. Allegedly: $110,000. They offered their services for $107 for two hours or $214 for an entire night under the impression that they were local prostitutes in the area.

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This is a lesson you'll want to remember: don't message back people you don't know.

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