WeChat has been called China’s “app for everything,” and it’s getting a reputation in Malaysia as an app for “certain things.” Those things are mostly compromising situations involving, but not limited to, paid sex. Wink.
This week, it’s three Russian women who have been arrested and accused of using the app to offer their sexual services in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
New Straits Times reports that police busted them yesterday following a tip-off, and had been following the women for a few days prior to their arrest.
A hotel room at Plaza Wawasan was raided at 5:10pm Sunday afternoon, and the women were found with two local men, believed to be customers. The women were aged between 18 and 28.
Also seized were three mobile phones, RM2,240 (US$535) in cash, and condoms.
The women had entered Sabah a few days prior on a social visit pass. Local police say this is the first case involving European women they had encountered, although earlier this year two Thai nationals were arrested for soliciting sex using WeChat.
WeChat is developing quite the following in the local sex industry. Last week we told you of a man in Melaka who befriended a woman via the app, and then got took for an RM300 glass of wine. Then there was that no-strings-attached sex meet-up arranged via the app that turned out to actually be extortion. Oh, and that reflexology center that wasn’t actually a reflexology center, where customers could order the girl of their choice with WeChat.
Basically, if you’re looking to get into the sex industry, and you’re not on WeChat – you need to reconsider your business model.
