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New Tech meets Old Biz

Gadget-hungry pimps cashing in on technology?

Hong Kong - Pimps in Hong Kong are luring customers by sending hi-tech
digital images of prostitutes to potential clients via their
cellphones, a news report said on Tuesday.

The hustlers are exploiting the latest cellphone technology to beam
lurid photographs of girls to the latest colour-screen handsets,
according to the South China Morning Post.

Police are investigating the phenomenon and have been checking the
cellphones of pimps arrested in raids in the city's red light
districts, according to the newspaper. No one has so far been arrested
for soliciting by cellphone, however.

A police source quoted by the newspaper said: "The first to maximise
the technology are the pimps in the red light area. Before they make
the deal they show the client a photo preview on the cellphone."

Hong Kong residents have one of the highest rates of cellphone
ownership in the world with more than eight out of 10 of the
territory's 6,8 million population owning a handset. New-style phones
with colour screens are increasingly popular in the gadget-hungry city.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=126&art_id=qw1054612803101B252&set_id=1

Posted by Kadrey at June 11, 2003 08:26 PM

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