{"id":10448,"date":"2009-11-16T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-16T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T05:54:00","slug":"mxit-gives-robbers-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/10448-mxit-gives-robbers-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Mxit gives robbers away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the September house robbery in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, Samantha Gallant&#8217;s three cellphones, a wallet and household items were taken.<\/p>\n<p>No arrest was made until last week when Gallant&#8217;s sister, Kim-Jenna, told her there was a person on MXit using her old number.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant said: &#8220;I then invited myself on that number and chatted to the girl, who said she was in matric. She found me boring so I asked my sister to pretend to be a man and charm her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sister did so, posing as a 21-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the two arranged to meet at a local clothing store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The crime prevention unit was also there to confront the suspect, who said her boyfriend gave her the phone,&#8221; said Gallant.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were later arrested for selling the stolen phone to her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Police also recovered the other phones and the wallet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=202654\"><strong>MXit discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two robbers were arrested after the number of a cellphone they allegedly stole was spotted by its owner on the social networking site Mxit, The Herald Online reported on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}