SINGAPORE - Over the past year, visitors to shopping malls would have seen vending machines filled with plainly packaged boxes and the promise that there are expensive items to be won.
But contrary to their advertising, vending machines dispensing mystery prizes for a fee may not stock any items of "meaningful value", the police said on Monday (Aug 27).
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