Selamat fooled his captors?

Did Selamat fool his captors? Or are his captors so easily fooled? Under normal circumstances we can laugh it off as another kopitiam talk.

If our people in authority are so easily fooled, my god, what else can happen? Come to think of it, this is nothing new in the little red dot.

Are the people being fooled everyday, I mean look at the money they have been giving away to hot shot charities? A