Scams Singapore is a blog designed to identify and broadcast scams, also known as fraud, in Singapore to alert all innocent people. We hope more people will be aware of all the tricksters who are out to cheat your money (or emotion perhaps), so that you can, at least, avoid them.
Although our focus is on scams in Singapore, we are sure that similar scams will occur in other countries as well.
We will also be highlighting scams that take place throughout the world, which includes rent scams, telephone scams, credit card scams, card scams, phone scams and other form of scams. You will be amazed.
Our sources of scam stories are from visitors and our real-life experience. Most people would have encountered scammers but choose to ignore them; we simply spend time to share our experiences with everyone. We also have to depend on news sources from the mainstream media's websites for news.
Please note that some scam stories covered may not be illegal by law, but are subjected to personal views that may be deem as scam to some people but not all.
Don't let your hard-earned money go into the drain. If you were to lose your money to scammers, you might as well donate all of them to the charity.
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This blog is run voluntary without any business plan - all we want is to help people because we have been victimized before as well. If you are interested, you can join us as an author as well, or simply submit your story to us (with all details and evidence if applicable).
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I met a guy a few months ago and he claimed he love me and won my heart within days. In fact, he proposed right after our first meeting and was doing everything a girl dream for. He drove around in luxurious sport cars and claimed he has many businesses. (I guess his story would be different for every case). It wasnt money that made me fell in love with him but the charisma and attentiveness he possess. Whatever it is, for my case, he claimed he bought a house for us and even showed me evidences, etc. Days later he asked for a loan due to cash flow problems. I felt I was the cause of his problem and loan him a huge sum of money. He then disappeared and said he's too ashamed to face anyone. His identity is faked and contact numbers are not registered under his name. He has been doing this for a few years and I believe there are many victims out there. He has been caught recently and now on bail. I am looking for more girls to stand up to seek justice.
ReplyDeleteDescription of him: 33/Chinese/Singaporean, about 176cm, fat with short hair (with long gold fringe) and the most distinctive feature is his two broken front teeth. He is always in tshirt and bermudas and mostly driving a black Nissan.
Please drop me a message if you think you are one of the victims. Contacts will be confidential. May justice prevail.
Bought a ring online for $3.50 and after i transferred the money to the seller, she said she will mail it out.
ReplyDeleteAbout a week later, there was no news and so i texted her.
She then replied saying, 'my suppplier run away already, how much you paid me?' followed by, 'I can't refund you your money'.
I got angry, naturally, and told her i will report her to the police if she doesn't refund me.
She then replied saying, 'I only do meet up for refund . And u have to sign a letter to prove u won't make a police report against us , we will need ur IC photcopied as to prove.'
Her replies were sent only yesterday, 16th march at 8:24pm.
Not only hasn't she refunded me, she has also locked her blog and avoided my calls.
This is an obvious case of fraud.
Her blogshop: shop-4more.blogspot.com
Her mobile Number: 93610101
erm so what should be our next course of action? do we call the police? what can the police do for us are they able to recover this money?
ReplyDeleteOkay, another romance con artist going by the name of Desmond Cliff, attracts Singaporean females. He claims he is Alaskan, been living in California, and outstationed in Sabah, Malaysia. Works for Chase company. Wife died of childbirth, both parents had died, and only brother left. He is in Badoo.com, facebook and also yahoo messenger. From his accent and spelling and words use, one can tell a little later, that he is not American. Americans don't use 'severally', nor say 'back' as 'buk'.. only UKs and Nigerians do that. Be careful. His stories will look so real when it comes to asking you to help him financially. He would tell you how he got help from others first, and then you are his last resort. How he needed just that much left. I was a victim. Glad it wasn't so much but I am still threatening him to repay me back. Learned my lesson with all this wealth of information on the net. Also, everybody in US will be listed in PeopleSearch, so check out first. Be careful out there.
ReplyDeleteHere is a Credit card scam that they are doing. They order from 1800.00 to 5000.00 dollars worth of product off your website by credit card. The billing and shipping address match. As soon as the order it, They want you to ship it immediately, and wear you out daily about getting the product shipped asap. It is obvious now that it was a stolen credit card because 30 days later, you will get a no authorization to purchase against your shopping cart. I was using pay-pal pro processor for my shopping cart which handles credit cards but does not give you any seller protection which I found out later.They only do seller protect on Pay-pal only and not all the time. Once the no authorization hits, pay-pal takes that amount out of your account immediately. They then fight for you to resolve the issue with the credit card company. With out letting the whole world know the outcome, the bottom line is the scammer has the product. You paid for the product and then your account gets hits for the entire amount when the no authorized purchase contacts pay-pal which puts you negative for what ever the amount was. If you send some product out, they tell their buddies and what happen to me is that 5 of them ordered product all before the first no authorization hit which means there was money and product going everywhere and in the end you have no protection on the orders, the product that did get sent you will no longer see and you will be responsible for the money on it. This has been a horrible and very expensive scam that was done to me and all I did was have products to sell on the internet from my website. My site has some very expensive items , so it did not take many items to really rack up the money which has all fallen on me. Now, I can no longer take a order from a legitimate customer because my pay-pal is in the negative. If a order comes in, it just makes my account less negative. Then you would have to try and chase that money down. It has been a nightmare to say the least. A lot of the times they ask if you take credit cards as the first email. Be very careful as these Singapore scammers are probably from Indonesia or Malaysia using freight forward addresses at the airport in Singapore. All the address's were on Airport Rd, Bldg. what ever. BEWARE..
ReplyDeleteThis is similar to http://scams-singapore.blogspot.sg/2012/07/customer-scam-on-e-commerce-website.html
DeleteDear Friends,
ReplyDeleteI just want to make aware all the people who are searching for Rented houses.
There are people in group who will put an Ad. on gumtree or other website for Rented house 2+1 or 3+1. they will ask the Rent lesser then the market price like (1400 - 1700 for 2+1) and (1700 to 1900) for 3+1.
Once people see this less price Ad and call the number which they mention in the Ad. One Lady mostly will pick the phone (some time could be guy also). Lady is of age around 30 -35 blend cut may be chinese. (Name - Melza)
She will arrange the meeting with u and show u the house and will say will paint the house and do all cleaning and other work etc.
She will say they are the Management company(TDAP) and NOT the agent. So we will take care of the house for whole tenure for any demage etc.
Once you are impressed with her talks and less rental. She will ask 2 months deposite, 1 month rent and 1 month management fees. And will ask to deposite money in her comapny account.
She will give u aggreement papar and deposit slip evrything very nicely and will agree for your move in date.
But as your move in date will come near she will say house is not available. And says I will show u another house or move u in another house for time being.
she will keep u showing many houses but will never give u those houses. And you will be stuck because youe move in date is near and u can not find new house also. If u ask ur money she will not agree for refund and if she agrees to refund she will give you a Cheque which will get bounced latar on when u deposite in your bank account. As they will issue you closed account cheque.
Many people they have targeted mostly Indain families who can not run behind them to get money back, they r taking advantage. Also they do not pay the owners and agents from whom they take houses.
Many people are their victim (I am also one of their victim). So I do not want any other people to suffer like me and others who are suffering mental and physical tortour. I compalined to police also but do not know when action will be taken care.
So plssssssssss my friends do not get traped to get Rented house on seeing cheaper Rent. And from any company says they r management company. they are 3-4 people made a gang and doing scam and fraud to innocent people. They do have company office also. do not get impressed seeing their office.
Note : they will give you all the documents very neatly (like agreement, deposit slip and money transfred slip etc.) but, at last these documents will not be helpful. Once money gone its gone.
So, pls get house only through register agents under (CEA) and ask there ID cards. and do meet owner before taking any house.
pls take all the precautions before giving your hard earned money.
Thanks for your attention. And voice out for any fraud or cheating you come accross to safe others.
I am victim of the same agent plesae contact me 0n 98403074
Deletei m also the victim of same agents pls contact me on 92343290
DeleteMe too ...lost please contact 82379027
DeleteS.S.selvam
I am also lost amount..plss contact 90625929
DeleteI am also one of the victim of this so called. TDAP Management. They took around 5000 SGD. and after that that's it. I complained to Police, filed a case against them in Small Claims Tribunal. They did not attend the court. Court passed order to pay back in one month. They didn't pay. I wonder no one can really do anything to them.
ReplyDeleteThese two cheaters are husband and wife and previously they operate under the company Atlas Alliance Pte Ltd.
DeleteDominic Chan Wai Meng and Nangoi Demelza Carmalita
Some of us has file Police report. Please do get in touch with my IO so that the case can be linked together. We would like to see justice done!!!
Mohd Saleh Bin Kassim
Dy. OC Commercial Crime Squad
Jurong Police Division | Singapore Police Force
DID: + 65 63167549 | Fax: +65 63167538 | E-mail: salleh_kassim@spf.gov.sg
Hi , I'm also one of the victim , they took my 6000.
DeleteI want to file case on small claims tribunal .
I went SCT they ask me about there address.
I don't have address.
So what to do?
Anybody have their address?
Thanks
Is anybody go to small claim tribunal ?
ReplyDeleteI went there to file a case against Melza but they ask me her house address ...which I don't have..
Any suggestions ???
Thanks
Lifeisdb@gmail.com
Now Melza gives a fake name called Jenny. She would say the house got problems and tell you that she will refund the money. She will drag it till you cant get a single cent back.
ReplyDeletePls be aware of this. Always seek a housing agent who is CEA registered. Always get their namecard first and check their license no. with CEA. Never pass your cash if they refuse to pass you their namecard or tell you that they forgot to bring.
Do you have Jenny contact no? Thanks.
DeletePlease share your story. Thanks.
DeleteHey want to report a scam by this girl in tagged.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=5979703441
She told me she need money to clear her debts. So she gave me her number and ask me to text her at 83846819. But i feel this maybe a scam and i instead told her i will call her,she say ok i called her. Not even in a minute of time, she pick and we talk for that one minute. She instead say she will text me how much she need, she say she need $360 to clear debts. I knew in a second it was scam. She and me did not see each other before and asked for $360 was too ridiculous. I told i am person exposing scams, she in turn told me she going to report me to the police for harassing her. And say she recorded the call conversation.
Anyone who came across, please reconsider if want to help her in believing her story.
Tdap Management had changed the name to Apen Group Management Services to continue scamming the people who search for rental houses. It even came out in newspapers. They mainly target Indian families. Please be aware of this.
ReplyDeleteThey are a group of liars. Dont rush into making payment after being convinced with a nicely renovated house with cheap rental. They 'll also tell you that if you pay 3 months rental at one shot, it'll be cheaper!
Is anybody got any refund ?
ReplyDeleteI'm planing to go for SCT ...
Is there anybody make complaint against APEN Group? Please share here. It will be useful to the victims like me. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIf any victims need APEN details, please do inform. I can share. Thanks.
ReplyDeletepls do share APEN details. thanks
DeleteHi Can you share the details about APEN. their names and contact numbers. May be you cal also tell us how they cheated you. We want to complain against them to the Police and Minister as well to take immediate action.
Deletepls do share. who is the person represented APEN?
ReplyDeleteHi can you share the APEN details on this blog.
ReplyDeleteAPEN MANAGEMENT SERVICES
ReplyDeleteDirector - SAMUEL DEVADASON JACOBS - HP:91868194
JENNY - HP:82474451
RIANA - HP:92210369
They are totally frauds. Don't believe their single words.
Their Office is in Golden Mile Complex.
I also came to know that Mariana Musa (Riana) will be the one who will appear to collect the advance payment. Jenny will never appear, she will only communicate with you through sms. Riana will show you a somewhat look like a fake namecard in white colour which says she is a client liasion manager, office located at Fook Hai Building. Its completely fake. She is a BIG fraud!
ReplyDeletePlease take note and spread around your friends!!
I am also a victim of APEN, I have filed a police report against them but no action yet (its been 1 week). I am planning to file a case at Small Claims Tribunal soon. I realize that many of us do not want to share our contact details in the WEB, but I think if we are together, we can fight a better case against them.
ReplyDeletePlease send me an email at fightapen@gmail.com if you are victim , with your story and contact numbers.
i gave the wrong email address...please send to fightapennow@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI am also a victim of APEN. I was hoping I could still get my money back until I got to this blog... now i'm losing hope. I found some information about their company in this website:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.psi.gov.sg/NASApp/tmf/TMFServlet?app=MYBIZFILE-DIR-ENTITY&version=&launch=N&S=4bcbee91a96189374b96c238c2994&D=&AN=INBX&searchText=APEN+GROUP+MANAGEMENT+SERVICES&searchBy=name
I found out the new address is in Anson Road next to Tanjong Pagar MRT and not in Golden Mile.
I want to file a complaint but I don't know how to start...
I am also a victim of APEN. I was hoping I could still get my money back until I got to this blog... now i'm losing hope. I found some information about their company in this website:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.psi.gov.sg/NASApp/tmf/TMFServlet?app=MYBIZFILE-DIR-ENTITY&version=&launch=N&S=4bcbee91a96189374b96c238c2994&D=&AN=INBX&searchText=APEN+GROUP+MANAGEMENT+SERVICES&searchBy=name
I found out the new address is in Anson Road next to Tanjong Pagar MRT and not in Golden Mile.
I want to file a complaint but I don't know how to start...
Pls file a police report and case in small claims court. I can send you their business profile if you need it. Please send me an email at fightapennow@gmail.com.
DeleteI have filed a police report against APEN but the IO only advised me to file a case in small claims court. I will file the case soon.Hopefully,I will get a result.
ReplyDeleteYesterday i caught Samuel jacobs along with the police at that time cheque bounce letter didntreached me.i thought joseph deposited the cheque. yesterday he is vacating his house from choa chu kang avenue 3 blk 470 to 501A weelington drive or circle he shifted there.he is big flat indian look like. unfortunately cheque bounce report reachd today only.if anybody finds him pls inform me as well.i lst 5100S$
ReplyDeleteisgowri@gmail.com
WE can group together and we will goto police station for the immediate action.if we fght individually it will take longtime and we will never get the justice against these frauds. i heard from one of the advisor and they told me you people should group together and meet the IO along with the group of victims then the action will be faster.if then also they are not taking action we will goto media to publish about this things and we will create a preasure to get these people and atleast hereafter nobody get cheated like us.
ReplyDeleteanything pls give reply back to isgowri@gmail.com