Long background story so please bare with me. Im 24 years old and I started living alone 6 months ago. I got a security system, it’s a motion sensor in the living room, & an alarm on my door. Both are turned “on” when I leave the condo.

I only turn off the motion when I’m actually inside hence only leaving the door alarm on (relevant later).

Last week, about 6am, I woke up to this blaring sound I could only compare to police sirens/ambulance. I was half asleep thinking “wow they are literally right outside my window, they’re so loud”. But it wasn’t, I gathered myself realizing it was my dang security alarm. I got up & panicked. All I could think of was shutting it off because it was TOO loud & my neighbours are probably annoyed. It was stupid for me not even thinking about the obvious that something tripped my alarm.

Prior to this, I have never heard it go off as when the company offered to test it, I didn’t bother.

The hub was in the living room so I put my password in to stop it. I stood there & realized that the only thing that could’ve tripped it off was the door opening cause the motion sensor isn’t on when I’m inside. But the front door was locked & I panicked thinking “DID SOMEONE LOCK IT FROM THE INSIDE”. I was frozen in fear, barely woke up & checked the whole place. The security company called me as my alarm is linked to them + police.

They asked if I was ok since it indicated my front door was opened this morning. I did another check inside, still couldn’t explain what happened & thought maybe the alarm tripped on accident. I went outside & a neighbour approached me to ask about the sound this morning coming from my place. She said it woke her up so she peeked outside to check. She mentioned she saw our maintenance guy speed walking away from my apt this morning. She had a ring camera, even showed me the video of him going towards my entrance and couple of seconds later, alarms blaring, speeding away from my apt.

This just gave me chills. I only met the guy once, a middle-aged guy & we had only exchanged a convo when he fixed my toilet 3 wks ago. I called my landlord right away to explain what happened so she called the guy. My landlord calls me back & told me the maintenance guy was gonna fix something at a diff apartment that day & he got the apartment wrong so he accidentally entered the mine, tripped my alarm so he locked my door again and left.

Like wtf? He didn’t even bother to let anybody know? What if I didn’t have an alarm system & he proceeded to go inside the apt while I’m sleeping? And at 6am at that? LL said she was sorry. I have some repairs lined up next week & I told her, I’m not comfortable having that maintenance guy around my place. She’s telling me he’s the main guy in our apts & it would be hard for her to contact somebody else but I insisted there’s no repairs happening unless it’s someone else.

Maybe I’m too paranoid or just not used to living in a condo but this whole thing was scary for me, especially watching the video of him speeding away that morning and not telling a soul about it until I inquired.

My husband and I have been married for 13 years, and we have 3 children together all under 10-years-old. We got together less than a year after he and his ex broke up because she was moving to another country for work.

They’d been together through Poly and Uni. I had no indication there were any feelings left over from that relationship, he’d led me to believe he was completely over it by the time we got together. Even after she moved back to our town I never got the idea there was anything still there.

Last night, he went to his friend’s bachelor party, because his friend is marrying my husband’s ex. He got very drunk at the bachelor party, which was a surprise because he’s never been a particularly big drinker. I had to come and pick him up. He rambled drunkenly the entire way home, and at one point mentioned he was depressed his ex was getting married because he still had some hope they might get back together.

He admitted to me that he settled for me after their relationship ended. He said if he’d known she was coming back to town he would have waited for her, and he wished he had waited. He assured me he does like me and he’s happy with me, but he sees her as the one who got away and he regrets that, and if he could go back and do it again he would have waited for her and tried to rekindle the relationship rather than getting together with me. I didn’t say anything, because I knew if I tried to speak I would probably cry.

He either doesn’t remember that conversation (or most of the latter part of the evening for that matter), or is too embarrassed to bring it up. I have no idea where to go from here. My husband basically just admitted he wishes he didn’t marry me, and he only did because he thought he’d never have a chance to get back with his ex.

I love him so much and I thought he felt the same, but it seems I was very much mistaken.

So, I met this guy “adam” 5 months ago, he’s really sweet and loving. he has a 2-year-old kid with his baby mama.

the problem I have is that whenever we plan on going on out for a date, adam’s baby mama would call and demand he take their son to stay with him. They never married so there’s no legal custody arrangements in place. Every time we plan to go out, she’d call and demand that adam come pick their son up to stay with him for hours resulting in our plans being cancelled. I told him his baby mama has been doing this deliberately, he said he noticed too but can not tell her no because if he refuses to take their son, she’d not allow him to see him for a whole month as a punishment. I told adam he has to put an end to this because it’s affecting how our relationship is progressing and he said he’ll try.

Last week, he invited me out for dinner at the restaurant. I was excited because he told me he was already at the restaurant so I thought “his baby mama doesn’t know so she won’t wreck our plans”. I got dressed nicely and did my hair and just took care of myself real good looking forward for some quality time together.

however, when I arrived to the restaurant I saw adam and his son there. I felt rage and disappointment washing over me. adam saw me and waved me to come closer but I turned around and walked out. he followed me outside trying to explain but I decided to go home and the date was obviously cancelled.

later he texted explaining that his baby mama did it again (he said he didn’t know how she figured out we were going out) and demanded he takes their son for the night. He said he didn’t want to “be punished” but neither wanted to cancel our date so he brought his son to the restaurant and I was wrong to turn around and walk out. I told him I was sick of this woman dictating our life and being intentionally hurtful, but he said I ruined our night after he tried to compromise and he didn’t appreciate that.

Maybe I did but I just wanted a quiet dinner for us both and I’m disappointed that he once again let his baby mama bully him into doing what she wanted.

Does that woman have some spy app on his phone?

There are more and more variations of scams out there, here are a few stories shared by victims.

Educate and inform your loved ones so they don’t become a victim.

The Cute Girl

I was approached by a cute girl on telegram who wanted to hire me for a job. She then introduced me to another dude who introduced me to this click for commissions job on the taiger platform. it seemed legitimate at first as there was a company uen number and address. They ran through the whole clicking process, and while i was skeptical of the requirement to deposit money, they assured me by showing me the withdrawal process and actually money to my bank account. I then decided to continue on and try the job, but limiting my first top up to $100. However, as i went along, they required more top ups. I decided to top up so i can get back my original $100.

It escalated to the point where i had deposit a total of $3000. I stopped there and asked the company customer service what i can do, and was informed if i could not complete the clicking assignments within 3 days, I would get sued. At this point, i decided to do a google search to see what i had brought myself into, and found out via scamalert.sg that i may have fallen for a jobs scam. I lodged a police report thereafter based on advice on scamalert.sg

The Delivery Man

I was waiting for my medicine to be couriered to me by NUH. Then I received a message from “SingPost”. The message informed me that a redelivery was needed and I needed to pay $2++. Thinking it was the real SingPost, I clicked on the link which sent to a page. On the top right hand of this page, there was an Apple pay logo. Then I provided the information as requested.

Then a UOB notification came in informing me that there was a  $4000+ transaction made on my credit card. 

That’s when I realised that I fell prey to a phishing scam. A police report was made and I’m trying to resolve the issue with the bank. 

Romeo X Juliet Investment Scam

It started on 21 December 2021. I met this girl named “Biang” on TanTan dating app. We chatted a while on the app before exchanging numbers to continue on WhatsApp. She introduced herself as “ZhongYing 钟颖”. Her number is +60 ******.

We chatted for a few days to understand each other until one day she asked me if I’m interested to invest. She promised me she will guide me along and was very confident every transaction will be successful. She kept on persuading me and sending me a link to install the app.

It’s a APK file, app named “KRX”. The app uses USD only and in order to deposit you will need to contact customer service via WhatsApp. Deposit via account number or pay now. KRX number is +852 ******.

After downloading the app, I created an account. She told me to deposit US $100 equivalent to SG $135 to give it a try. She began persuading me to deposit US $1000/SG $1350. Since I did “earn”, I decided to be greedy and deposit SG $1350. She told me she was willing to “lend” me US $6000, so I took it.

She also told me to message her my KRX account number so she can transfer the US $6000 to me. At this point, I trusted her completely as all the transactions she guided me were successful. I began to deposit more and more money. On the day of Christmas, I decided to withdraw all my money out and return her US $6000 equivalent to SG $8100 as we agree on it. I questioned her about the withdrawal procedure and she answered me if my account is less than the US $20000, I will need to contact customer service and if US $20000 or more, it can be done by yourself on the app.

I contacted the customer service for withdrawal as my account only have around US $15000/over SG $20000. Customer service text me saying it is required to pay the cross border fee, 20% of the total sum and is fully refundable after the withdrawal completes.

She started pestering me to return her US $6000 she lend me or else she will lodge a report on the app and make a police report. I got scared and paid the 20% cross border fee so that I could get all my money back and return her. Customer service messages me saying it takes about 30 minutes to process. About 15 minutes later, I received a message from customer service saying a user report me, therefore the withdrawal process has stopped.

At this point, I know it is all a scam and make a police report. Later that day she messages me to return her money but I ignored her.

In total, I lost $12643 in 3 days. From investment to nightmare. WORST CHRISTMAS EVER.

My girlfriend moved in with me 3 months ago. I have come to hate her nightly routine of baths. She soaks in a tube for an hour before bed. Facemasks candles, even freaking rose petals. Sometimes to meditation music, wine or a book. She’s even got a pillow and a stupid bath tray.

I confronted her about the extra cost of money for the water and gas. I said she was wasteful.

GF STARTS CRYING LIKE A BABY

I didn’t expect her to start crying and complaining that men always want to bring women down and I was being petty just like her father.

I said it cost me extra money for extravagant baths. She said fine she was no longer taking them at my place ever again.

I went away to work and she moved out. She called me petty and controlling. She’s moving back with her mother and sister next week.

I’m just in shock because I thought I had a good point of her running up utilities and she shouldn’t be so extravagant every night before bed. Maybe like once a week or something.

I asked her to come back and compromise but she’s being childish and has been boating on TikTok that she’s doing a valentines day with her mother at her favourite restaurant and her mom bought her bath accessories.

Everyone thinks I was overreacting but she dumped me because I said she took too many baths.

With rental rates increasing over 10% for HDB in 2021, it is expected that landlords might increase the rental rates.

A netizen shared a story on how his landlord demands a 25% increase in their rental rates.

Here is the story:

Hi, we have been renting a place for almost 2 years and would like to renew the lease. When we contact the agent for a renewal with our intention, he said the rent should increase by a minimum of 25%.

We want to negotiate with the landlord for a 20% increase but the agent refuse to budge and said he won’t let the landlord know about our offer at all unless we agree to 25%. Can the agent do this(not inform the landlord about our intention to renew)?? I don’t have contact details of the landlord sadly, and have been liaising with the landlord’s agent directly. So far he has been rude and hard to deal with… but we have no choice. Any advice? Thanks.

Rental facts:

According to 99.co, “There are, no regulations forbidding property agents to act as a landlord’s agent to some clients and as a tenant’s agent to other clients, so long as those clients are seeking deals for separate properties.”

In another word, the agent can be the landlord(secretly) as the rental contract is with the landlord and it does not matter if the landlord is working as an agent as well. Unless the agency has strict rules on this.

Therefore the answer is: “You will need to question the agency to find out, or you will never know”

Netizens pitch in:

• Are you sure the “agent” isn’t the landlord?

• Just saying, 25% is a great deal in this market. But yeah what the agent is doing is wrong. Tbh he can easily find any other tenant willing to pay 30-40% more now if he lists.

• Just move to another place. There’s no hard law saying he cannot do that. It’s just about ethics. You can try feedback to CEA, see if they can help you or not. Good luck

Wow, so me and my friend were talking one night. It was late and we were sorta drunk and were discussing how the dad of another friend is a total DILF (Dad I’d Like to F-).

Recently divorced, fit, stylish… we started talking about older guys in general, what the oldest was we’ve been with etc.

Eventually we dared each other to change our age ranges on Tinder. I changed hers (she’s 22F) from 25-45. She changed mine from 40-50. We were only to change it back after going on a date with someone who is at least 40+.

As my Tinder now solely existed out of older guys, I matched quite quickly. Not all of them were great conversationalists, but I had a good connection with a certain Mark. 46, divorced, two kids, hot as f.

He asked me out on a date to a nice restaurant. Not just drinks or a walk, no no, full on restaurant. Full experience too: starter, main, dessert, drinks. He paid for it all too. I was blown off my feet tbh. Total gentleman the entire night too.

He dropped me off at my place around midnight and I invited him in. We shared another bottle of wine together and started making out.

This is where his attitude changed too and got even better. He was still a gentleman, but a dominant one. He told me what to do, where to do it and how to do it. He put me in all sorts of positions.

My fear had been that older guys had less stamina but oh boy was I wrong! We stayed up untill about 5am and f-ed and fooled around pretty much the entire time off and on. It was incredible! He made sure to show me he was in charge yet paid attention to when I finished too. And I finished more than once.

Needless to say my experience with a full on daddy who’s literally twice my age was a great one! Don’t think I’m changing that maximum age range anytime soon 🙂

For those who want to know: my friend is probably going on a date later this week with a 42y old.