A show that is based on those who are smuggling illegal items featured a Singaporean woman.

But her accent does not sound like a Singaporean but she holds a Singapore passport. She claims that she is working as a full-time teacher but she was caught with a bag full of cigarettes.

At least a few thousand sticks of cigarettes were found in her luggage. Australia is known for expensive cigarettes. Even more expensive than Singapore.

Here is the video:

A job ad that was posted on MyCareersFuture and states that the salary is $1 a monthly.

As part of MOM’s rule for fair consideration framework, employers must first advertise on MyCareersFuture and fairly consider all candidates before employing S pass workers.

However, this website has been deemed by many job seekers as a waste of time as most people do not even get a response by applying for jobs from there. It is unclear how effective the job portal is.

Editor notes: I used to apply at this website, I applied 100 over roles and I got 0 responses.

The Changi NPC has posted a post on Facebook warning of scammers using Police images in their Whatsapp to cheat unsuspecting people.

Here is what they said:

The Police would like to alert members of the public to a variant of banking-related phishing scams where scammers would pose as officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on messaging applications.

These scammers would misuse publicly available pictures of SPF officers to validate their identity, in order to convince victims that they were under investigations to get them to provide their banking details.

In this variant, the victims received unsolicited calls via WhatsApp from a WhatsApp account with a profile picture showing SPF officers. During the conversation with victims, the scammer would also provide a SPF name card as proof of his identity.

The victims would be informed that their bank accounts had been found to be involved in criminal activity and were frozen.

Under the pretext of facilitating the release of victims’ bank accounts, the scammer would instruct the victim to provide their bank account details, credit or debit card details, and One-Time Passwords (OTPs).

Victims only realised that they had fallen prey to a scam when they received notifications informing them that money had been transferred from their bank accounts to bank accounts unfamiliar to them or when they discovered unknown transactions made using their credit or debit card.

This year, the Police have received at least 200 reports of banking-related phishing scams where SPF officers were impersonated.

The Police would like to emphasize that SPF officers will never request for bank account details and OTPs from members of the public.

Members of the public are advised to take the following precautions when they receive unsolicited calls to surrender money or banking credentials to others in order to avoid criminal investigations:

1. Ignore such calls and the caller’s instructions.

2. No local government agency will demand payment through an undocumented medium like a telephone call or other social messaging platforms, demand that you surrender cash to unnamed persons, or ask you for personal banking information such as your internet banking passwords.

3. Never share your bank account details, credit or debit card details and OTPs with anyone;

4. If in doubt, call ‘999’ or approach a police officer at the Neighbourhood Police Centre near you.

If you have information related to such cases, please call the Police hotline at 1800-255-0000, or submit it online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.

Please dial ‘999’ if you require urgent Police assistance.

For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline at 1800-722-6688.

Join the ‘Spot the Signs. Stop the Crimes’ campaign at www.scamalert.sg/fight by signing up as an advocate to receive up-to-date messages and share them with your family and friends.

Together, we can help stop scams and prevent our loved ones from becoming the next victim.

A netizen shared a story online after they have been tolerating their neighbours for the past 10 years. Imagine hearing this kind of thing at your home at night.

Here is the story:

From morning till night and now almost 2 am. Knocking. Like this since 2011. Already go CMC same thing happen again and again. On off.

Coming to 10 years ( in August this year). If it is a ghost, does a ghost know how to use a hammer & drill? Sometimes we go down and check and light on in their house.

When we call the police and the police knock on their door, the sound will stop but the police said the door is not open ( as sometimes they feedback to us). This is a soft sound sometimes it can be louder than this in the early morning. We ignore when in the afternoon they knock but when it is done during night time who can stand with it for years. It will not stop for a day it will continue for days.

During the public holidays, weekends are much more worse. Not only this knocking sound, drilling sound at 11 pm also ever happened. Not to mention other noises. 2 court orders are not enough for them.

Here is the footage:

A disgruntled netizen, who appears to be a resident from Chin Swee shared how a man purportedly refused to wear a mask despite being told to do so.

The netizen shared that the police and the SDAs and SDEs have all been involved but the man has still not learned his lesson.

It even got to a point where a Sheng Siong outlet was closed for 2 days.

He could be seen in the photos walking inside Sheng Siong without his mask on.

Images source: Yang Ming Facebook via Complaint Singapore

Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar, 35-years-old, was found guilty of one count of assault and one count of using criminal force on his maid, Indian national Vadivel Gowthami.

He was sentenced to one year imprisonment on 17 August.

What happened?

The maid started working for Rajamanickam in April 2018, earning $400 per month.

She works 6 days per week at his Jurong West flat, cleaning and cooking as part of her household chores.

The maid stated that she felt tired every day, complaining to her agent that she wanted to return India.

The agent then told Rajamanickam’s wife about it and the wife then approached the maid, telling her to direct all her complaints to her, not the agent.

Rajamanickam returned home drunk on 18 October 2018.

The maid then went to prepare thosai for him in the kitchen.

She then placed a bowl of “chutney” on the dining table before returning to the kitchen, looking for the spatula that she was using to make the meal.

She then realised that he was holding the spatula next to her, before he then used it to burn her left forearm.

He then left the kitchen while the maid continued cooking before going to bed.

Rajamanickam then came home drunk again the next day, at around 10.30pm, and asked the maid about where is his daughter.

The maid told him that she was at his mother in law’s home, to which he told her to being her home.

The maid then refused because it was past her working hours.

The man then told her: “Since MOM informed you to sleep at 10pm, why are you still awake?”

He then pushed her into her room by pulling her left wrist, before closing the door.

The maid complained to her husband about what happened, and he told her to come back to India.

The maid then informed the police about the incidents on 21 October 2018.