The Police have arrested 19 people under the suspicion of being involved in Ponzi related scams. The Police said that 16 males and 3 females between the ages of 18 and 35 were arrested during the operation.
Job Scams
The Police were alerted by several victims after they received unknown messages from various social media claiming high-paying part-time employment.
Scammers would offer victims bogus online jobs that needed them to do simple activities like following social media accounts and social media postings in order to increase their exposure.
This post can include Instagram accounts, product advertisements and many more.
Victims might get unsolicited text messages, WhatsApp messages, or internet advertising promising high-paying part-time affiliate marketing employment in these situations. The con artists would say that by like social media postings and videos, victims would be paid a commission.
How the victims got cheated
After contacting those who are interested in the ‘job’, they would be instructed to signup for various memberships of websites and mobile apps to perform some task which promises great rewards.
There syndicate offers a variety of membership levels, $10 for a low commission membership and few thousand for high commission membership.
Basically, it means: “You pay more for your membership you will earn more”
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is investigating claims about alleged breaches of Covid-19 measures at a dormitory located at Jurong.
They are investigating allegations of a lack of access to medical support as well as the alleged poor quality of food that is being catered.
Officers from the FAST team (Forward Assurance and Support Team) were deployed on 13 October for the investigations.
Mobile clinical teams were also deployed to provide care for the needs of the workers if needed.
MOM also revealed that the police were also deployed to respond to a call for assistance at the dormitory.
According to CNA, the allegations were published in an online Weixin article on Tuesday.
MOM said that there were indeed delays in conveying the affected workers who were infected with Covid-19 to a care facility.
Videos also emerged online and circulating through Whatsapp, showing riot police and Special Operations Command vehicles being activated to the site at Westlte Jalan Tukang dormitory.
This post is about my wife. No no I don’t mean to criticize her like how I don’t love her anymore, or regret marrying her. Its not like that. But something she does is driving me crazy.
We have a son. He’s turning 9 months old. He’s healthy, growing up well, picking up solid food. He even knows tummy time and will do the superman pose. But my wife has this crazy fear of SIDS. Its called sudden infant death syndrome. So crazy that from Day 1 since he was born, she insists that whenever he sleeps, at least 1 of us must be beside him to watch him sleep. To make sure he’s breathing. Yes, whenever he sleeps, day and night.
Because of this, my wife quit her job, started a small online business, so that in the daytime she can work beside the cot to watch him sleep. He sleeps for 20mins, or 1hr, or 2hrs, she will watch him. At night we take turns. We usually put him to bed at 8pm, so from 8pm to 2am, I watch him while she goes sleep, and 2am till morning she takes over the “second shift”. Sometimes if I need to work later she takes my place first.
It is very very tiring, 9months like this. We both look like pandas. Doctor says risk of SIDS is highest up to about 6months, though up to 1 year still have some risk. But its very very small risk. We always put him sleep on his back, and no toys no blanket no pillows in the cot. But my wife is still not satisfied. She says maybe after 18months then we can stop. She says our tiredness is nothing compare to his safety. I really think she is too much.
In the past I used to think I would like to have 2 children, maybe 3 if we can afford. Now after knowing my wife’s crazy pattern, I think 1 is enough. I’m too scared to have another one.
Samantha Tan, the influencer who was allegedly called a “f**k face” and a “f**king d*mb b*tch” by Night Owl Cinematics co founder Sylvia Chan, has come out and responded to the latter’s public apology.
She called her out for her alleged untruths in her apology.
In Chan’s apology, she said that the winner of the reality show NOCOUT would be granted a contract to join them as a full-time content creator.
But Tan debunked it saying that the eight of them allegedly signed the talent contract for 3 years before the filming of the reality show began.
She added that all eight of the contestants were already granted the grand prize before filming even began.
In Chan’s apology, she said that she was frustrated because she found out late into the production of the reality show that Tan had an existing 3-year-bond with a government agency and couldn’t sign a full time contract with NOC.
Tan then debunked it and said that she made it clear to them that she had a government bond and that NOC’s lawyers also reviewed her contract, making sure that it was okay that she had 2 contracts running at the same time.
Tan then added that she won’t say more because she cannot afford a lawsuit with Chan and NOC, and she asked for support for her upcoming gofundme should anything happen.
A man shared his story of how he was persuaded by his schoolmate to join an MLM investment scheme and eventually lost $1,300.
Here is the story
“I will always remember this a*shole named H who made me lose all my savings while working part time to this MLM investment scheme he psycho-ed me to join.
H was from the same class as me back in Poly, and was literally a good for nothing, playing truant and always being late for classes.
I was job hunting one day after graduation before waiting for Army, and H came to know about it.
He texted me over whats app talking about this business and investment opportunity that he chanced upon and would like to share with me on what his investment was.
I agreed to meet up with him in town where his investment office was.
He was 20 minutes late, and apologised to me profusely saying that he had been busy the whole day having meetings with potential investment partners as well as his investment company boss.
He took me up to his investment office located at Marina Bay Financial Centre, and thats where I got bought in by his business and investment talks.
His boss and himself took turns to share with me about the investment company, the products they invested on as well as future investment opportunities to expand their current businesses.
After going on and on, they took out a pen and a paper and presented some egg and chicken story leading to traditional investments and modern day investments.
They added icings to the cake, and told me that I was suitable to be an investment partner and praised me for qualities which I didn’t even know I have, before asking me to join their company which I had to pay $1,300 to join.
They said that this $1,300 is an investment and a commitment to being their affiliate and investment and business partner, as well as an investment to hold a few of their products for our future business.
Looking at the type of lifestyle they have and the fact that they were located at one of the poshest place in Marina Bay, I got tempted by greed and agreed to join them.
They had a training for new affiliates on the following day, and when asked about when can we start our investment proper and make money from the products that the company carried, we were told that we first have to bring in 6 new affiliates under our wing before we can start our business proper.
They then started teaching us on how to prospect for new investment partners to join us and the tactics to use.
Some of the tactics used rung a bell immediately. It was what that a*shole H used to cheat me to come down to meet him, and the talk that they gave me to convince me to join.
I googled a few of the investment bosses and superiors name, and almost all of them came up on the search page under MLM and there were a few stories of similar cases to mine!
Eventually, I left the company as I could not bring myself to go to that level and I will rather forgo the $1,300 and earn it back again instead of scamming my friends to become victims of this whole ‘investment’ scheme.”
