A food delivery rider shared an experience he had while sending an order.
He was sending an order to an undisclosed location (presumably a HDB unit).
When he got out of the lift, he was greeted by the sight of many statues of deities.
He said that he thought he entered a temple once the lift doors opened.
Images source: Darryl Lu via Foodpanda Delivery Riders (Singapore) Facebook
An Indian girl shared that she was racially harassed by an uncle on the bus, who pulled his mask down and wasn’t wearing it properly.
The uncle thought she was Malay and made discriminatory remarks about her not covering up (she’s actually Indian).
He also thought she was Malaysian and insulted her nationality (she’s actually Singaporean).
“Hi, I experienced racial discrimination on the bus yesterday… this is the first time anything like this has happened to me before and I just want to spread awareness.
Please note : The last picture in this video is the picture that made the man angry. He was sitting across from me and he kept looking at me which I don’t know why but then he came to sit behind me and that was when he saw that I took the picture of the building.
His mask was pulled down and he begin to talk on the phone really loudly and apparently he was really pissed at the fact that I was taking pictures, which FYI it was just that one photo I took and I still remember the exact words he was saying (towards the end of the video you could actually hear him say “mind your own business lah…. don’t offend people why want to take photos of this kind of thing”)
I wish I had taken a video of what he said before I alighted but these were some of it:
“I don’t understand why must take photos it’s so stupid and on top of that it’s a f**king women you know”.
“All these Malaysians come to singapore think they so big but who TF do they think they are” (FYI I’ve been living in singapore my WHOLE life and so did generations and generations of my family).
“At the end of the day, they are all just slaves working under us”.
“Especially all this Malay girls ah don’t know how to cover up properly don’t know how to go around with respect” (FYI I’m actually Indian so I don’t know why he’s assuming things).
The part that really me mad was that not only was he being discriminatory but he was also being a sexist by saying “woman you know” “what’s worse is that it’s a woman” as if being a women means I can’t take photos?
Instead of telling me he goes on to talk really loud on the phone and I did want to say something in the heat of the moment but I knew it would just escalate things further and I did not want to give him the satisfaction that I knew he was talking about me.
Luckily, my stop was next so I bit my tongue and got of the bus but what was even more childish was that when the bus was leaving he straight up pointed the middle finger towards me.
All my years of living in Singapore I have never once felt like an outsider nor have I been racially discriminated this badly (other than of course a few name calling in primary school which I could take) but I’ve always had many Chinese and Malay friends who made me feel part of their family and I was so thankful to be part of this community.
After that incident yesterday, the rest of the 1hr journey back home in train was just filled with tears as I have never felt so alone or vulnerable in the place that I grew up in. As a 17 year old who just wanted to sit in a bus and just simply enjoy, I don’t know what made me a grown man’s target for him to think that he could just destroy someone like that.”
Image and video source: @adminsgfollowsall on IG
A video emerged online showing an uncle refusing to wear his mask properly and insulting the other passengers on board the MRT when they asked him to do so.
The entire incident was captured by a netizen named Sakura, who described the details of the incident.
She said:
“June 15, 2021 (Tuesday) – Around 7:53 pm, on the East West Line (EW) MRT heading to the west, a man did not wear his mask properly, and also insulted passengers who reminded him to wear mask.
Tuesday night, on the EW line mrt to the west, starting from Commonwealth/Buona Vista station, I noticed a man wearing a grey shirt and black trousers talked loudly in the train (Door14). He did not wear his mask over his nose and mouth at all times, it covered only his chin. He mocked passengers around as ”Phubber” (Phone + snubber = Phubber) and judged them, loudly. Although there were some passengers reminded him to put on the mask, he turned a deaf ear and still went his own way. I have reached my tolerance limit, so started recording his evil deed from Dover station, which happened to record him humiliating other passengers.
From the 1-minute video, a male passenger reminded him to put on the mask in English, and he responded in Chinese, “What did you say?” After the male passenger kept silent due to the language barrier, he told him “Chinese should speak Mandarin” in a contemptuous tone, and then lowered the mask that he had not worn properly, let him to look at his face, and asked him provocatively whether he is a policeman or police dog. In the end, he even threatened him “want fight?”. The man was obviously making use of the male passenger’s weakness in Chinese to insult him.
The man left Clementi station at about 7:54pm. I complained to the female staff outside Door14 of the incident at about 7.55pm. The female staff said that the man goes in and out of Clementi station every day without wearing mask properly. I also asked her for a proper complaint channel, and decided to report the arrogant man, and will never tolerate the act of humiliating others.”
Image and video source: Sakura via @wakeupsingapore on IG
An errant cyclist was seen hogging the middle lane of the road.
He was cycling in a group of 5 but he was the only one hogging the middle lane and refusing to give way to a vehicle.
The incident happened along West Coast Highway yesterday (19 June)
Image and video source: ROADS.sg on Facebook
A man was arrested at Balestier, at least 5-6 Police officers were seen on the scene.
The man resisted arrest and even laugh at the Police for not being able to control him.
He was holding on to one of the Police officers and needed help from another officer to release his grip. The incident happened near 246 Balestier Rd.
A netizen shared a crazy story of a Hougang landlord
Here is the story:
8.30pm on April 30th
My sister went to Blk416 Hougang Ave 1x 6th Floor 1xx8 to see the house, and it was not bad when she entered and the male homeowner seems good. But after the homeowner was told that she will be working from home he wants to charge an additional $30/week for the electricity and water usage.
At that time, I counted three times with a one-month rent and a deposit of $1160 before giving him the cash. After giving it to his sister, he said that the payment is short of $100.
My sister wanted to forget it, and paid him an extra $100, but when she told me, I knew it was impossible, and I tried to argue with him, but he reluctantly repaid my sister $50
1.Used CCTV to monitor the number of times my sister goes to the toilet, the landlord said that she is only allowed to go to the toilet every 2-3 hours as water bills are high.
2. My sister is not allowed to leave the room if there is someone outside and she will not even be allowed to use the toilet in this period
3. If she goes to the toilet the rental fee will increase
4. Threaten the tenant not to use too much water and electricity not happy because saw her press 1 more button on the washing machine
5. Use CCTV to monitor the activity of the tenant see she use toilet how many times
June 18 at 4 p.m.
The owner suddenly knocked on the door and knocked loudly to confront my sister. He told her to go to the kitchen and scolded her for wasting water and electricity.
During the dispute, the homeowner also brought a piece of paper to write down how many liters of water was spent on one flush and how much water she had to use for 1 wash.
The argument between the tenant and the ridiculous landlord argued so badly that the Police was called to evict the tenant out of the unit.
However, the tenant did not intend to move out right away. The Police help negotiate and they finally agreed to leave in 3 days.
On the day of moving out, the landloard refuse to reutrn the deposit.
He claimed that the tenant broke the rules of the house and was not entilted to any return of deposit.
Singaporean man takes pet crab out for a walk, netizens who captured the photo posted it on Facebook.
The man was seen having a nylon rope tied to the crab and working it down the pavement.
Some netizens commented that this is a publicity stunt to attract customers to a famous seafood restaurant. Some establishments believed that walking the crab can make it more “meaty”.
House of seafood posted similar photos 2 days ago on Facebook for walking their crabs at Punggol Beach
A netizen shared his story about how his girlfriend cheated with his childhood friend for the sake of money.
“I come from an average family drawing an average salary. Enough to eat and have some entertainment but probably not enough to go for expensive holidays nor can I afford branded goods.
I have a girlfriend(should call her ex-GF), Initially, she doesn’t mind that I cant give her a life of luxury and said that my personality and upbringing is what attracted her. However, just over a year into the relationship she started to change and started comparing her friend’s boyfriend saying that her friends would often receive lavish gifts from their boyfriends. Which made me feel really bad and useless.
I have a childhood friend, let’s just say his name is “Kevin”. He comes from a rich family and sometimes would join me and my girlfriend for a drink or dinner.
A week ago was my GF’s birthday and I bought her a smartwatch which is something she always wanted. I help set it up for her and she was happy with it. 2 days ago she was at my home and took off her watch and charge it in front of me where my computer is.
I was doing work on my computer while she was playing her phone on the bed, the smartwatch lights up and I saw Kevin’s name and I was surprised. There was even a preview of the message saying: “Come my home tonight got u another bag”.
I choose the latter, I called Kevin and asked if he was free to come over to my house for a drink. He said that he has plans tonight and cannot make it. Then I asked my girlfriend if she was staying the night. She told me that “I going home my mother got cook dinner”.
My girlfriend left my home shortly after, I knew that my girlfriend will take the MRT because Kevin’s house is directly behind an MRT station, I took a cab to his place before my girlfriend reached and “camped” outside his unit near the staircase area.
Within a span of 10 minutes, My girlfriend appeared and Kevin open his door and gave my girlfriend a hug and a kiss when she arrived.
My girlfriend claimed that it is a misunderstanding and started crying, Kevin looked down and could not speak anything and neither did he defend his actions.
My girlfriend then finally admitted and told me that she did it with him in exchange for branded bags. I told her that is good enough of an answer for me and told her “goodbye”.
Just last night, a female friend of my now ex-GF contacted me and said that she found out that the bags were counterfeit and my ex has regretted her actions and wishes to meet me and hope that I can forgive her.
If she can give her body for a bag, she can do it again. Never will I trust this woman again.
I lost a very good friend and lost my girlfriend. But I’m glad I got something in return, the truth of who they really are.”
A comic book company, Toast Comics has created 2 versions of the plush toys. The plush toys are the infamous characters who recently gone viral for their behaviour in the public.
Toast Comics specilize in dark humor and sarcasm.
Please support them if you like their work.
You can find some of their content on https://www.facebook.com/toastcomics
A story was shared online by Facebook user Danica Alena Choo saying that she was made to pay over $10,000 worth of credit card bills despite not using the cards.
OTP FRAUD
So this happened months ago, in January 2021, and has dragged on long enough to wear us out.At this point, we are helpless and have no idea how to move forward. It seems the last resort is to refer the case for adjudication and risk DBS retracting their offer of waiving 30% of the amount (and having to pay a 5-figure sum).Here’s what happened:Sometime in early January 2021,
I tried using my supplementary credit card to make a purchase online but the transaction could not go through. I thought there was a glitch and simply used another card to make the purchase. A few days later, I tried using the same card and was told that my card was declined.
Curious, I called DBS to find out why I hadn’t been able to use my card. It was then that I found out that I had almost exceeded the credit limit. Baffled, I asked for details of the transactions charged to my card since I only recalled using it for some items we needed for our new home. To my horror, I learnt that a total of SEVEN consecutive transactions were charged to my card, each amounting to approximately $1,400.
The total damage was $10,150. Note that we had not received the hard copy of our credit card statement then. I informed the staff that I most definitely did not carry out these transactions and requested that they look into the case. Unfortunately, the bank told us that there is no way they are able to refund the money because these were secure transactions, made with OTP.But guess what?
I did NOT receive any OTP for these seven transactions at all. The bank claimed I could have keyed in the OTP by mistake. But seven times?! Did the bank seriously think I would be tricked into giving the OTP to a stranger seven times? Long story short, we are liable for the charges.We were advised to lodge a police report so the police could investigate the matter, and were told that an investigation could help with our request for a refund. Imagine being told that there’s nothing you can do but to pay $10,150. I was heavily pregnant then, and was sooo flustered 
We rushed to the nearest police station to lodge a police report.So these seven transactions were made to TransferWise (now Wise), a website for monetary transfers abroad. Neither of us knew of TransferWise until this incident. The following morning, I called TransferWise to see if there was anything they could do.
The transactions had gone through and there was no way they could reverse the transactions. By the time I called, they had suspended the account used to process these transactions. I was told that the bank had brought to their attention that the account could possibly have been used in a case of fraud, so they acted on the bank’s suspicion and suspended the account. A check showed that the transactions were wired to a Malaysian company, CWP Global Enterprise. The transactions were transferred and processed in ringgit.
I then called the police officer assigned to our case and told her of what I had learnt and was asked if I could make a trip down to the station to add these details to my statement.The police has since concluded the case with no favourable outcome. We were told that there were no more leads so her superior advised her to conclude the case. She interviewed the TransferWise account user and found that it was a case of identity theft. Someone had used this person’s personal details to create an account on TransferWise.
If we had done nothing, the amount would have snowballed in no time. So I told hubby to go to our MP to see if he could get the bank to waive the interest for us. Days after Ethan’s birth, N went to see our MP, Mr Gan Kim Yong. His assistant helped send an email to the Monetary Authority Of Singapore and DBS. The following day (yes, all it took was a day), a manager from DBS called N and told him that the bank would waive the interest for us while the investigation was ongoing. How efficient.Fast forward today.
We acted on the officer’s recommendation to bring our case to FIDReC, an independent and impartial alternative dispute resolution institution. The result? The bank explained that all the disputed transactions were deemed authorised by me since they could only go through with SMS OTPs. There were apparently SMS alerts sent to my mobile number once each disputed transaction was completed. At this point, I wish to reiterate that I did NOT receive a single SMS OTP or alert regarding any of the seven transactions, so help me God.
We are clearly victims of a fraud case. What do we do now? StarHub says they are only able to track incoming and outgoing calls, and outgoing messages — basically, “anything chargeable”, according to the customer service representative I spoke with. I asked if receipts of text messages are recorded in their system, and was told that Singapore Police Force would have to approach StarHub HQ for access to this data (still unsure at this point if they even have this data). This was communicated to the police officer but as I have said above, there is no favourable outcome — to be honest, I am not sure if she tried. Has any of you experienced something similar? Or do you know of someone who experienced something similar? If it’s not too much trouble, please help to share this post. Thank you 
EDIT: We did try to escalate the case to a higher authority i.e. the head of credit cards. Was told he would get the frauds team to look into the case, and that they’ve not encountered bypassing of OTP before. The frauds team concluded it isn’t fraud because the transactions are “secure with OTP”.
I realised I didn’t mention that a total of 10 transactions were made and 7 went through because DBS only started to reject after the 7th transaction and sent a message or email to Wise warning of possible fraudulent activity. Yet they are telling me this isn’t fraud This, I found out through Wise, not DBS. The bank did not inform me about the attempt to charge 10 transactions to my card.
Join us on Telegram for instant news.
© Newspaper WordPress Theme by TagDiv