Activist Gilbert Goh shared a story of an uncle that he met working at a hawker centre, collecting 10 cents entry fee at the entrance of the toilet as part of his job.

He shared that the uncle is earning roughly about $50 a month and struggling to survive.

Some days he sleeps in the streets around Waterloo Street, although it isn’t clear if he is homeless.

Here is the full story:

“This skinny-to-bone elderly helps to look after a public tiolet by collecting 10 cents for every entry once weekly so that he can earn $50/monthly in order to survive.

I saw him once sleeping rough at Waterloo Street and gave him our bedding aid so he can rest better. It’s unsure if he is totally homeless as sometimes they sleep rough for a temporary season due to personal reasons.

He loiters around the hawker centre frequently and usually he is one of our regular food aid recipient whenever we are there.

He would sit at one corner waiting for some stranger to bless him with food or small cash.

He told me that he couldn’t work much nowadays due to his weak heart and he does look very skinny and frail.

We will place him on our $100/monthly elderly support scheme so that he has something to fall back on.

We also encourage readers to buy an extra meal whenever you are eating at a hawker centre patronised by many elders so that you can bless a hungry one out there.

You will surely make their day – including yours!

Do something good for Singapore – a charity movement to alleviate the hardships of displaced elderly Singaporeans.”

Image source: Gilbert Goh on Facebook

According to ICA, they are warning members of a public of an ongoing scam which uses a similar phone as ICA’s SafeTravel.

Members of the public have been getting calls from “+65 6812 5555,” which is identical to ICA’s SafeTravel Enquiries Helpline “6812 5555,” said ICA.

The callers identified themselves as government officials. They accused the receivers of spreading bogus news about COVID-19 or breaching COVID-19 regulations and threatened them with a complaint or a penalty if they did not comply.

This is a scam. Such calls were not made by ICA or any other government agency.

According to ICA. ICA does not call members of the public to ask for money over the phone in any way.

A netizen shared how a girl was selling her clothes on Carousell, when a pervert posed as a buyer and asked her to send her pictures of herself in the crop top that she was selling.

The girl rejected his request and the guy then went MIA.

Here is the story:

“Gaissss…

This guy texted seller while she was listing her items.

Guy then asked if seller cld send him recent pics of her in those clothes before he buys them all.

When she declined, guy disappeared totally.

Creepy much”

Image and video source: @netiizenz on IG

A video was recently shared by a netizen after a man was seen smashing eggs on the floor in a Mini-mart located in Ang Mo Kio.

It is unclear what happened, but the body language of the man seems to be unhappy, the man was seen arguing in the footage before smashing the egg on the floor.

The incident happened at Mini-mart at Block 332, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1

Here is the footage:

According to the Police a husband and wife couple has been jailed for scamming SGD$39.9 million from SkillsFuture.

The man Ng Cheng Kwee faces 17 years of jail while his wife Lee Lai Leng is sentenced to 14 years in jail.

Straits Times reported that the couple bought 11kg of gold with the money.

The couple registered 9 companies and submitted over 8000 applications to receive grants between May and October 2017. They even paid 3 individuals to register the companies on their behalf to hide their names.

The Police said: “The syndicate’s scheme resulted in SSG disbursing approximately $39.9 million of training grants in total to the corporate bank accounts of eight entities,”

Other members who are involved in the scam are facing charges as well.