A netizen shared how he had a friend who took a loan from his elderly mother, of about $20k and disappeared with her money.
Here is the story:
“I had a friend who took a loan of about $20k from his elderly mother in her 70s.
The $20k was her savings and all she had, but she still loaned it to her son because she wanted to help him with his debts.
He had borrowed money from the loan sharks.
He approached her and asked her for a loan, to which she loaned it to him without even hesitating, giving him all she had.
He promised to return her the money as soon as possible.
But his poor mother later found that her son had fled, he wasn’t even in Singapore anymore.
He had disappeared with his mother’s money, it wasn’t a “loan” at all, it was basically robbery.
We tried calling him and messaging him and going to his house, but he wasn’t there and his phone was unavailable.
Months later, someone told us that he was in Thailand but he had squandered the entire $20k loan and was broke again in Thailand.”
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