1st Article: Conned into renting same house
Singapore Straits Times, 16 January 2009, Friday HOME
Oki this is the first review i'm doing since .. a very long time.
Apparently there is this rental scam. The conman has alr fled with at least $10,300. Dont know when he's going to strike again.
After reading the article i have a feeling this guy, Ryan is the same guy Mr Choy's client is trying to trace. Both cases aren't exactly the same but they are about the breach of tenancy agreement of at least some misrepresentation and fraud since the company is fake.
Currently this case is whereby the conman has successfully rented off the property in question to a malaysian couple for a two month deposit of $4,300 (2,150 per month) - in cash. The best joke is that the two agents witnessed it. I guess they were victims too. Just that i feel the agents were negligent in checking the reliability of this ryan. he claimed to be the property manager- cum- landlord. and they had run an ownership search that showed he was not one of the owners. how could he have the keys to the hse? wasn't it fishy?
The latter was a Japanese expatriate. She met the malaysian couple at the same house. She had paid $6,000.
Naturally its hard to differentiate who's good. And definitely hard to suspect since even the 2 property agents were intervening. The global economic outlook isn't good. Rental and property prices and soaring super low. He's smart to stike while the iron's hot. but God will catch up with him. Just beware that you check thoroughly the source of the person before committing to close the deal.
Oki this is the first review i'm doing since .. a very long time.
Apparently there is this rental scam. The conman has alr fled with at least $10,300. Dont know when he's going to strike again.
After reading the article i have a feeling this guy, Ryan is the same guy Mr Choy's client is trying to trace. Both cases aren't exactly the same but they are about the breach of tenancy agreement of at least some misrepresentation and fraud since the company is fake.
Currently this case is whereby the conman has successfully rented off the property in question to a malaysian couple for a two month deposit of $4,300 (2,150 per month) - in cash. The best joke is that the two agents witnessed it. I guess they were victims too. Just that i feel the agents were negligent in checking the reliability of this ryan. he claimed to be the property manager- cum- landlord. and they had run an ownership search that showed he was not one of the owners. how could he have the keys to the hse? wasn't it fishy?
The latter was a Japanese expatriate. She met the malaysian couple at the same house. She had paid $6,000.
Naturally its hard to differentiate who's good. And definitely hard to suspect since even the 2 property agents were intervening. The global economic outlook isn't good. Rental and property prices and soaring super low. He's smart to stike while the iron's hot. but God will catch up with him. Just beware that you check thoroughly the source of the person before committing to close the deal.
posted by Ria~ @ 11:06 PM
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