{"id":69658,"date":"2026-07-18T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69658"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:42:09","slug":"man-to-be-charged-with-cheating-victim-of-over-86k-after-posing-as-renovation-firm-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69658","title":{"rendered":"Man to be charged with cheating victim of over $86k after posing as renovation firm employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A 41-year-old man was arrested after allegedly posing as a renovation company employee and cheating a victim out of more than<!-- --> $86,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement on<!-- --> July 17,<!-- --> the police said they received a report at <!-- -->4.32pm on July 3,<!-- --> alleging that a man had failed to carry out renovation work after receiving the payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations found that the victim engaged the man for renovation services after he claimed to be affiliated with a renovation company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The victim lodged a police report after discovering that renovations works were not completed, and that the man was not a staff member of the renovation company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Officers from Bedok Police Division were able to establish the identity of the man through ground inquiries. He is believed to be also involved in other cheating cases involving a similar modus operandi, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He will be charged in court on<!-- --> July 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">If found guilty, he can be jailed for <!-- -->up to 10 years and fined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police advised members of the public to always verify the credentials of the company and its representatives when engaging them for renovation works. The public should avoid making large payments before work commences, police added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-to-be-charged-with-cheating-victim-of-over-86000-after-posing-as-renovation-company-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 41-year-old man was arrested after allegedly posing as a renovation company employee and cheating a victim out of more than $86,000. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}