HE APPARENTLY preyed on unsuspecting tenants in search of rental units. Over a period of 10 months, he was said to have cheated them of more than $100,000 in more than 50 cases island-wide. On the run since last year, the 33-year-old unemployed man was arrested in a stake out early yesterday. According to preliminary police investigations, between April last year and last month, he had collected advance...
Rental Scams
Ruses are now rife; foreign nationals the main targets WHEN factory worker Zhang Wenfang and his five friends found a five-room Housing & Development Board (HDB) flat in Jurong West that they liked, they paid the property agent $9,300 - six months' rent. But, when they tried to move into the flat on July 1, they found it locked. "We had trouble contacting our agent; he didn't return our calls. I...