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Jail for man who scammed boyfriends and mentally ill woman, filed false rape reports, forged S$1 trillion cheque​

SINGAPORE — While under investigation for a series of serious offences, including cheating several users on gay dating application Grindr and forging a cheque for S$1 trillion in his mother’s name, Jerald Low Jing Yong decided to make his boyfriend take the blame.​

Jail for man who scammed boyfriends and mentally ill woman, filed false rape reports, forged S$1 trillion cheque
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SINGAPORE — While under investigation for a series of serious offences, including cheating several users on gay dating application Grindr and forging a cheque for S$1 trillion in his mother’s name, Jerald Low Jing Yong decided to make his boyfriend take the blame.

To that end, Low lied to the police for six months that his boyfriend had coerced him into breaking the law by physically and sexually abusing him repeatedly.

His final act, which led to his remand earlier this month, was to forge a medical certificate to avoid pleading guilty in court and serving an imprisonment term.

On Wednesday (March 16), the 27-year-old was sentenced to five years and seven months’ jail, a fine of S$1,800 and a 12-month driving ban.

He admitted to 17 criminal charges, mostly of cheating and obstruction of justice. Another 35 other charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.

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Prosecutors told the court that he had devised a web of lies for three years, tricking several victims — many of whom he met through social media and dating apps — into signing up for mobile line contracts and causing more than S$150,000 in losses.
He had even filed a notice of marriage with one victim, who suffered a relapse of her bipolar disorder and was admitted to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for two months after seeing his true colours.

POSED AS KOREAN MAN TO ‘BUY’ PROPERTIES​

The court heard that Low deceived several victims, including a National University of Singapore student, into signing up for mobile phone lines.

He reassured the student that he would pay the bills and claimed that his twin brother would take over payment, as he was purportedly going to South Korea for an exchange programme.

When the student tried to get him to repay, Low hired a law firm to intimidate him and lied to his lawyers that the student owed him S$12,000.

In early 2018, Low realised that he could issue cheques to his own bank accounts to cause a temporary increase in his account balance, though he knew the cheques would not clear. He planned to show his ledger balance to those around him.

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In April 2018, he stole his mother’s cheque book and issued himself a cheque for S$1 trillion (S$1,000,000,000,000) by forging her signature on it. Due to the abnormally large value, OCBC bank made queries into his mother’s account and was informed that it was closed.
The cheque was not processed and an OCBC representative made a police report.

On other occasions, Low issued cheques payable to himself to entities such as the Central Provident Fund Board, Housing and Development Board, and Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council. None of them were ultimately cleared.

Then, in May 2019, Low came up with a plan to issue cheques to obtain options to purchase real estate. He planned on using the options to boast to friends that he could afford expensive properties.

He took on the persona of a wealthy Korean, "Park Joon Hyung", who had inherited a large of money and also dyed his hair to look the part.

He viewed various properties with the help of a property agent and issued 13 cheques valued at S$2.1 million for the option to purchase fees, despite knowing that he could not honour the payments.

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The cheques were similarly not cleared and the properties were eventually released for other potential buyers.
Low was also involved in a traffic accident in 2018. He then used the other driver’s particulars to fraudulently register for an account with Tribecar, and beat a red light while driving, among other incidents.

He also registered for an account with car-sharing service BlueSG and did not pay about S$1,000 in rental fees. He did not have a valid driving licence at the time.

ROPED WOMAN INTO HIS SHELL COMPANY​

In October 2018, a 35-year-old woman responded to Low’s advertisement for a job at Fitness Tea — a shell company that Low had set up. He then tricked her into signing up for StarHub mobile line contracts.

The day after they met, he agreed to register a marriage with her. She also got her brother to join the company.

When she told her brother that she would be promoted to a manager, his wife said that Low might be a scammer.

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The victim then suffered a relapse of her bipolar disorder and was admitted to IMH. A report stated that some of her symptoms included “delusions of love”.
Low also began dating a 31-year-old man he had met on Grindr, lying that he owned two units at an upscale Riversails condominium in Upper Serangoon and had inherited money. He got the victim to sign up for more mobile line contracts and to “invest” in a “private SGX fund”.

The victim borrowed about S$22,000 and never received any money in return.

Low met and got into relationships with other men through an online forum, similarly passing himself off as wealthy. He got one of them to sign a dozen car sales agreements first, lying that he could pay for the vehicles later.

The victim was soon informed of a message circulating among car dealers, warning that he and Low were going around buying cars with cheques that did not clear.

FILED 5 FALSE POLICE REPORTS​

Eventually, Low met Desmond Poon Jun Yee, 22, through Grindr and they began dating. Low lied that he was a director and owner of bubble tea franchise R&B Tea.

He knew that he was under investigation and would be facing criminal charges, so he managed to persuade Poon to take the fall.

In September 2020, he filed a false police report alleging that he committed the offences on Poon’s instructions since 2018. He further claimed that Poon had threatened to harm him and his family if he did not take sole responsibility, and said that Poon had abused him physically many times.

In November 2020, after Low had been charged in court, he made another false report that he was “mentally and physically tortured” by Poon.

In March last year, he then convinced Poon to insert an element of sexual assault into their lies. He told the police that Poon had raped him more than 15 times.

Low perpetuated his lies by saying that he handed all the mobile phone sales proceeds to Poon.

On April 21 last year, Low finally admitted to lying about the rapes, but maintained that Poon had asked him to cheat people. He was also asked to go for a sexual assault examination due to his allegations.

Poon came clean about his lies that same day. He has been charged with obstructing justice and his case is still pending.

On Jan 21 this year, Low was set to plead guilty but decided to forge a medical certificate (MC) to excuse his attendance. He edited a previous MC issued to him and sent it to his lawyer who submitted it to the court.
 

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JMS Rogers Telco Scam Alert

Telco SCAM alerts on the rise as we recieve another case within 2 weeks!!!!

Please Take Extra Precaution Before Getting Involved in
Financial Transactions with Acquaintances.

This is a case of 26-year-old Jerald Low Jing Yong, who scammed a victim named TY over the month of January 2019.

TY got to know Jerald from an online forum in December 2018. On the forum, Jerald mentioned about doing business with others. This interested TY, who does his own business. They began communicating over Telegram, where Jerald shared about his bubble tea business, and his plans to open a new bubble tea shop at Marina Bay Sands.

1. Telco Line Scam

The pair met on 3 Jan 2019 for the first time at Tampines Mall. Over dinner, Jerald shared that he wanted new telco lines for his business. He asked TY if he could use his personal details, while paying for the initial sign-up costs himself. TY thought that it was a small matter and obliged.

That day, using TY’s personal details, Jerald purchased 5 lines from different telcos and obtained 5 smartphones, which he likely sold for a profit. Jerald told TY that he would transfer the ownership of the lines to his own business, but he never did. For months, TY received the telco bills and even legal letters demanding for the payment of the lines.

2. Loan Request

From 5 to 9 Jan, Jerald shared with TY about his grandmother’s hospitalization. Jerald said that he had lost his bank cards and could not pay the hospital bills. He asked TY for help, and TY transferred him up to $20,581 as a loan.

3. Car Purchases and Rentals

On 13 Jan, Jerald told TY that he wanted to replace his existing cars. TY has an interest in cars and accompanied Jerald to the showrooms. They visited the Audi and Volvo showrooms, where Jerald gave cheques to purchase up to 5 cars. However, without explaining much, he asked TY for his personal details again, which he used to sign the sales agreements.

The next few days, on 14 and 15 Jan, the pair visited the Kia, Volkswagen and Alfa Romeo showrooms, where Jerald purchased 6 cars using the same method: handing a cheque but sealing the deals with TY’s information. TY obliged as he had seen Jerald’s wealth and thought that Jerald just needed some help – perhaps, there could be potential business opportunities together too.

On 16 Jan, they met at a coffeeshop at Toa Payoh, where Jerald told TY that he wanted to rent a car. He reminded TY about his lost bank cards and asked TY to help pay first. TY used his credit card, which is shared with his mother. About 10 days later, TY’s mother received an SMS that a rental car company had charged their credit card a total of $6,420. TY called Jerald about the charge, and Jerald said he was unaware of it. TY’s mother immediately called the bank to file a dispute and suspend the charge.

Eventually, Jerald’s cheques for all the car purchases bounced too. TY called the car dealers, who by now were getting wary of the pair. The car dealers said the purchases would be voided; but for the Audi purchase, TY would have to bear a penalty fee.

4. An Impression of Wealth

TY had visited Jerald at the Riversails condominium and was told that the scammer owned 2 units there. TY also saw Jerald driving 5 different cars – from Audi A3s in different colours to a Mazda 3. Jerald also showed TY what was apparently his bank statement with a $1.5 million balance.

5. JMS Rogers’ Intervention

After the bounced cheques and Jerald’s failure to pay TY back for the hospital bill and transfer the telco line ownership, TY realized he had been scammed over just 3 weeks. He filed a police report. While the police can help to investigate the case, they cannot assist with any recovery of debts from the scammer, which has to be done via a civil suit (mainly bankruptcy filing by another creditor).

TY approached JMS Rogers for intervention. JMS Rogers immediately managed to achieve communication with Jerald, following the phone call with Jerald he agreed to sign an agreement promising to return the monies owing to TY by instalment. JMS Rogers will be keeping a close eye on his monthly debt repayments.

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We urge the public:

❗️❗️ Do not easily give out your personal details to friends for sales agreements or transactions. You will automatically be part of the contract and become financially involved.

❗️❗️ Do not offer to help people whom you barely know in their large purchases. You may think that you are doing a kind act or impressing them; but without much information on their background, you are putting yourself at great risk.

❗️❗️Do not be easily taken in by people who promise big business opportunities or financial rewards. Check for their credentials in the business world – even a lack of presence on LinkedIn or when you do a basic Google search spells trouble.

❗️❗️ Do not be convinced by the impression that others give you while they seek your help. For example, their displays of wealth may not be authentic and likely put up to scam others.
 

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Serial cheater scammed his boyfriends to sign phone lines, wrote $1 trillion cheque​

Wan Ting KohWed, March 16, 2022, 8:41 PM
A phone screen. (PHOTO: Getty Images)



A phone screen. (PHOTO: Getty Images)


SINGAPORE — For over three years, a man preyed on other men he met through dating apps, spinning a web of lies to ensnare them into signing up for things he wanted.

Jerald Low Jing Yong, 27, even registered marriage with a woman with bipolar disorder, and used her to cheat her brother.

Low would pretend to be a wealthy man and eventually cheated his victims of more than $150,000. He even tried to encash a $1 trillion cheque he wrote.

Low was sentenced to 67 months’ jail and fined $1,800 on Wednesday (16 March). He pleaded guilty to 16 out of 51 charges, with his offences spanning from 2017 to 2020, mostly for cheating. The remaining charges were considered for his sentencing. He will be disqualified from driving for 12 months from his date of release from prison.

In 2017, Low met a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and introduced himself as a medical student at NUS. He convinced this student, named Louis, to sign up for mobile lines on his behalf. Low never paid for the lines and lied that his “twin brother” would pay for the lines.

Low became annoyed with Louis for asking him to pay the bills. He engaged a lawyer to intimidate Louis.

In 2018, he issued cheques to his bank account so that his ledger balance would show a temporary increase. In April that year, he used his mother’s UOB chequebook to issue a cheque for $1 trillion. He forged her signature before cashing in the cheque to his OCBC account.

OCBC checked the status of Low’s mother’s account and found that it was closed. There was a risk that an interest sum of more than $2.5 million would show in Low’s available balance temporarily, and this could have been withdrawn. The bank lodged a police report.

On at least four other occasions, Low issued cheques to entities, including the Central Provident Fund Board, Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council, and the Housing Development Board.

In 2019, Low cheated property sellers by pretending to be a wealthy Korean, even dyeing his hair to appear the part. He used 13 cheques with values of more than $2 million for payment of option fees for at least seven different properties, when he wasn't able to pay for them.

Apart from cheques, Low used the NRIC and driving license of a driver he had been in an accident in 2018 with to register for a car rental service account. He obtained the driver’s particulars after exchanging details with him for the accident.

Low also set up a shell company called Fitness Tea.

One of Low’s victims, a 35-year-old woman, applied for a job at Fitness Tea, and was hired after an interview at a rented space. A day later, Low registered his marriage with the woman and cheated her into signing for phone lines for him. He claimed he would pay for these lines but he never did, using them to buy game credits.

The woman also introduced her brother for a job at Fitness Tea and her brother sent a copy of his NRIC and driving license to Low for his job application. Low used the details to register for a car rental service.

The woman told her brother that the “CEO” of Fitness Tea proposed to her, and that she would be promoted to manager. However, the brother’s wife later told the woman that Low was a scammer. The woman suffered a relapse of her bipolar disorder, with symptoms including “delusions of love”.

Low also scammed four men whom he met through gay dating apps and forums. He would pretend to be a rich man and ask his targets to sign up for phone lines. Among his lies included his mother owning a spa chain, his multiple properties, and his plans to start a bubble tea franchise and a pet cafe.

One victim, Kenneth, 24, was taken in by Low, who rented a car to ferry him around and claimed he wanted a serious relationship with him.

“The accused also told Kenneth that the accused’s father worked in the oil and gas industry in Korea... Kenneth’s interaction with the accused...gave Kenneth the impression that the accused was a wealthy individual who was sincere about entering into a relationship with him,” said the prosecution.

Low cheated this guy into signing up for phone lines then blocked him on his phone.

Around the same time, Low cheated a 25-year-old victim, Timothy, with the same ruse. He rented different cars to impress Timothy. He told Timothy he wanted to buy new cars and manipulated him into signing car sales agreements totalling more than $2.5 million.

In early 2020, Low dated a man, Desmond, when he had already been charged in court and was out on bail. He convinced Desmond into taking the fall for his offences.

On 9 September 2020, Low made a false police report about Desmond instructing him to commit the offences. He claimed that Desmond had threatened to harm him and his family. He lied that Desmond had raped him more than 15 times.

Ahead of a hearing for him to plead guilty on 21 January this year, Low forged a medical certificate, which his lawyer submitted in court.

Low caused more than $154,000 in losses, and only restituted $100.

His lawyers, Gino Hardial Singh and Deepansh Sharma, said that their client came from a troubled family. Low’s parents are divorced and he is estranged from his father.

In 2002, Low was sent to the Singapore Boys’ Home as his mother declared him to be beyond parental control. He was brought home after he was badly bullied.

Low is the primary caregiver for his mother, who has late-stage lung cancer, and his grandmother, who has dementia and depression.

When he was a child, he was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Conduct Disorder as a child and assessed to have a borderline IQ of 71. He was diagnosed with major depression when he was 19, and with adjustment disorder three years ago.
 
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