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SINGAPORE — Taking advantage of an increase in demand for surgical face masks amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a 28-year-old odd-job worker lied that he had large quantities of them for sale on e-marketplace Carousell.
One buyer even handed over S$175,000 in S$1,000 bills as a deposit for 500 cartons of masks.
However, Daryl Cheong Zhi Yong eventually became uncontactable. He used S$7,080 of the cash to buy a Rolex watch and gold jewellery.
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On Monday (July 27), he was sentenced to three years and two months’ jail for cheating S$205,260 in total from his victims. He has remained in remand since his arrest in February.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/man-jailed-more-3-years-cheating-face-mask-buyers-s205000
One buyer even handed over S$175,000 in S$1,000 bills as a deposit for 500 cartons of masks.
However, Daryl Cheong Zhi Yong eventually became uncontactable. He used S$7,080 of the cash to buy a Rolex watch and gold jewellery.
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On Monday (July 27), he was sentenced to three years and two months’ jail for cheating S$205,260 in total from his victims. He has remained in remand since his arrest in February.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/man-jailed-more-3-years-cheating-face-mask-buyers-s205000
