A 29-year-old man, Lim Yi Xiang, was sentenced to one year and two weeks in jail for cheating two people out of over $32,000 by posing as a recruiter and promising government grants. He manipulated contracts and used fake information to obtain funds from his victims.
A scammer cheated two people out of over $32,000 in total by deceiving the pair into believing he was helping them recruit staff and obtain government grants . Separately, Lim Yi Xiang also cheated two others of another $680 in a scam involving online marketplace Carousell. On Dec 30, Lim, 29, was sentenced to one year and two weeks’ jail after he pleaded guilty to charges including two counts of cheating involving $31,570.
One of Lim’s victims, identified in court documents as V1, bore the bulk of the monetary losses – $31,020 in total. In 2019, V1 advertised online to hire four persons for a firm called Acteco Trading, in which he was a director at the time, Deputy Public Prosecutor Teo Siu Ming told the court. Lim, who was then engaged as a sales sub-agent for another firm called Weistum Advisory, then contacted V1, stating that he could help the latter in recruiting the four staff members and obtaining two government grants – Career Trial and P Max – for Acteco. For Career Trial, Lim told V1 it would entail training the new hires with course materials prepared by Weistum. He added that “V1 simply had to check the contents of the course materials to be eligible for the grant, which amounted to $28,800”, the DPP said. Lim also told V1 that he would have to pay $4,640 to recruit the four additional staff members for Acteco, and 30 per cent of the grant to Weistum. After V1 agreed to these terms, Lim obtained a physical copy of an existing template contract used by Weistum for Career Trial bearing its director’s signature. But he doctored the document before giving it to V1 to sign, replacing Weistum’s company bank account number with his personal bank account number. V1 then signed the doctored document and transferred a total of $12,590 to Lim’s bank account between November 2019 and March 2020. In the ruse involving P Max, Lim told V1 that this entailed sending the recruited additional staff members for courses conducted by the government
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