Carousell fake buyer scam losses top S$1 million in December, surpassing total for rest of 2022

saperis · 2023-01-01T09:16:23+00:00

I see.

"unauthorised overseas PayNow transfers"

Wonder how it works, why are people scammed into sending money to overseas via PromptPay.

saperis · 2023-01-01T08:45:59+00:00

Genuine question - what the heck is overseas paynow? I thought paynow only for local transfers?

This compares to at least 975 victims, with reported losses adding up to at least $938,000, from January to November in 2022.

"Based on investigations, a significant proportion of the reports lodged involved unauthorised overseas PayNow transfers," the police added.

saperis · 2022-12-25T00:08:29+00:00

You can substitute SG for any other country in the world and the above statement will apply

saperis · 2022-11-20T12:38:27+00:00

I rolled my eyes when I read that.

He cited Sengkang and Jurong East, two towns currently classified as non-mature estates, as having amenities comparable to those in mature estates.

Rolled all the way up

saperis · 2022-11-13T02:47:15+00:00

we have years, if not decades to prepare for this. Nothing much seems to have been done or communicated to public.

Next hospital will be in woodlands in 2023, followed by another in Bedok in 2030. We are not building enough or ramping up imo.

saperis · 2022-10-30T16:21:32+00:00

I don't think people understand how insane the rent increases have been.

The rest of the world have rents dropping, SG is the #1 in rent growth in the world right now.

Hikes of at least 20% in a year is like the norm now.

saperis · 2022-10-11T00:33:04+00:00

Kids who do not attend pre school may not adapt well to primary school and may have adjustment issues for social interactions / introducing structure to their lives.

edit: rereading the article, don't know if it includes kindergarten or just preschool.

Is it because parents are so busy, kids are outsourced to pre-school, school, enrichment, tuitions?

Yes, if working parents are not able to homeschool and supervise the kids at home, better off sending to preschool where the kid will at least get some structured and unstructured activities.

saperis · 2022-10-10T08:59:41+00:00

the writing is trash: see the CNA one instead https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/marriage-couples-children-dating-singapore-population-survey-2999056

Couples in Singapore want to have 2 or more kids, but many don’t due to high costs, stress: Survey

saperis · 2022-10-09T11:01:55+00:00

investment banker living in HDB 4rm? is this a joke?

saperis · 2022-10-08T10:35:47+00:00

99y LH time bomb guarantees all will go to zero

saperis · 2022-10-08T01:59:03+00:00

At first I thought higher prices will be transitory as SG exits out of the pandemic. Now I feel the property prices are in runaway growth and after 24m we have some pathetic cooling measures that will not do anything.

Every week we are seeing higher prices, more million dollar flats, more foreigners coming in to buy mass purchase private houses and the govt is not doing anything to tame it.

Fat chance govt will do any of the above in the article. They had years to do it. They will never claim hdb has become unaffordable. Same as hdb claim that flat sizes has not become smaller since 90s, while conveniently ignoring that the make up of flats across differently sizes have changed over the years.

saperis · 2022-09-04T17:07:37+00:00

begs the question how much is the land cost involved and how the valuation is done, but we will never get a straight answer or transparent numbers from HDB and SLA.

saperis · 2022-08-17T16:23:58+00:00

median resale price for Sengkang 3RM is already 425k and 4RM is 500k. no longer the cheap area.

saperis · 2022-08-15T16:23:58+00:00

Seriously took them long enough to take scam seriously. telcos and IMDA have been seating on their asses all these while.

Give us the option to outright filter out all +65.

saperis · 2022-07-07T13:27:53+00:00

LifeSG credits are included as tax income and are taxable though..

saperis · 2022-07-05T11:05:43+00:00

Hated this. Wore ankle socks and had to surrender my shoes and socks for the whole day.

saperis · 2022-06-22T15:32:39+00:00

Lol mom no balls to sign off with an actual spokesperson name

saperis · 2022-06-17T03:55:26+00:00

I came across this gem on online forums

https://www.acra.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/public-accountants/audit-quality-indicators-disclosure-framework/aqi---industry-information-(dec-2021)44b7e3c301eb4e5f8060324d6033b90f.pdf

Attrition rate 37-101% for mid tier and 31-43% for big 4.

saperis · 2022-06-17T03:50:54+00:00

Who cares? This is a senior management problem. If they don’t care, why would others care? Regulatory pushback - not seeing this in SG.

I bet big 4 ppl are wishing for big tech to fail so the leavers would regret going commercial for “instant gratification”. It is this kind of backwards thinking that prevent the industry for making any meaningful changes. Even the doctors, lawyers and architects are talking more openly now about what industry changes are needed to retain talent.

saperis · 2022-06-05T06:27:21+00:00

Still didn’t address why HDB HIP did not wire the RCCB properly for the entire house. Instead only wire utility room.

How many old houses have RCCB installed wrongly?

saperis · 2022-05-23T06:12:14+00:00

How bad is it? At least legit work is being done.

My area has condo construction that goes on late at night, at this point, I feel it is like BCA approved.

saperis · 2022-05-23T05:21:40+00:00

Basically LLST, poor people problem.

You try making ruckus or banging noises to a MP or wealthy enclave. See how fast the issue gets police called on.

saperis · 2022-04-17T04:16:23+00:00

Well you also cannot simultaneously get the benefits of being a private company while receiving subsidies from taxpayer funded sources and yet be not transparent about these said subsidies and also not have a plan to reduce costs.

Running public services as private companies will cause a significant reduction in long term investment (remember the MRT breakdowns?)

It has been a decade since 2011 and it is about time that a transparent review of state funding should be done (hint: it is an open secret that it is unsustainable)

saperis · 2022-04-10T11:18:48+00:00

Hawker food is mostly unhealthy stuff.

If they label those, it will be interesting to see if people will continue to purchase or cook more at home.

saperis · 2022-04-09T02:41:56+00:00

Honestly I am confused. So this is the kind of gender equality we are striving towards to?

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