<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Feb 10, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Man cheated bank staff <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong
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AN ODD-JOB labourer who used a fictitious pay slip to apply for a $7,000 loan from a bank was fined $1,500 on Tuesday for cheating.
Ng Bok Soon, 36, admitted to cheating a POSB assistant service manager at the Jurong East Central branch on Nov 19, 2007.
He deceived her into believing that he was employed by GTR Technologies which paid him $3,800 a month when he applied for a POSB loan of $7,000, which was processed successfully.
The court heard that he was having financial difficulties at the time when one David Fu Jing Yong suggested that he get a loan from POSB.
Fu, who has since died, told Ng that he could help him get a fictitious pay slip, and that Ng had to pay him $1,000 if he succeeded in getting the loan.
Ng, who paid Fu $1,000, had fully repaid the loan amount to POSB. He could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined for the offence.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Man cheated bank staff <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong
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AN ODD-JOB labourer who used a fictitious pay slip to apply for a $7,000 loan from a bank was fined $1,500 on Tuesday for cheating.
Ng Bok Soon, 36, admitted to cheating a POSB assistant service manager at the Jurong East Central branch on Nov 19, 2007.
He deceived her into believing that he was employed by GTR Technologies which paid him $3,800 a month when he applied for a POSB loan of $7,000, which was processed successfully.
The court heard that he was having financial difficulties at the time when one David Fu Jing Yong suggested that he get a loan from POSB.
Fu, who has since died, told Ng that he could help him get a fictitious pay slip, and that Ng had to pay him $1,000 if he succeeded in getting the loan.
Ng, who paid Fu $1,000, had fully repaid the loan amount to POSB. He could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined for the offence.
