Robinsons foils possible shopping voucher scam
Bid to buy $200k worth of vouchers; likely link to FairPrice incident
Published on Nov 24, 2011
Mr Wee (left) of Robinsons said the alleged culprit insisted that another staff member had agreed to let him have the vouchers immediately, which was not the case. Mr Yun, CEO of credit-rating firm Dun & Bradstreet Singapore, said awareness of such scams should be raised. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
By Kimberly Spykerman
Police are looking into a report filed by department store chain Robinsons on Monday about a man who tried to buy $200,000 worth of shopping vouchers from its Raffles Boulevard office two weeks ago.
The retailer reported the matter to the police because it believes the incident may be related to an alleged bad cheque scam at FairPrice which was reported in the news that same day.
In that case, two suspects were arrested last Saturday for allegedly cheating the supermarket chain by using a bad cheque to pay for $500,000 worth of FairPrice shopping vouchers.
Tan Tuan Lue, 22, and Hakim Leong, 19, are accused of committing the offence at the FairPrice cooperative's head office in Upper Thomson Road last Thursday.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
Mr Wee (left) of Robinsons said the alleged culprit insisted that another staff member had agreed to let him have the vouchers immediately, which was not the case. Mr Yun, CEO of credit-rating firm Dun & Bradstreet Singapore, said awareness of such scams should be raised. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
By Kimberly Spykerman
Police are looking into a report filed by department store chain Robinsons on Monday about a man who tried to buy $200,000 worth of shopping vouchers from its Raffles Boulevard office two weeks ago.
The retailer reported the matter to the police because it believes the incident may be related to an alleged bad cheque scam at FairPrice which was reported in the news that same day.
In that case, two suspects were arrested last Saturday for allegedly cheating the supermarket chain by using a bad cheque to pay for $500,000 worth of FairPrice shopping vouchers.
Tan Tuan Lue, 22, and Hakim Leong, 19, are accused of committing the offence at the FairPrice cooperative's head office in Upper Thomson Road last Thursday.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
