You can cheat by showing a false location on the internet

One computer technician cheated 19 victims of $12,500 showing his internet location as in Germany and posting to Singapore motoring websites he could offer much lower prices for car parts and accessories because of his bulk purchases in Germany. He was sentenced to 29 months' jail last month.

When you go onto the internet, you need a network address in order to be linked up. You can lease a fixed address from your internet service provider or just use one randomly assigned from a group by the service provider (*lower cost method). Each address is identified by four 3-digit number separated by a dot, for example I am now using a randomly assigned internet IP of 121.6.23.171 which is a unique internet address set aside for Singapore.  Thus, one can tell your location from the internet address.

You can hide your internet address (location) by using another computer as the front to access the internet. Depending on the location of this computer, you can be mistaken to be actually residing there since this computer will have its own internet address. That was the method used by the technician to pretend that he was in Germany when in fact he was in Singapore.  News report seems to suggest the police tracked him down by tracing his internet path, even talking about his riding on a neigbour's wireless router for access to the internet instead of his own.  From the router end it is really difficult nowadays to tell who had actually connected to it.  We used to be able to tell by the MAC address which is a hardware code identifying the device at time of manufacture but in today's environment, you can also change the MAC address to mimic another device so I wonder how the police can resolve this unless the cheater does not know this fact or overlook its significance. The path from Germany also look too enormous to start.

Thus, though it is not revealed the police likely got their man from tracing how money was transferred to the cheater's account, as it was all done in Singapore even if it passed through a trading account.

Singapore man jailed for six years after cheating more than $86,000

After the company discovered that stock level did not match sales records, a former sales assistant of Norman Audio was dismissed from the company. The man, Tang, continued to approach the company's customers offering cheaper prices in return for cash paid in advance. The cash collected ranged from $1,300 to $10,000 each time. The goods were, of course, not delivered.

The sentence was passed on 12-12-2011 and the man was jailed for six years on eights counts of cheating and one count of criminal breach of trust.

See another Singapore man who cheated his childhood friend




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Bok Teck Tien under investigation in Singapore





Bok - spending the money he doesn't have

   Mr. Bok Teck Tien (known among some friends and ex-colleagues as Ah Bok), born in Singapore, September 1957 and was one of executive directors in Sunlink International Holdings Limited according to their 2002 annual report.  In the same report, it also stated Bok Teck Tien was a graduate of University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom and described as a former employee of Hewlett-Packard Far East Pte Ltd for 12 years.

Basically, Bok Teck Tien had taken money (good cash) from one of his trusting friends in early 2009 (Jan) purportingly to go into some kind of handphone production when the technology for such venture does not exist with him.  The money was someone's life-time saving and intended in good faith for investment returns but the cash was not even placed into the company's bank account since repeated requests for statements from the bank were not responded; the action of NOT putting the investment money into the company bank account is a criminal breach of trust and has criminal consequence in a court of law.  This is not withstanding Mr. Bok had also to put in his share of the investment money.

When the time came that the company finally did not proceed with the venture, Bok Teck Tien was not able to produce and return the S$33,000 given to him as investment money though the money should rightly be still in the company's bank account. What happened to the money? Did he use it for his personal expenditure? Or he never intend to return it in the first place??

Whatever happened to the money, it was not money meant as a personal loan to Mr. Bok and a police report had been lodged and if you have information to help in the investigation, please contact me at PI.Bonsma@gmail.com or contact the investigating officer of the case (E/20100822/2065) at Singapore Tanglin Police Station. The report is about Criminal Breach of Trust. However, the Police seems to be taking their own sweet time in investigating the matter and allowing ample time for Bok Teck Tien to pray and reflect on his behaviour. Bok Teck Tien should know that the money is technically money handed down from a grandfather for his grandchildren's education and only in his friend's custody. There should be knockings on his door in the middle of night, and it will get louder.

Why Mr. Bok would want to cause such pains to a trusting friend? It is so easy to get a loan from the banks or credit cards nowadays, so it is obvious he must have exhausted those means. It was only of pure bad luck that his friend should have met him back after so many years and trusted him money based on childhood memory. Bok Teck Tien was so desparate for money that he literally went through an elaborate "movie script" to trick his friend to part with some of his valuable savings.  Is this the only victim in Singapore? Let this story be your alert for similar cases you may encounter elsewhere.

Going after you for rest of your remaining time on earth



Is Bok Teck Tien's behaviour related to the fortune of Sunlink International Holdings Limited? Below is the price chart of Sunlink International Holdings Limited from Bloomsberg; the stock crashed in 2009 and trading in the shares of the company had been suspended at the request of the company since 2 Dec 2008. The reason for suspension and latest details of this company is readily available on the internet.




Stock crashed, and if you are unprepared, you know not what you are doing in life

 
Below is the name card given out to his victim friend in 2008; he claimed to be a minority shareholder of Omni-Plus System Pte Ltd and that the company was planning for IPO.  The indicated mobile number is no longer in use by Mr. Bok. His last known mobile numbers were 93633037 and 93807138. At the time, Bok Teck Tien was using Adam Bok in his email address adam_bok@hotmail.com and still known to use it recently. However, he has one recent LinkedIn account known as David Bok.



Why write over another;s name card? Show your printed name if you are indeed who you claimed to be

  Bok's current address is at Blk 563, #15-xxx Hougang Street 51; He is of short built.

Bumper Harvest from cheating the unsuspecting?

 




   


 



Was Bok Teck Tien ever a director at Omni-Plus System Pte Ltd? Does Omni-Plus System Pte Ltd has turnover of USD 100 million? Was Bok Teck Tien offered a job of Vice President at Zaienta which he had evem made a name card? Bok Teck Tien stayed at 35 Mohamed Sultan Road when he was a boy
His brother is a GP doctor at Bedok Reservoir Road. Brother - Dr. Bok Teck Sun, Bok Family Clinic, Block 117 Bedok Reservoir Road, #01-58, Singapore 470117. His sister is a teacher at Anderson JC. Sister - Bok Teck Kin, Anderson Junior College, 4500 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6, Singapore 569843. Money No Enough 3 actor Bok Teck Tien. Why he needs to cheat his trusting friend? His father runs a bus transport business, why nobody care about his misdeeds? It is no good for the reputation of the family, isn't it? I would not teach my son to take money from his friend wihtout permission, would I? Only crooks do that. who is Bok Ju and Teh Lai. Foreign Talent.
A former audio equipment salesman was sentenced six years' jail on Monday for cheating and criminal breach of trust; 31-year-old Tang Yong Kwok embezzled more than $1 million from his employer