A woman who goes by the name of “Pauline Ong” has cheated at least 230 buyers of almost $52,000 in a series of online forum scams.
Confronted by irate buyers who turned up at her house earlier this month, she has since apologised and has started paying refunds to affected customers from at least nine different online sprees on the Singapore Motherhood forum.
Using two separate nicknames, noelpauline and Cynthia.k, Ong had created at least nine threads under the forum’s Overseas Spree section from March this year to advertise attractive shipping fees, lower tax and exchange rates for items including bags, wristlets and lanyards from upscale brands like Coach, Kate Spade and Longchamp. Full story
