For 15 years, two women cheated a simple-minded man out of his life savings and monthly earnings allegedly amounting up to $400,000 by convincing him that he was in debt with the Government.
The con was so effective that the man, 70-year-old cleaner Tan Soy Kiang, refused to believe that it wasn't true until a representative from the government personally told him that he didn't owe any money.
According to The New Paper, he received just that — his district's Member of Parliament Hri Kumar Nair informed Tan that he does not owe anyone cash, to which the elderly man smiled and nodded.
One of the two women involved in the 15-year-long scam has since been arrested for admitting to cheating him, while the other insists that she too had been conned.
Since the publication of his plight on The New Paper last Sunday, a crowdfunding campaign was launched on Indiegogo by Dan Chen, a man who was moved by Tan's story. As of writing, the money raised has reached over $38,000 USD — all of which will go towards helping Tan.
Photo: Indiegogo
For 15 years, two women cheated a simple-minded man out of his life savings and monthly earnings allegedly amounting up to $400,000 by convincing him that he was in debt with the Government.
The con was so effective that the man, 70-year-old cleaner Tan Soy Kiang, refused to believe that it wasn't true until a representative from the government personally told him that he didn't owe any money.
According to The New Paper, he received just that — his district's Member of Parliament Hri Kumar Nair informed Tan that he does not owe anyone cash, to which the elderly man smiled and nodded.
One of the two women involved in the 15-year-long scam has since been arrested for admitting to cheating him, while the other insists that she too had been conned.
Since the publication of his plight on The New Paper last Sunday, a crowdfunding campaign was launched on Indiegogo by Dan Chen, a man who was moved by Tan's story. As of writing, the money raised has reached over $38,000 USD — all of which will go towards helping Tan.
Photo: Indiegogo