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The Straits Times www.straitstimes.com Published on Jan 5, 2012 http://www.straitstimes.com/print/Breaking...ory_752199.html Unauthorised withdrawals from DBS/POSB accounts By Robin Chan DBS Bank is investigating a potentially large scale bank fraud, after a series of unauthorised withdrawals were made from Malaysia. The bank is combing through all transactions made in Malaysia to validate them, and said that all customers would be fully compensated within 24 hours for any false transactions. 'Some customers informed the bank of unauthorised withdrawals made in Malaysia through their DBS/POSB ATM/debit cards. Their compromised cards were immediately deactivated and we are now taking steps to compensate these customers in full,' said Mr Jeremy Soo, managing director and head of consumer banking group Singapore at DBS Bank, in a statement issued by the bank. Any customer that believes their ATM or debit card has been compromised should contact the bank at 1800-220-1111 or visit any bank branch. The bank will also issue a replacement card on the spot at any of its branches. Copyright

The French Cellar 'Wines' Up Without Notice - Customers Owed "Thousands Of Dollars"Sources: https://vulcanpost.com/665149/the-french-cellar-singapore-closure/ Online wine subscription platform, The French Cellar, announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday (28 May) that they have “ceased operations on 27 May 2019 and is now in the process of voluntary liquidation”. It cited “difficult business circumstances” as the reason. Screenshot of The French Cellar’s Facebook post The news came as a shock as apparently, there was no prior notice given to subscribers, some of whom have lost “thousands of dollars”. Existing customers will no longer receive the bottles of wine they’ve paid for. Liquidators will be in touch with them and affected customers can “file a proof of debt in respect of [their] wine subscription”, the post stated. No Sour Grapes, Just Relationships Gone Sour Daniel Ogunshakin, a Singapore-based FOX Sports Asia broadcast journalist, shared with Vulcan Post that he has been a customer at The French Cellar for the past 15 months. His Facebook comment expressed his dissatisfaction with the way the company handled his enquiry on his April order that didn’t reach him. Mr Ogunshakin subscribed to The French Cellar as he thought it was a convenient way to try new wines that he otherwise might not have tried. “We were lucky that we only paid on a per-month basis so we only lost $84,” he said. He revealed that the company didn’t inform him beforehand on the ceasing of its operations. “I even called them a week or so ago to ask where my wine was and was told it would be delivered last weekend,” Mr Ogunshakin told us. Ms Lee Hui Ting, however, wasn’t so “lucky”. Like Mr Ogunshakin, she subscribed to The French Cellar because it’s a convenient service. She paid $1,014 including GST, upfront, and received a free wine chiller. Ms Lee, who was a customer since July 2018, was surprised by the news and thought something was wrong when no one answered her call on Monday (27 May). “[The] number was unavailable when I called again on Wednesday. Only saw the post when I searched on Facebook.” Her order earlier this year was also delayed and the company also made a mistake on her order in March, which would have been correctly fulfilled in the past. Left with three more months of her subscription that can’t be fulfilled, Ms Lee said she will lose about $250. One of the subscribers who spoke to The Straits Times (ST) shared that they have already lodged a police report. This subscriber had signed up for the 12 months plan last November, paying an average of $143 a month, but she has only received four months’ worth of deliveries. According to her, The French Cellar blamed its tardy deliveries on the strikes that were happening in France, but she found that reason “rubbish”. Another customer Vulcan Post reached out to also had a similar experience. A corporate wine-tasting event held by The French Cellar / Image Credit: The French Cellar 33-year-old Roy Loi attended a free wine-tasting session The French Cellar conducted at a place somewhere in Cecil Street in April last year. He said that some 20 people attended the event and were given different wines and cheese to try. “It was a pretty good session. Not pushy. Very informative. Anyone [was] free to leave at any time,” he recounted. “And the sales guy, I think is one of the founders (sic), was conducting the event.” The software engineer told us he signed up after the session ended, so he’s been a customer since May 2018. He revealed that his subscription costs $84.53 monthly and he noticed in January 2019 that his order was delayed. Email issued by The French Cellar in April to Mr Loi / Image Credit: Roy Loi “They [also] missed my deliveries for February and March. I emailed them and got my wines after a few back-and-forths. They called me as well,” Roy said in a WhatsApp conversation with this writer. He lost about $168 so far as his April and May deliveries did not arrive. Roy was advised to cancel his credit card to stop the recurring charges, and he’s “glad” that he did not sign up for the annual subscription plan the company has been promoting, with the incentive of a free wine chiller. But he sincerely believes that The French Cellar sold good wines that was “value for money”. “Their service had been good up till January this year. So, I guess something must have gone very wrong by end-2018,” he guessed. What Could Have ‘Wine’ Wrong? Founders of The French Cellar / Image Credit: Qoo10 Founded in 2013 by Eric Joubert and Vincent Morello, The French Cellar wanted to make exclusive French wines selected by its sommelier accessible here. They dubbed themselves as the pioneer subscription company for wine and has delivered over 100,000 boxes in its five years of operations, their website stated. Customers can choose from three different tiers that suit their wine-drinking preferences. For the 12-month plans, monthly subscription fees range from $88 to $288. Those who don’t wish to commit to a year-long subscription can choose the “Pay As You Go” plan that starts at $108 per month, with the highest tier costing $328 a month. Every month, customers will receive two different bottles of wines with wine-tasting notes. ST reported that the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) had received five complaints against The French Cellar between 26 to 30 May, with claims worth a total of at least $5,000. It is highly possible that the business has been affected greatly by the “strikes” that happened in France. Based on The French Cellar’s email response to Mr Loi, we would assume that certain partnerships may have fell through, thus causing the “delays”. Going by the number of engagement on its Facebook, the company perhaps doesn’t have a wide enough customer base to sustain overheads. The business is targeting a niche market, seeing as they import wine directly from different French regions. Of course, accepting orders and money from consumers while knowing that their company will never be able to deliver is a dishonest move and only puts them in an even worse light. On top of that, announcing their closure on Facebook is sure to leave a sour taste in anyone’s mouth. The French Cellar’s website is still fully operational at the time of publishing. Featured Image Credit: The French Cellar

From the 154th media .... SINGAPORE - A parking officer skipped her patrols, claiming that she had to take care of her ailing grandmother - and tried to hoodwink her bosses by issuing summonses to motorists who had not broken any rules. To make them believe she was fulfilling her daily work quota, Noorasimah Jasman entered the registration numbers of vehicles without season parking tickets into an electronic record system, despite not knowing if they were even parked in the area she was meant to be patrolling. In what The Straits Times understands is the first case of its kind, she issued summonses totalling slightly over $1,000 to more than 30 motorists - before being rumbled by one of her victims. The 33-year-old was sentenced on Monday (Oct 15) to four weeks' jail after pleading guilty to 18 offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. Thirty-six other charges for similar offences were considered during sentencing. Noorasimah committed the offences in June and July last year while working in the Choa Chu Kang area for Ramky Cleantech Services, which offers enforcement services involving carpark gantries and parking spaces. It managed several Housing and Development Board-owned parking spaces. At the beginning of her shifts, she would meet her team leader to collect a handheld scanner and a daily patrol accountability form. Noorasimah was supposed to record on the form the number of vehicles checked and the number of summonses issued for each carpark she patrolled. She was required to check at least 60 vehicles per carpark in order to meet her daily work quota. However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Alfie Lim said that there was no quota on the number of summonses issued. She had to return the scanner and form after her shifts, the court heard. DPP Lim said that during her earlier patrols, Noorasimah managed to keep records of the registration numbers of vehicles that did not have season parking tickets. She keyed them into the Integrated Car Parks System (ICPS) - a parking offence management system maintained by the HDB, which Ramky officers had access to. DPP Lim told District Judge Kessler Soh: "The accused claimed that her grandmother, whom she takes care of, was in ill health around May 2017. Because she needed to care for her, the accused did not patrol the carparks assigned to her. "She... did not know if the vehicles had even been parked there, let alone if they had been parked in violation of parking rules. She thus caused the vehicle owner to be issued with summons in respect of parking offences which they had not committed." In June last year, a motorist received letters from the HDB over purported parking offences even though no one had driven her vehicle. She alerted the police and Noorasimah was caught. In all, 16 vehicle owners paid fines totalling $304 due to Noorasimah's scam. The HDB has since cancelled the remaining false summonses and refunded the fines. Noorasimah has lost her job. Defence counsel, Mr Chu Hua Yi, told the court that his client was deeply remorseful. She is out on bail of $10,000 and was ordered to surrender at the State Courts on Oct 31 to begin serving her sentence.

Look at the new topics created by newbies all in Chinese spam, power la... hahaha

i jus received an A$80 speeding fine (exceed by 13km/h) from Govt. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in a rented car. How? Can i don't pay the fine.....can they come after me or something like that? Can i visit Australia again ever if i dont pay?

Legit or April Fool joke?

US found out VW had been cheating in their EPA pollution test using a special ECU s/w setting in their diesel TDI engines. During test, TDI will auto set to "test mode" and run in low emission alogothim. Once out of the test setting (on dynamo) and on the road, the engine will revert to normal operating mode with over 40x the emission legal limit in US. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-19/volkswagen-emissions-cheating-found-by-curious-clean-air-group. VW stock dropped nearly 20% over 30% on NYSE on Mon when this was published early this week.

Hi, My apologies if I have posted in the wrong forum. Was away for the week and left my car parked in the MSCP. When I went and take my car today, I discovered the bumper and boot have quite a lot of white dots (paints spilled from the MSCP wall painting). Apparently, when they paint the carpark, my car was not fully covered. The paints have dried and I am unable to scratch them off. Does anyone have any advice on how to go about in removing the paint? Thank you.

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Haiz...haha. Poor bugger...

Angry donor confronted an old lady driving a new car. Donor even claim he skipped one meal just to give her $4 on one occasion.

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls

My car just got banged in the carpark. a nice Samaritan wrote me a note indicating the time and the number plate of the car that banged me. what should i do next? noobie here. please advise. will try to upload pics soon.

source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/eat-drink-man-woman-16/%5Bgpgt%5D-wife-caught-28yo-hubby-pumping-14yo-xmm-chiobu-4677484.html

People's Association website http://www.pa.gov.sg is hacked by a team of Brazilian hackers!

Came back late on Sat after mid-nite, circle twice MSCP, all fenced off, Top floor with heavy metals barricades / parked within my blk, all cars has been parked since UPgrading last 2 mths, Only my car kenna summoned -$100/ Can some one explain ? A) Summon Opicer likes my car B) Summon Opicer like the way I park my car C) Against Conti Car D) Another Conti car parked in front of mine, ' Bo Tio ' E) My Lucky day F) Buy My Car no. G) Write-in and gve em a @? H) Ignore it !

Just watched the news on channel 8. Can't find any link on local news website. Apparently a Singaporean Malay family kenna kidnapped at petrol station while driver go pay for petrol. I think got knife or gun.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/M...ory_795307.html Petite undergrad Natasha Wan Xue Wen took on four police officers, punching, head-butting and abusing them after a night out at the Zouk dance club. Wan, 24, pleaded guilty in a district court on Friday to using abusive words and criminal force on public servants and behaving in a disorderly manner. The judge called for a probation report and the next hearing will be on June 7. Assistant Public Prosecutor Harvinder Kaur told the court that at about 4am on Oct 26 last year, two officers were patrolling Jiak Kim Street in a police car when they saw a bouncer escorting Wan, her boyfriend Lim Zhao Ming and another man out of Zouk.

This is reported in CNA but here's the video. The girl can be seen crying " NO, NO. I dont know him ......." The public has been urged not to take the law into its own hands after a video widely circulated online showed Chinese men beating a British tourist they suspected of indecently assaulting a woman. Police confirmed on Thursday that a British man had been detained in connection with a reported attack on a woman in Beijing's Xicheng district at 11:20 pm on Tuesday night. He was taken to Xuanwu Hospital for treatment on Tuesday night and transferred to a detention facility on Wednesday. "The investigation is ongoing and further information will be released later," Zhao Feng, a police officer involved with the case, told China Daily. A spokesman for the British embassy in Beijing said the embassy was aware of the incident but had received no request for consular support as of 7:30 pm on Thursday. Edited footage of the alleged assault, which was recorded by a passer-by on a cell phone, was posted online and sparked outrage among Web users. After showing a foreign man standing over a crying Chinese woman and being confronted by a Chinese man, the three-minute video skips to a brawl between the foreigner and Chinese men and then jumps a second time to the foreign man lying unconscious in the road. Many Web users responded to the footage by praising the people who intervened in what police suspect was an indecent assault.

This time no misleading title hor

some time back i kenna a warning for speeding at 104km/h... no summon... phew... then recently kenna tis warning... anyone here kenna before or 2nd time tis kinda warning and may i know if its a fine straight away or the car needs to go for inspection?... thanks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFo9OzROkmA

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...801-292162.html f--kers la...take photo onli also cannot... why angmor so liddat... A family who wanted to take some photos at Botanic Gardens' Swan Lake Gazebo were shooed away by a group of Caucasians who claimed that they had 'booked' the venue. The reader, cheery, wrote to online citizen journalism website STOMP, saying that they saw a group of foreigners laying their mat in the centre of the pavilion with brownies and curry puffs. Thinking that they were about to have a party, cheery approached them to ask whether they could take photos at one of the four available benches in the pavilion. They were rejected by one of the foreigners, who said that they could not be there because they had booked the place. When they tried to verify their booking, they were shooed away and told to go to the information counter. "Upon our last plea for them to spare us just three minutes to take a photo, he replied rudely 'Which part of I've booked this place do you not understand!'" wrote cheery. The reader then went to the National Parks (NParks) information counter and learned that despite having a booking, they were required to share it with the public should they request it. When confronted and told of this rule by the NParks, cheery said that the foreigners became extremely rude and one of them even shouted that they had a right to the place since they booked it. "When he told his friends and family members about the incident, they even raised their voice and exclaimed, 'This is ridiculous!' "Thoroughly embarrassed by the ruckus and stares we have attracted, we eventually left without taking a photo," wrote cheery. Remind me of this scene

Hi there, I want to relate my unusual experience on hot afternoon. One bright sunny afternoon, I decide to take an afternoon walk around KOPI SUA since I heard it may not be around one day. The moment I turned off Lornie Road, a TP followed me. He followed me to the carpark just inside KOPI SUA. I parked my car in a shady spot. He stopped his car nearby. I got out and looked at him as though, 'hey big bro, any problem?' kind of look. He stared at me for a moment and got into his car. No word exchanges. I was alone and did my afternoon walk as planned.