Today I'm gonna do quite a long post. There is a trend in Facebook recently regarding a guy who scam by doing car rental. And very unfortunately, I am one of the victims.
And the story starts like this. I got to know this guy, he told me his name is Caeden Tan (which is not his real name), and his Facebook account by the name of Wei Sheng. He was introduced by my best friend because I was having a headache due to my Hyundai Tuscani is due to scrap. I had to change car and my best friend intro him to me because she know that Caeden is doing a family business by dealing with second-hand car. So naturally, I contacted him to see what he can offer. At first he told me what cars he had and then he changed topic to his personal life. He told me that he live in Sixth Avenue and owns quite a lot of luxury car. So as a Financial Services Consultant, I naturally fact find a bit more about his finance. He pictured himself as to wealthy rich kid to me and I thought that he will be prospective. So I continued to believe what he said and met him up the next day to discuss about my car.
Despite knowing that I stayed in the west of Singapore, he wants me to meet him at one of the coffeeshop in Lorong Ah Soo in the late morning. I still went down. After talking to him awhile, I told him that I need to go and meet my bestfriend for lunch and he told me that he will bring me go Turf City to see cars from his friend's shop. So I told him that I will go down there myself with my bestfriend. He kept on telling me to leave my car at my best friend's house and he fetch me go. But I rejected him. So he had no choice but to wait for me in his car at Turf City for at least one hour.
During this one hour, he keep spamming me calls and whatsapp messages saying that he had reach Turf City already and asking me what time I will reach. I told him that I was having lunch so will reach there around 3.30pm. But I still take my time to have my lunch and slowly go down to Turf City with my best friend. So when I reached there, he showed my the way to his friend's shop. I told him that I was looking at Honda Civic 1.6 or 1.8 which left around 2 to 3 years and his friend's shop has one. So I test drove the car with him, my best friend and one of the salesman. Probably I've been driving a 2.0 car for quite long, so a 1.6 Honda Civic is not attractive to me. I didn't reject it on the spot after the test drive but I went to another shop to see instead.
After I left his friend's shop, he kept calling me to see where am I. So I just told him that I went to another shop. He scolded me saying I throw his face in front of his friends by going to other shops. So I told him that it's my decision whether to buy from his friend or not. Even if I don't want to buy his friend car, he also can't do anything to me because I am the customer and I am the decision-maker. So whether he feel "throw face" or not, it is not taken into my consideration whether to take his friend's car. After all the viewings, I need to rush for my appointment and he asked me whether wanna go chill with him and asked me to put my car in Turf City and he drive me around. Of course I rejected him and asked him to find his own program. And that ends the day of his bullshit.
Two days after that, I was at one of the coffeeshop in yishun alone and he asked me whether wanna brunch with him. So I agree. He came over to yishun and told me to not to drive and he fetch me and I also agree. He brought me to a garage in Ang Mo Kio to collect "his" WRX because he send there to do some modification. He told me that he forgot to bring out his wallet because he rushed out to meet me. BULLSHIT! He asked me whether I got enough cash to help him pay for his WRX and I told him NO. So he wrote a cheque to the garage. At first, the boss don't want to accept cheque. But he told the boss that he can leave his car or call him to make the boss believe that the cheque won't bounce. He even told the boss that he owns a company and scared the cheque will bounced meh. So eventually, the boss accepted his cheque.
Picture source from Facebook. I think the garage boss should be cursing and swearing.
So after the garage, we went nearby to eat. I had to pay for his food and drinks and a pack of cigarette. He told me that he will transfer the money to me so I stupidly believe him and pay for him. After that I told him I need to go back and he fetched me back to yishun. On the way to yishun, he stopped the car and asked me to drive his BMW. I only remember his carplate number is 335. So I drove the car back and collect my own car. During the journey, he asked me whether can lend him some money for the day because it is very far for him to go back and take his wallet. So out of goodwill, I lent him $300. At was he was asking for $200, while I was at the ATM, he whatsapp me to ask for $100 more. And I did. Stupid me. He asked me for my bank account number to transfer the money back and I gave him, but nothing was transferred to me. I'm damn pissed off. He gave me a lot of stupid excuses to delay the payment.
He still asked me whether can use my name to sign handphone lines as he as 9 lines under his name. And I rejected him as well. He delayed a few hundred dollars and still dare to ask me to sing handphone lines under my name. If I did that, I can go kill myself.
His latest Facebook account is Caedence Lim.
Let the screenshot says the story.
He has gone MIA since then and I have given up on chasing my money and treat it as I buy a lesson. Until recently, I saw a Facebook post from his ex-girlfriend posting and his scam and the posts has 700+ comments. After reading the comments, I realized that I'm not the only one scammed by him. There are a lot of people also being scammed by him. From the comments, I know a lot of things about him. I know that his real name is Allen Tan Wei Loon. And he went to find a lawyer to change his name to Kyoshirocaeden Tan Lee Yu. I'm wondering whether he really went to find a lawyer to change his name or somehow just forged it out.
Picture source from Facebook
He even went to jail before for car rental scamming. How come there are such people who are not scared of being caught again? I don't understand why. His brain got mould or got water?
Picture source from sammyboy forum
Actually you can just type his name in google and you can find a lot of search result about him.
He also has an Instagram account.
From the Facebook post, I know that he's married and have 3 children. His actions of fooling around with other girls and made other girls pregnant is nothing new to his wife.
Latest news is this guy has been arrested. Don't know how long to will be locked inside. But in case this news is false, ladies, beware of him and keep a far distance from him as he will want your body and money. Guys, beware of him too because he will want your car and money.
By the way, he's in the Xin Ming newspaper on 24th July 2015.
Now let me end the post with a picture.