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Man cheated 62 victims from at least 12 countries of $383k in one of S’pore’s largest rental scams

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A French exchange student looking for a place to stay in Singapore contacted Gibson Zeng Xianfu after seeing his rental listing on Airbnb. Between Feb 8 and 13, 2022, the student paid $9,000 to secure the unit but before the agreed move-in date, Zeng, 29, claimed it was...

Details of these units were redacted from court documents.

Zeng asked for a deposit of $7,000, which the victims paid on Feb 15, 2022. He got the man to sign a document purporting to set out the terms of their rental agreement. In June 2022, a Belgian international student was similarly duped by Zeng after arranging to rent several units for five students.

 

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