After gaining the trust of the victim, the suspect claimed that he was a construction worker and had unearthed an urn containing gold pieces, old currencies, wills and letters from a worksite.
The suspect also claimed that he did not know what to do with the unearthed items and asked the victim for help. The victim also met with two suspects who showed him the gold items and provided him with a chipped-off sample from one of the items, to convince the victim that the item was authentic.
The victim verified this with a goldsmith and agreed to pay S$110,000 for all the gold items, only to discover later that the items were fake.
On Saturday, the police raided a rented apartment in Balestier Road and arrested four suspects aged between 32 and 44 for their suspected involvement in a foreign syndicate which sells fake gold items to elderly victims; seizing 191 ingots, four laughing Buddha statues, one old Chinese will, one laptop and seven mobile phones in the process.
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