A SINGAPORE businessman has lost $20,000 for having been too
trusting of a pair of strangers.
Last Friday, at about 11.30am, the 55-year-old was in his parked
car after having been to a bank near Queen Street to withdraw money
to pay his employees' wages.
Just as he was about to drive off, a man and a woman approached
him, telling him that he had dropped some cash behind his car.
Believing them, he got out of the car, leaving the pouch with the
money in the glove compartment.
He went to the rear of his car where some $2 notes lay on the
ground. He bent down to pick them up. When he returned to the
driver's seat, the couple were gone - and so was the pouch with the
money.
A passer-by said he saw the couple opening the car door and
taking a bag out of it. They walked towards Bugis MRT station after
that. The man appeared to be in his 40s and his companion, in her
late 30s. They are believed to be Middle Eastern.
