The Urban Redevelopment Authority ( URA ) has issued a warning about a swindle involving a letter that private homeowners were sent requesting their tenants ‘ tenancy registration.
Private homeowners are required to transfer a “validation fee” to a bank account in order to “register their tenants,” according to URA in an advisory on Thursday ( Dec. 5 ).
The letter contains URA’s logo, physical and website addresses, and is signed off by an” Andrew Chia” claiming to be the ,” Head, Registration of Lease ( Consumer )” of URA.
According to the power, the notice is not from URA, adding that URA does not need secret homeowners to record their tenants.
” We also do not need verification costs to get paid”, URA said.
” In contrast, there is no’ Registration of Lease ‘ office nor team named’ Andrew Chia’ in URA”.
The government is advised to be watchful of scams, and URA has requested a police report on the situation.