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Transcript (typed out by me, pardon any typos)

Report by:
SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB
The New Paper

He was dubbed the “ Ebay Millionaire “ after he claimed he had made a fortune buying and selling items online.

Benjamin Marc Wee Tshung Mun also used to conduct workshops and, in 2009, even appeared on a channel News Asia talk show in a segment on successful Internet entrepreneurs.

Wee, 40, who used to run an Internet commerce company knows as WTF, was jailed five months yesterday after pleading guilty to one count of cheating last month. Read entire article.

自称靠拍卖网站“电子湾”（eBay）致富，一名男子跟人分享网络买卖的诀窍后，建议“商机”诱使人上当，昨天被判坐牢五个月。

被告黄雄文（40岁，洋名Benjamin Marc）面对各一项欺骗和失信控状。控方以欺骗罪提控他，另一项由法官下判时考虑。

控状显示，黄雄文在2009年4月1日，以购买记忆卡为由，骗走一名男子梁中煌（43岁）2万5000元。 Read entire article.

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CONMAN:
Benjamin Marc Wee Tshung Mun pleaded guilty yeserday to one count of cheating involving $25,000

Transcript (typed out by me, pardon any typos) Read entire article.

Hi,

This post is for those who wishes to make a police report against the scammer Benjamin Marc Wee.

1. File your report here: http://www.benmarcweescam.com/police-report/
2. If you would like to share your story, please send a summary of your case to me at: benmarcweescam [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Below is the audio recording and corresponding transcript of Interview with Benjamin Marc Wee by Pearlin Siow in her book ” Asia Dragon – 8 Top Internet Gurus show you sure-fire ways to make money online !” . Of course we now know all the content are untrue but will just share it in its entirety. Important note: what they said is not true- so please don’t believe a single word they said in this interview.

Listen To The Audio Here

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Read The Transcript
(Full PDF HERE) Read entire article.

Is this the scammer’s new way of connecting to a fresh breed of victims?

In my personal opinion, no one would completely change a new identity from Benjamin Marc Wee Tsung Mun to Marc Huang.
The “Huang” being the chinese name for his “Wee” or 黄
Of course, if he is guilty and need a complete new identity to connect with other people.

I sighted Benjamin Mar Wee on the 14th June 2011 at around 12:30pm at ChangPing Dong Guan China (常平东莞).
I thus took a video of him.

A few points,

1. he shown no remorse in what he did as you can see in the video.
2. The lady in the video claimed to be his wife
3. he lost two tooth. (my guess is he got punched for owing too much money)

After the video, the lady asked me to sit down for a chat. I then turned off the video recording. It was sad that when I asked him about the money he owed me, he actually asked that  I myself owed him things pertaining to the company WTF PTE LTD.

Anyway, the purpose of this video posting is that since Ben Wee is bankrupt, and if he traveled without any approval. He should be facing a lot of troubles with the Singapore authorities.

In the video, there may be moments where I cannot control my anger, so please excuse my tonality and the sarcasm said.

Hi readers,

As promised that I’ll post up the evidence(court orders) when I find it.

The attached is downloaded from the Government Gazette, which is public domain.

The rest of the names have been blanked out for their own privacy.

Read entire article.

According to reliable sources, Benjamin Marc Wee has been made bankrupt as of 17 March 2011.

I will post up the paper work as soon as I get my hands on it.

To all readers, if you’ve been duped by this scammer that he can coach you to make money on eBay, you can contact me to report to the police.

As he is at all what he claimed to be, this is a case of outright cheating/scamming and such people need to be brought to justice.

Please contact me should you need any help.

Cheers,
Nicholas

Hi all,

I got the news from reliable sources (one of the victims) that Benjamin Marc Wee has been arrested.

The word ‘arrested’ was used, and not brought in for questioning.
It’s really heartening news to see that our Police force are doing their utmost best to bring down a scammer who had ruined so many lives.

From my deduction, this chap will be spending his lunar new year in Jail since he has no one to help and no money to bail himself out.
Keeping my fingers crossed on this.

For all other potential scammers out there, I hope this acts as a deterrence. You cannot run away from the arms of the law and there WILL be retribution.

Cheers and have a happy lunar new year!

Have found this document that Benjamin Marc Wee is supposed attend the hearing at 9am on 20th Jan 2011.

Attaching the document here (readily available at the supreme court website)
Unrelated names & companies have been blurred out to protect their privacy.

I will post more updates when I find them

One of his victims has come forth and sent us a copy of a promissory note that Benjamin Marc Wee the ‘Millionaire’ has signed.

Details of the creditor has been blacked out for privacy (creditor has requested anonymity). Amount has still not yet been paid to the creditor.

Click below to view it in full scale.

Hi all,

We received an email from Connie Ong and this is her side of the story.

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I got to know Benjamin first through an internet marketing gathering session. He came across as a friendly and generous guy and had expressed his liking for me after a few meet ups. We dated a few times and I slowly sensed that something wasn’t right.

Being a successful eBayer and millionaire, I did not see any signs and proofs that supported his status. Instead he came across as shabby looking (he calls it his carefree style) and unkept.

Till one day when he told that one of his eBay accounts got suspended due to delay payment for eBay fees, he asked if I can lend him one of my accounts to sell the stocks that he had on hand so as to get the cash flow moving. I agreed and lent him an account thinking that he can help me build more feedbacks as well. Sad to say after that, my other accounts also suddenly got suspended. I was shocked and told him what happened. He said no worries and he will get them reinstated for me easily as he knows people working at eBay office.

That wait took 2 months and nothing was done on his part despite my constant reminders. He gave excuses that eBayer office did not get back to him and he will ask again. I couldn’t sell anything for 2 months and in the end I had to write in to eBay myself and they replied within 3 days. After going through investigations, they reinstated my accounts but the one I lent to him was not given back to me!

Instead after confronting him he admitted to giving my account to a student who took up personal coaching from him to use! And they had changed all particulars to the student’s details! They sold illegal items like mercury dice and some magic trick stuff that was banned on eBay US and so that account got suspended and linked to me cos I am the original owner!

I trusted Ben that he was using it for his own selling for 1 or 2 weeks till he get his account back but who knew he did this! I was very angry over that incident and started to avoid him as I know he is not what he said he is and stopped answering his call and eventually no longer in contact.

He never taught me anything about eBay at all. I succeeded on my own by exploring and experimenting. He also used my ideas during his coaching workshops as I got to know from a participant who commented on my site that he taught them to sell using that idea. He also used my results on his own testimonial page.

I’m glad that my suspicions were right and I avoided him like a plague instead of ending up as a victim. The above happened 2 years ago and I just want to clarify that I have no affiliation with Ben whatsoever and am no longer in contact with him.

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This is the email we received from Connie Ong.

A video interview conducted by ChannelNewsAsia back in late 2009 on a story covering online businesses.

source: http://www.squidoo.com/millionaire-scams

eBay tycoon fends off fraud claims

Published on 18 July 2010, Straits Times
Reporter: Goh Chin Lian

Fake Millionaires
He claimed to have made millions buying and selling stuff online and even co-authored a book entitled Secrets Of eBay Millionaires.

Mr Benjamin Marc Wee, 38, has taken his expertise into the real world, conducting workshops, offering to coach people one-to-one, leading product sourcing trips to China and even appearing on a talk show on television.

But the eBay ‘millionaire’ is coming undone, with accusations levelled against him by at least five people and at least four police reports lodged.

He also has a court order to return $26,382.23 to one of his accusers.

Their claims centre on non-payment and unfulfilled promises. They said they paid him thousands of dollars for products, investment and personal coaching, but he failed to deliver and did not return their money.

One has even gone so far as to set up a website, posting a police report, a cheque voucher, court documents and Facebook messages from alleged ‘victims’.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, Mr Wee dismissed the accusations as a smear campaign against him and said he saw ‘no point’ responding to allegations on the website.

‘I can tell people, ‘Hey, I’m a very good person’, so what?’

In the interview last Friday, he told of how he regretted going off his tried and tested path of trading on the Internet.

‘I was, before that, quietly making money. Nobody bothered me. I didn’t teach anybody how to do anything. I guess that was a pretty good life,’ he said.

He wants nothing to do with WTF, a company he started with an investor in July 2008 and which used to organise workshops and China sourcing trips.

It is now only a ‘shell company’ with no staff, said Mr Wee, who is its sole director and shareholder.

As for the damning website, he claimed he knew about it, but had not seen it.

The last time he defended himself on an online forum, he said, it led to more criticisms and left him with a bitter aftertaste.

‘A lot of people will write a lot of not so good things. Other people will just jump in even if they don’t know me. That sort of thing affects me. It’s not a good feeling.’

Mr Wee said he was studying English and journalism in San Francisco around 1995, after completing his national service, when he started going into business for himself by making online forays.

But his big break came with selling PlayStation 3 consoles online in 2006.

It was a simple business plan: Source for cheap products overseas and re-sell them on eBay for a profit. He has sold everything from electronic goods to clothing.

But in the eyes of his accusers, he has fallen short.

Mr Neo, 43, who owns a few companies, including trading and IT businesses, sank $25,000 into a joint venture with Mr Wee on April 1 last year.

Mr Neo told The Sunday Times that he was supposed to get back his $25,000 working capital in three months, or by July 1 last year, and receive 50 per cent or $12,500 a month from the fourth month on.

Except that a month later, he was asked for another $15,000, which he turned down.

Said Mr Neo: ‘I declined the offer since I had not yet received the promised payout from the initial investment.’

On Sept 6 last year, he said Mr Wee asked him for a $3,000 loan and, in return, promised to pay all that was owed to him at one go.

‘When I asked him why he as a multimillionaire did not even have $3,000, he told me that all his money was ‘parked’ offshore… and he had ‘miscalculated’ his incidental expenses,’ he said.

He parted with the money.

But when he did not receive any payment from Mr Wee apart from $2,900 in October, he tried to reach Mr Wee on the phone. After several tries, he got Mr Wee on the line. Mr Wee would promise to pay up. But did not.

He wondered if the $25,000 was actually used for the business.

Mr Neo has taken out a court order against Mr Wee to pay up.

Asked about these claims, Mr Wee’s first remark was: ‘Very interesting.’

He claimed the money was spent – on buying SD memory cards, opening a bank account in China and hiring people there, among other things.

He also claimed someone later drained the bank account dry and took the remaining stock of SD cards.

‘I’m trying to settle with him, but honestly, I have been travelling so much and every time he sends me a lawyer’s letter, I’m not around. I will try to settle when I come back. I wish these people will just talk to me.’

Mr Wee is a hard man to reach, going by what his former clients told The Sunday Times.

They claim this was especially so after they had paid him or questioned him on unfulfilled promises. Again, he shrugged off their claims, saying he changed his phone number ‘four, five times’ last year.

‘I change phone numbers very, very often not because I want to hide from anybody. But usually I keep on losing my SIM cards. You must understand I travel a lot… and I don’t really do roaming.

‘I’m a bit of a klutz. I go to China. I buy a SIM card. You know it comes in an envelope, right? So I will take my own sweet time, put in the envelope and then I will take my new SIM card and put there. Sometimes I leave and I forget the thing. I mean, it looks like just a piece of paper.’

He hastened to add that they could have reached him by e-mail or on his Facebook page, where he always updates his latest phone number.

He also told this reporter later: ‘You can contact me. Was I that hard to find?’

But is business bad now? Does he have cash-flow problems?

‘I’m actually invested in something else right now, so the answer is yah, lah.’

He claimed the investment had to do with a device that could use multiple SIM cards.

But does he have the money to pay his supposed debts? He said: ‘Actually, I can work something out.’

He attributes most of the tangles he is in to his inefficiency.

‘I’m just not the most organised person… I sometimes make three appointments at the same time.

‘I’m also not the best person with money, meaning that I’ve got money, here, here, take, take,’ he said, motioning the act of giving out money.

His accusers, however, would have been happy with that.

Other allegations by clients, partners

Their claims centre on non-payment and unfulfilled promises. They said they paid Benjamin Marc Wee thousands of dollars for products,investment and personal coaching, but he failed to deliver and did not return their money.

Mr Nicholas Foo Ming Chern, 30

He claimed that in August 2008, Mr Wee got him as a partner to run Internet marketing projects.

But over several months, Mr Wee kept issuing cheques which bounced.

He claimed Mr Wee owed him and two others about $80,000 in retainer fees and company expenses that they paid out of pocket, by the time they parted ways in August last year.

Last month, Mr Foo, who runs product sourcing trips to China, set up the website levelling accusations against Mr Wee.

# Mr Wee: He claimed he pumped in money from his seminars into the company when the business was not doing well, while the others did little to drum up business beyond organising the product sourcing trips to China.

He felt the amount they demanded was too much when he wound down the company. ‘They added all these things which, honestly, I didn’t feel they had any right asking.’

He also claimed he had given instructions not to bank in the cheques yet at the time.

Mr Wandy, 26

This account manager from Medan, Indonesia, gave Mr Wee $8,500 to buy 10 iPhones in May last year, but has yet to see them.

Mr Wandy, who came here four years ago and is a Singapore permanent resident, chased Mr Wee for the phones, but each time he gave reasons like the phones were stuck at customs, or had battery or SIM card problems.

He asked for his money back, but Mr Wee stopped replying to his SMSes and answering his calls.

Mr Wee: He claimed he made the purchase for the iPhones but the Singaporean seller disappeared. He said he knew the seller only as Ryan.

Asked if he will pay Mr Wandy back, he said: ‘I’m just the middleman.’

‘If he wants to contact me, I’ll see what I can do,’ he said adding that he did not have Mr Wandy’s phone number as he often loses the SIM card for his cellphone.

Mr Kelvin Loh Kia Meng, 30

The forex trader paid Mr Wee $9,997 in 2008 for one-to-one coaching.

He claimed Mr Wee assured him that after several months of coaching, he would be able to make a five figure income every month.

He had no more than six sessions with him over six months with little results – about $1,000 in sales, he said.

It was difficult to contact Mr Wee for more coaching sessions, and they met only another two times, he claimed.

Mr Wee: He claimed his personal coaching is for a lifetime, but he would spend more time with a person in the beginning and less time later on. Also he says he must get along with the client.

‘I wasn’t aware he was unhappy about it,’ he claimed.
Still a millionaire?

The string of accusations against Mr Benjamin Marc Wee has caused parties like Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group to distance themselves from him.

It has stopped distributing Mr Wee’s eBay millionaires book published in 2007, which its executive director, Mr Stuart Tan, had edited.

The education company had in 2008 stopped marketing his two-day programmes when demand for them fell, Mr Tan, 36, said. ‘It has been over a year since we last met, so we can’t verify if Ben is still considered an eBay expert,’ he said.

Asked about his personal life, Mr Wee said he is currently putting up in a HDB flat in Serangoon that is ‘not under my name’.

He said that he has rented out his three-room HDB flat in Commonwealth Crescent.

He spends a lot of time in Hong Kong and China, he said, adding that he would rent a place there as the rates for a ‘nice condominium’ are as cheap as 1,800 yuan (S$365) a month. He plans to fly to Shenzhen soon to source for electronic products.

He does not own a car and gets around in taxis as it works out to be cheaper, he said.

Asked if he could still safely describe himself as a millionaire, he said: ‘I have got money. You put everything together, including the property I have, it’s more than $1 million.’

source: http://www.squidoo.com/millionaire-scams

Some one came in and commented on one of the posts.
I decided to put it up as a separate post…

Check it out…

this is really new to me. I didn’t know. So now we know his character. Apparently family ties don’t count for much with this person.

Looks like Benjamin Marc Wee is on Today’s Singapore Straits Times (July 18th Sunday – Page 6-7)

Full Straits Times report here

Be sure to check out his claims and stories and note the excuses and ‘reasons’ he gives to the reporter and judge for yourself.

If you are new here and wonder who is Benjamin Marc Wee, you can click here.

Be sure to leave your comments!

UPDATE July 18th Sunday - Benjamin Marc Wee has since deleted ALL of his Facebook posts, removed his ‘Wall’ and has since hidden his ‘Friends’ list. Check out Benjamin’s Facebook Profile.

He only has $1.07 in his bank account

Comment: So do still you believe he is a millionaire?

As posted in the another post, Benjamin Marc Wee claims to makes at least $13.7K per day.

So if a person who makes $13.7K per day. Why would he resort to borrowing $3K from someone?

The story is that Benjamin approach my friend and was VERY desperate on borrowing this amount of money so that he can buy an air ticket to Hong Kong.
According to my friend, he was almost to the brink of tears when he was ‘begging’ for the money.

Question: Would a multi-multi-millionaire, someone who makes at least S$13.7K per day need to borrow $3K from someone?
Question: Would a normal working class person have at least $5K in his bank account?

By the way, Benjamin defaulted on the payment. He did not managed to return the money on the agreed date.

What is the objective?

Ben Wee took alot of money from the company account to pay for his mother in law’s surgery at Raffles Hospital.
NOTE: This fact can be verified on WTF’s accounts. Monies has been made, paid out directly to his name and the monies was never returned to the company.

Questions:
Doesn’t a millionaire have enough money to pay for the surgery?
Doesn’t the medical system in Singapore allows you to pay for the bill later?
Doesn’t his high ranking father in law have enough to pay for the medical bill?