Know Your Seller and Know Your Client: Avoiding Being Defrauded in a Property Transaction

Singapore High Court: Chu Said Thong and another v Vision Law LLC [2014] SGHC 160 A conman and audacious identity thief named Victor Tan fabricated an option which purportedly gave him the right to buy a property at Jalan Berjaya from Lum Whye Hee, its true owner. He defrauded a law firm (defendant) into acting…