Con Man on the Prowl

I work for a business centre and quite often people will walk into the office to enquire about our business services. One day, a guy named AC came and signed up for a visual office package. A couple of weeks later, we discovered that he had conned a few companies of thousands of ringgit.

He registered his company as a business consultant and invited tenderers for his so called projects which required them to pay a refundable deposit. He did manage to convince a few companies to participate in his tender and the amount collected was substantial.

One of his clients called us and was he very angry because AC could not be located and he wanted our company to be responsible for his deposit. I told him that we operate a business centre that receives and acknowledges documents on behalf of companies and was in no way partnered with his company in the business sense but he was still unsatisified with my explanation and he wrote the company a letter of complaint.

We do sympathize with him but we are not liable for any cheques collected and on behalf of companies. We hope AC will become remorseful and return the deposits accordingly to the relevant companies.

As the Administrator, I made a Police Report on behalf of the company. As a word of caution, to all those out there, please be extra wary when invited to do business by anyone. It's your responsibility to do a background check before issuing your cheques. It's your responsibilty and not the business centre.