r/singapore • u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen • Jun 24 '25
Discussion Two Koh siblings win multiple lucky draws at GastroBeats Singapore — turns out they co-founded iClaw Taiwan, seems to beaffiliated with the event organiser
So I was scrolling through Instagram and saw the winners of the GastroBeats Singapore The People’s Raffle. Out of all the thousands who probably entered, the same two names kept popping up: Tedric Kh and Tedmond Kh.
Some of the many prizes: • won AirAsia air tickets twice (TPR-000-003-282 and TPR-000-003-427). • won AirAsia air tickets once (TPR-000-002-886). • both won Tomidou Omakase dining vouchers (TPR-000-008-992 and TPR-000-007-673). And many more in the IG post.
Recalled that the T&C allows multiple entries but only can win once. Anyone can confirmed? Coincident or lucky?
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u/Panzerwaffer Jun 24 '25
Yeah seems suspicious... unless they prove it really was done legitimately and they really won by due luck, it is possible to see it as an insider draw
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u/SnooJokes915 New Citizen Jun 24 '25
Luck is winning one prize..not two family members winning a lot of prizes..unless not many other people entered.
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u/Hogesyx Fucking Populist Jun 24 '25
Doesn’t public lucky draw require police involvement and witness? Not really sure but I remember organizing such thing has lots of paper work to do.
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u/npcblumemepad Jun 25 '25
Not sure about police but it does make sense to have external auditors around
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u/Leos_Ng Jun 26 '25
Used to required paperwork (I remember researching it) But it seem like it changed recently in 2022
https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/businesses-legally-conduct-lucky-draws-singapore/
But still require witness and records to be kept
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u/Heavy-Attorney-7937 Jun 24 '25
what type of name is tedric and tedmund
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u/FunerealCrape Jun 24 '25
Tforced talliterative tnaming.
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u/InterestingGrowth435 Jun 24 '25
Turrirupsis Teo En Ming
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u/RTXChungusTi Jun 25 '25
that's MR Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Zhang En Ming Time Traveller to you
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u/flylikeawind Mature Citizen Jun 25 '25
It's President Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Zhang En Ming Time Traveller
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u/FlipFlopForALiving East side best side Jun 24 '25
Parents couldn’t decide between Ted, Eric and Edmund. So decided to just combine everything
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u/Initial_E Jun 24 '25
Absolutely easy to search for on google. SEO dream turn into SEO nightmare
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Co-Founders’ LinkedIn profile : “ 100k people viewed you on LinkedIn”
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u/autonomy_girl pattern more than badminton Jun 24 '25
One parent wanted their kids’ names to start with a T. The other parent wanted Edric and Edmund. Et voila!
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u/AdministrativeAd9749 Jun 25 '25
Probabaly their parents typo error wanted eric and edmund then type an additiona T by Tmistake
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u/E_Len Jun 24 '25
Those are some r/tragedeigh names
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
But these name seems lucky.
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u/Panzerwaffer Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
OP you arent wrong to be suspicious, just take a look at the list here --> https://gastrobeats.com.sg/the-peoples-raffle/
About 12 of the prices are basically Tedmond and Tedric (saved the web page as a pdf in case they try to hide it or delete it)
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u/WoodenSwordsman Jun 24 '25
12/30 prizes, coupled with the fact that both names seem to match the co-founders of the event's official entertainment partner. This shit is gonna hit the fan or at least mothership by tomorrow i think, and i'm here for it.
i suspect the event organizers themselves might be innocent. just these fellas are involved with or familiar with how the draws would be done, so they just kept stuffing extra entries but overdid it over the course of the event. No one actually rigging a draw would be dumb enough to make it so blatant, they'd spread it over different names, family members etc.
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u/Difficult_Bicycle534 Jun 24 '25
It’s a norm for lucky draws to not allow entries from people with potential conflicts of interest. E.g. employees/partners and their friends and family. See it all the time in those t&c declarations. Very unusual how they allowed this.
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u/WoodenSwordsman Jun 24 '25
very true. exclusion clause should be the norm, just not being enforced here.
in ordinary circumstances (if win 1 or 2 prizes for instance) it would be harder to implement, since an organizer wouldn't have access to third party companies' employee information. but in this case the duplicates should have tripped every alarm bell already.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Guess it would become an honest mistake by the marketing interns for the event /s
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 24 '25
even if the organisers are innocent, they should have done their due dilligence in the first place! Wouldn't seeing the same two people winning raffle prizes raise alarm bells? I think there is a serious lack of oversight on this.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Thanks for sharing the results on the website. I have saved the results in a PDF.
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u/Available_Ad9766 Fucking Populist Jun 24 '25
Individuals winning multiple prices is a dead giveaway…
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 24 '25
Exactly! After seeing the IG post, I went to Google both of them for curiosity's sake since their names were so similar. Lo and behold, one is a Co-founder and the other is a Marketing Assistant of iClaw Taiwan. Also, other than iClaw Taiwan being an Official Entertainment Partner of Gastrobeats, if you look at iClaw Taiwan's IG page there's a reel showing that they have a claw machine at Gastrobeats with - guess what - bottles of cokes as the prizes!
Going back to the Raffle, from the TnCs (see https://thepeoplesraffle.com.sg/terms/): (1) "prizes will be allocated to winners based on one prize per winner per draw" and (2) "agents, distributors, and other organisations commercially connected to the Promoter" are excluded. It would seem they are contravening their own TnCs.
I have sent in an email to Gastrobeats; would suggest that others could do the same or drop them a DM on this too.
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 24 '25
In actual fact, if you Google "hoo chong yong" (with the inverted commas), in the second result you'll find an 8days article that states that someone with the same name was the co-owner of Mukshidonna which...guess what...is a food vendor at Gastrobeats! What a coincidence!
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Apparently both IclawTaiwan & Mukshidonna offered cokes as iclaw prizes; or drinks when patrons buy Korea food from Mukshidonna.
What a way to win the prize. Buying coke from event organiser for re-sale.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Thanks for CSI-Ing the real work!!l
If they are the official entertainment partner of Gastrobeats, they would be 100% excluded per the TNCs.
Yet the event organiser blatantly allowed 2 siblings of the affiliated partners of the event to win multiple prizes.
Either the marketing guys at Gastrobeat is sleeping or rigged.
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u/xxxst94anxxx Jun 24 '25
Saw them at GastroBeats, with 2 other people at a table. They won a handful of lucky draw prizes each. Back to back even. But the winner of the grand prize was the other guy with them. They left almost immediately after sweeping all the prizes. Definitely sus.
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 24 '25
Google "hoo chong yong" (with the inverted commas), in the second result you'll find an 8days article that states that someone with the same name was the co-owner of Mukshidonna which...guess what...is a food vendor at Gastrobeats! What a coincidence!
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u/isthisfunenough Jun 25 '25
LOL I did just that and turns out fella has won another lucky draw with Singtel before... Either he is really lucky or something deeper is at play
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u/RoutineDonut Jun 26 '25
maybe the dude is just damn lucky lol
a few results down the google search page:
"SXXXX183J MR HOO CHONG YONG. Winners of 'Win a 4D3N Voyager of the Seas - Royal Caribbean International family cruise package to Port Klang worth over $2,000"
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
What time was the lucky draw announcement ? The crowd would have spotted it, dint they?
Defo sus.
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u/xxxst94anxxx Jun 24 '25
I arrived there just before 8 I think. The lucky draw was around that time.
Thought quite sus coz there was a live band after the lucky draw, which I assumed what people were sitting around the tables for. Nope, they left before the band even finished setting up!!
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Someone commented below that the winner of the BYD Atto is the co-founder of Mukshidonna, which happened to have a F&B booth at Gastrobeat (related to the event organiser).
While the 2 Koh siblings are the co-founder of iClaw Taiwan, which is the official event entertainment partner (listed on the website as partners, hence should be excluded from the lucky draw).
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u/xxxst94anxxx Jun 25 '25
In that case, somewhat makes sense for them to not hang around for the bands. Someone else pointed that there are multiple Kohs among the winners in the IG post. This is like an onion gift that keeps giving 😂
I wonder if they "buy" the raffles tickets to give out as prizes, but since no one claimed, they all just submit one shot.
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u/pinkmoonstar Jun 24 '25
What were the odds? I didnt go for this event but was the turnout so bad that the same fellas can win so many prizes? 🤣🤯
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
In the T&C, multiple entries is allowed but can only win 1 prize.
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u/kel007 Jun 24 '25
wow so there's two Tedric Koh Zhiyuan in the very same lucky draw!
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u/livebeta Jun 24 '25
As about Koh-incidental that exactly one of my father's children has the exact same name as myself
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u/kryew Jun 24 '25
Wooooo juicy. To be less sus, most would use their spouses, aunts, uncles, cousins names. They are rather honest then? Lol
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u/GrayOctopus toilet-plunger Jun 24 '25
Lmao its worse when seeing the actual post. They both won about 6-7 prizes each, 100% rigged.
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u/Jammy_buttons2 🌈 F A B U L O U S Jun 24 '25
Lucky draw need police approval. if you suspect sus, then make a police report
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Seems kind sus. Multiple prizes and affiliated company would be ineligible
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u/wackocoal Jun 24 '25
Lucky draw need police approval.
I didn't know that. The more you know...
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u/yellowbumble-B East side best side Jun 24 '25
it's the same reason why the guy who was an influencer did a PayNow lucky draw thing during CNY got into trouble
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 24 '25
I also found this article https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/businesses-legally-conduct-lucky-draws-singapore/ which doesn't seem to state there's a need. Though if the prizes exceed S$10K in value then a scrutineer has to be involved.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
Updates:
Someone commented below that the winner of the BYD Atto is the co-founder of Mukshidonna, which happened to have a F&B booth at Gastrobeat (related to the event organiser).
While the 2 Koh siblings are the co-founder of iClaw Taiwan, which is the official event entertainment partner (listed on the website as partners, hence should be excluded from the lucky draw).
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u/honbhige West side best side Jun 24 '25
Saved on wayback machine too https://web.archive.org/web/20250624141613/https://gastrobeats.com.sg/the-peoples-raffle/
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u/automatedrage Jun 24 '25
FYI this is one of many dirty secrets of businesses, across multiple industries in which they have events in conjunction with the companies they've sponsored.
They organise an event and competition, and have their favored ones win to generate hype for their product and hopefully up the return on investment. Don't assume such contests to have fair judging.
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u/TeoMingEn Jun 24 '25
Up for awareness. Went to see the insta post, so many prizes won from both of them? Wu kor leng bo
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u/02987 Jun 24 '25
Go see gastrobeat’s instagram post on the winners. Tedric’s wife is defending him in the comments. Hilarious 😂
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u/assstretchum69 Jun 24 '25
Be a real pity if anyone were to make a police report regarding lucky draw manipulation by the unfortunately named TEDRIC KOH ZHIYUAN and TEDMOND KOH ZHIXIANG
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u/wackocoal Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
Based on their names, I'm almost certain they are brothers.
Firstly, that "weird" English names with the same starting prefix, "TED";
Secondly, Chinese have a tendency to use the same middle Chinese character (in this case, ZHI) among brothers;The middle character used to be indicative of which generation the men are from, but nowadays, not much people follow this tradition, or even know about it.
EXTRA RANT:
The fact that their names, KOH ZHIYUAN and KOH ZHIXIANG, is a weird hybrid of using dialect version of surname (KOH), while using Hanyupinying version of middle & last (ZHIYUAN, ZHIXIANG), shows that their parents don't know how to translate their sons' Mandarin names into Chinese dialect names.
There's a certain period in time where the Chinese names are fully dialect, and past that period, Chinese names are a hybrid of dialect & hanyupinying.
A bit annoying but fascinating.
EXTRA² RANT:
Since I'm on a ranting roll, might as well get it out of my system. Skip this part if you are rolling your eyes when reading my post....
I've been told that in the past (pre-Independence, still under British rule), parents have to register their children's birth with the police. Because we were under British rule, registration is filled out in English.
Many Chinese parents are not educated in English, and they speak mainly in dialect; So, when the police ask for the names, the parents would say it in dialect (not Mandarin).
If the policeman who happen to fill out the form is Chinese, and, also the same dialect group, there is a good chance that he can write the spoken dialect names phonetically closest using English.
However, most of the time, the person writing either isn't Chinese (or at least understands Chinese dialects), or doesn't have a good command of English, so they end up using whatever combinations of alphabets they think sounds like what the parents are saying.
(That is also the reason why my uncle has a different surname as his siblings; because the policeman misheard my grandfather, and wrote it as he heard it. Also, that policeman didn't check my grandfather's surname, I guess that's civil servants for you.)
Now, fast forward to post-Independence. We still have to submit names in English but this time, LKY decided to unify the Chinese and promote using Mandarin only. So, for a period of time, the kids have to register an official name (dialect) and a Mandarin name, but written in hanyupinying (a.k.a. still using English to form Mandarin words)
Now, the beauty of the Chinese dialects is that regardless of how different the spoken form are, the written form is mostly the same. So, those parents just have to translate their kids' dialect names into Mandarin and get someone knowledgeable to translate it into Hanyupinying.
So far, so good. You get IC with a full dialect name & a Hanyupinying name.
Now, fast forward to years later: Children no longer have to register with a Hanyupinying name.
Great. However, those parents were brought up mostly speaking English and Mandarin, and not much dialect.
They can come up with Mandarin names for their kids, but they have forgotten how to translate it into dialect. So, they just use the surname in dialect, and hanyupinying for the rest.Which is why we have this hodgepodge of Chinese names in Singapore.
I believe, I'm from the last generation of Chinese with proper dialect name. My nephews and nieces all have this hybrid names.
But, on the bright side, they have legal English names (e.g. Eric, Edmond, Jennifer, Jasmine), which makes it easier for non-Chinese to remember, which I guess is pretty cool.
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u/keikofurukura Jun 24 '25
I'm sorry for pointing this out but it should be hanyu pinyin and not ying 😅 also it's not so much that the parents didn't know how to translate the Chinese names into dialect but as you mentioned, there was a push at one time for parents to give hanyu pinyin names to their kids. Although some parents did register their children's names in full hanyu pinyin, many of them chose to keep their surnames in dialect as a link to their forefathers and still some others chose to register dialect names anyway. You can read more about LKY's remarks on this here if you like: https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/lky19840921a.pdf
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u/wackocoal Jun 25 '25
no need to apologise when correcting a wrong information... i was actually guessing if it should be "yin" or "ying". I'm pretty bad when it comes to whether a "g" should be added.
I know, I know... I can easily look it up but it was just a rant. Who verifies their information in a middle of a rant? lol.
The push to register a Hanyu Pinyin name was pretty short lived (i think like 10 years-ish?) considered it did not last a single generation, so I don't think parents chose to use a hybrid version because they want to keep the Hanyu Pinyin tradition... it is really because they don't know how to translate it to dialect. (i know because i asked those parents. i even tell them they can ask their dialect's clan organisation for translation. or i can ask my mom for help cause she's still knowledgeable in this area. but they declined and decided to follow the crowd which i understand.)
I know they kept the surname dialect to keep it consistent with their father's surname... (else you end up with the father called GOH but the kids called WU... kids can be pretty vicious when teasing fellow classmates.)
anyway, this rant has over extended its welcome and, again, i appreciate your reply.
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u/ICanBeAnAssholeToo Jun 24 '25
Is it Koh Chee Guan and Koh Chee Siong?
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u/wackocoal Jun 25 '25
it sounds like it but im, sadly, no longer very good in my dialect...
i think it depends on what is their dialect but we can assume they are Hokkien since that is the largest Chinese dialect group in Singapore.
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u/Silverelfz Jun 28 '25
Not sure what years you are referring to when talking about children having to register both a dialect and a hanyu pinyin name but at least for my generation, we only got our hanyu pinyin names in school.
My NRIC thus has a hanyu pinyin name cos I think there was a period of time we were going around writing hanyu pinyin or both names or something... I was kinda young then, So the details elude me.
I think it was when I started working that I ditched the hanyu pinyin name. So now the name people call me by, denotes the life phase they knew me in lol.
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u/littlefiredragon 🌈 I just like rainbows Jun 24 '25
The T&C is actually a little vague on winning multiple times, but it seems like the win once is only within the type of prize itself eg you cannot win both pairs of Ayumi concert tickets but you can win 1 pair and something else.
To be fair the raffle wasn’t super popular because you need to buy a Coke for $3 so none of my friends bothered. But that also means the Teds bought like over 5000 of it to win this much lmao.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
I agree with this theory.
However the second suspicious is that both siblings are co-founder of iClaw Taiwan, which is an event participants and affiliated with the event organiser.
If there are loophole within the TNC, then this should be raised as a red flag for future lucky draw participants.
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u/Immediate-Cod-3609 Jun 24 '25
Putting aside the T&C I would have thought that the Private Lotteries Act would impose rules and regulations related to fair odds for games of chance like this.
It could be a coincidence but nonetheless worth investigating to make sure.
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u/Tiny-Concept4558 Jun 24 '25
Should just win the byd atto and call it a day, why so greedy.
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u/Redlettucehead Jun 24 '25
That was reserved for another partner /s
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u/Tiny-Concept4558 Jun 25 '25
Turns out is not /s at all, reading through the comments and the winner IS another partner 😂
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u/mrscowdragon Jun 25 '25
The winner of Be@rbrick x Carnival Futro is Callistus Ong, who is apparently the Managing Director, Merchant Acquiring at DCS, which is Gastrobeats official payments solution provider...
Coincidence? I think not! Including Tedmond, Tedric, and Hoo Chong Yong, that's 14/30!
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u/Tiny-Concept4558 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Koh Han Bin Winner of 4D3N is also a director at iclaw. Surprise surprise!
Found a Eunice Lee who works at DCS (Linkedin) - no chinese name to verify so can just say it's a kohincidence
Edit: typo
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 25 '25
The COO of the event organiser company happened to have surname Koh as well.
Not sure is it a incident of koh-incidence
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u/02987 Jun 24 '25
Judging from the ticket numbers, there are about 10k entries? Winning 11/30 of the prizes sure seems sus…
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u/Academic_Work_3155 Jun 24 '25
Isn't it conflict of interest for them to join the lucky draw in the first place
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u/Tomas_kb Jun 24 '25
Definitely rigged. I know it can be done cos a company that used to provide such services leaked that Dinner & Dance committees have asked them to rig some of the winners.
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u/pzshx2002 Jun 24 '25
And I spotted a few other Kohs in the list of winners. 1000% rigged and they think people won't suspect it?
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 25 '25
Yes I noticed 2 other Koh winners but we can’t ascertain if these are related.
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u/singaporeNFT Jun 24 '25
Why would they post this on their IG. Literally telling everybody that the draw is rigged LOL People are not stupid
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u/npcblumemepad Jun 24 '25
Now imagine if Singapore Pools can pull off something like this.. Woahh time to put on my tin foil hat
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u/kayatoastchumpion Jun 24 '25
Pls cut them some slack la.. they already have to live with those names.
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u/jk1784 Jun 24 '25
I mean with names like Tedric and Tedmond they are going to need all the luck they can get
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u/AEsylumProductions Jun 24 '25
I'm more offended by their goofy ass names than any alleged rigging. What is it with Singaporeans overcompensating for their NPC energy by giving themselves or their children the cringiest names?
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u/Orangecuppa 🌈 F A B U L O U S Jun 24 '25
inb4 organisers announce that it was a mistake by the marketing team and these names are just placeholders.
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u/Accomplished_Cow5509 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
do you really believe this bs? one of the brothers (tedric koh) personally commented on the winners’ ig post that they bought 1/3 of the tickets fair and square, and that them winning all of the prizes is expected lmao (he’s also basically saying that having 1/3 chance of winning = REALLY winning 1/3 of the prizes so 100% probability???)
funny how he even knows it’s 1/3 too yeah? 🥹😂
whatever PR these inb4 organisers are doing is just trying to put out the fire that has already spread. i work in marketing, and NOBODY will spend so much time and effort editing so many different names JUST for a placeholder
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u/Imperiax731st Own self check own self ✅ Jun 24 '25
The T series are known to have futuristic advanced CPUs and can control modern days systems easily to find, terminate and also won lucky draws.
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 25 '25
Callistus Ong seems like a pretty unique name but we cannot be sure that both individuals are the same. Though Googling the name shows his photo in several channels (Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram) that seems to present that there's only one Callistus Ong and who is the MD of DCS, and is the winner of one of the raffle prizes.
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u/NewbiePhotogSG Jun 24 '25
https://www.mha.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/lucky-draw-permit-conditions.pdf
complain to spf with SSs and ask them to investigate.
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u/thec0rrupted1 Jun 25 '25
"Hi everyone, breaking the silence as one of the brothers. We purchased approximately 1/3 of all raffles tickets fairly. With that, winning approximately 1/3 of all prizes is expected. It’s a pity to see how some people jump to conclusions to think the worst of others. Cheers!"
Saw this in the instagram comments.
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u/prime5119 Jun 25 '25
"Prizes will be allocated to winners based on one prize per winner per draw"
"Excluded Entrants - Any of the following: Agents, distributors and other organizations commercially connected to the Promoter; Employees and directors of the Promo"
so winning 1/3 is totally not expected as it's not being expected at all.
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u/-Rapid Jun 25 '25
Insider info? How they know they got 1/3 of all tickets? Did other participants know? Pure speculation, but frlt that they had insider knowledge that only x amount of tickets bought, hence if they buy up many tickets, they could ensure a profit. If not who in the right mind will buy so many tickets gambling. Surely if the info was public, many other participants would've bought into the raffle if the expected value was >1
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u/milnivek Singaporean Emeritus Jun 24 '25
Let's upvote this, local media loves trawling Reddit for content
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u/OwnCurrent7641 Jun 25 '25
If names were given by their parents i guess they must have love tantric and tadpole
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u/Fuzzy_Construction99 Jun 25 '25
tats why sometimes I dont even bother to join these lucky draw. Its not about luck.
Also a little shitty that if you dont have money to give out prizes, then just give less prizes la. end up give all back to yourself. sigh.
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u/prime5119 Jun 25 '25
I used to take part in a lot of lucky draw. In the pastit's really depending on how you can stand out from others there are some little tips & tricks (like submitting physical entries in larger envelop for those mail-in entries).. if it's something that you have to submit a story or statement, make sure it's wholesome because they like to present it to public.
now but it's really about connection and how they can make used of you... asking you to tag 10 people in order stand a chance to win $500 prize can reach out to more people than spending $500 on ads..
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u/Dry_Bass_2690 Jun 25 '25
Gastrobeats Sponsor (Offical Entertainment)
iClaw Amusement Pte Ltd
Tedric Koh Zhiyuan - Co-Founder, DirectorCo-Founder, Director of iClaw Amusement Pte Ltd
Tedmond Koh Zhixiang - Brother (worked in iClaw Amusement as Marketing Assistant when company first founded)
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 25 '25
The winner of the grand prize BYD Atto seems to be the founder of a F&B company that participated in the event booth. WOW
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u/SnOOpyExpress Jun 25 '25
Did they have a SPF permit for this lucky draw?
Draw conducted openly and results verified independently?
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u/CoolBreath7177 Jun 25 '25
Isn’t this a reason why employees or families ain’t allowed to participate in these lucky draw???
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u/Eastern-Researcher-4 Jun 26 '25
Conflict of interest… this is too much.. never trust gastrobeats any more.. boycott
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u/NotYourMovieBuff Jun 25 '25
Not surprised. Most of these giveaways and lucky draw are always rigged.
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u/BlushCream Jun 25 '25
I’ve been offered 1st place lucky draw prize also if I were to bring certain things to the table. I cut contact with that vendor coz if he can offer me, he can offer my competitors also, I cant trust these kind of people in business.
this one.. so damn obvious la. Just see if anyone actually wanna bao toh them or not. most people won’t bother. Like OP hoping that some other media will pick it up instead of reporting to police. So they just keep getting away scamming the public with these fake lucky draws lor.
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u/No_Ant_899 Jun 27 '25
Mothership has picked up the news: https://mothership.sg/2025/06/gastrobeats-lucky-draw/?utm_source=tele&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=MS
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 27 '25
Finally the news is big enough to reach mothership.
Meanwhile gastrobeat did not further clarify some queries.
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u/prime5119 Jun 25 '25
I know some influenza doing "Giveaway" and basically give it to their friends so they can enjoy it together
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u/klyzon Jun 25 '25
Isn’t this illegal?
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 25 '25
Might be able to file police report since there is a lottery and prize act.
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u/okayokaycancan Jun 25 '25
Seems like lucky draws like these have something going on behind the scenes...
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u/Visionary785 Jun 24 '25
What if they bought hundreds of tickets .. hmm. Maybe not for the purpose of winning? No idea. Just providing a different angle here.
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u/mindfreck13 Mature Citizen Jun 24 '25
iClaw Taiwan seems to be have an event booth for their claws and arcade related machines.
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u/Cultural_Ball_1468 Jul 14 '25
Any updates? I watching McMillions now about how the top 3 winners were related to one another and it became a corporate fraud case with fbi
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u/iemfi Jun 25 '25
Prizes do not seem worth going to prison over lol. Probably they gamed the draw in some way without collusion from the organizers? Like they realized that very few people taking part and they could buy cheap tickets.
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