They had made one mistake.

In their careful planning, in all their forged paper and pre-loaded lies, they had forgotten to ask one simple question, the question that changed everything: what did I actually do, for those six years, in Singapore?

Because I was not a tourist who had been idly living abroad.

I was a senior risk compliance officer for a global logistics conglomerate.

My entire profession, the thing I had spent a decade becoming excellent at, the reason I had been able to earn the salary that bought this house in the first place, was the dismantling of exactly this kind of scheme.