Comments on: [Mailbag] A professional scam

By: GT

GT — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:24:48 +0000

hi, a friend of mine received a letter from Spain (Aspana, I think) announcing that she has won a lottery amounting to Euro 0.5 million.
She was asked to provide the details of her bank account so that they can transfer the lottery money.

I told her it’s a scam. Who do we report to for such cases ?

By: Limelite

Limelite — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:51:39 +0000

Hihi.. I just received that call just now. Would like to share, here goes:
That same calling experience, after giving my IC #, and she asked for my name’s spelling, after spelling half way, my "instinct" awaken, so I decided to give her incomplete spelling of my name. Same experience, that "male-police from Bukit Aman" call and something to freeze all my accounts… Then I asked him again my hearing date, he gave me and then hanged off… That’s my experience. : )

Would like to know, what do info of my name, Ic #, and name of bank can do wonder in cheating out my $$$? These are the info I gave. They didn’t asked for account number leh…

Why I sense something wrong?
The call is in Chinese. And the person’s voice in pure China Chinese.
I was thinking, if someone called from Malaysia Government, shouldn’t it be pure Malaysia Malay?

That’s all. Hope everyone is alright?

By: F.Khan

F.Khan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:11:03 +0000

Someone at my office received a similar call about about 12pm today and asked me to help. I was throughly suspicious from the start as the scam artist continually tried to exert pressure and fear on me if I do not cooperate in helping or supporting his case. I asked for all their details, including the name and serial number of the police. When I asked about his rank, he was stumped and just didn’t answer.

Then I just asked more and more questions until it came to a point that the so called police officer were out of answers. Then I told him, I am not willing to give my personal details and would go to the police station personally to check on the matter and hanged up.

I nearly picked up the phone to call the police when I thought I’d google this up using "loan shark scam Malaysia" as keywords. I found this blog and the series of events described are identical to what I experiecenced. Thank you for sharing this information.

I think everyone should always take a step back when they receive a call or is approached by a stranger that claims that they are from some authority and tries to intimidate them using that authority. Never give in to fear and always be suspicious. Ask as many questions as possible and give no answers, especially your personal information. Sooner or later, your senses and instinct will tell you that its nothing more than as scam artist and you will find a way to end the episode.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:48:33 +0000

hi, i just received a similar call to my company line, it is actually a recorded lady voice from high court asking to attend a court hearing. it actually got disconnected halfway, then the phone rang again, i picked it up and answer, after the end of the recording, u can press 1 to repeat or 9 to speak to the person regarding the issue. i pressed 9 and a chinese accent lady speak and says ‘this is the high court’, i asked what was her name and she keep repeating, ‘this is the high court’.. i pressed further for her name and she told me her name, but it was not clear, very heavy chinese accent.. i said, this is a scam, and i told her that i will trace the phone number she called from.. she hangs up the phone..
i hope people out there will be aware that this scam is goin around..

By: bayi

bayi — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:09:21 +0000

These are the parasites of our society who try to cheat others by striking fear of getting on the wrong side of the law into law-abiding (but blur blur) citizens. Bukit Aman should take a more proactive role in eradicating crimes like this. When the police keep accumulating reports without action, the criminals believe they can operate with impunity. :(

Now that the police have a good salary adjustment, let’s see some action!

By: Malaysiakita

Malaysiakita — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Another white elephant in the making? Ronnie Liu Police report on questionable RM1.81 b PKA/ Westports land deal Ronnie Liu What? The poem by Samy to AAB was a “cut and paste”? Roslan SMS For whatever its worth (38) S K Thew [Mailbag] A professional scam S K Thew Samy Vellu: I can’t guarantee you that there’ll be a reasonable toll Sagaladoola Underworld, RMP, Malaysian Government: An Unholy Trinity? Sagaladoola SMART Tunnel: RM 2 Toll Salvatore_Dali