Ohoho... i think i've been scammed today. At least they tried to.. and failed.
A unknown female called me this afternoon from a private number. I replied "Hello" and "who is this?" and instead they asked me if i could speak Chinese. I'm not really that good in it so i told them i wasn't interested in anything. Yet, they insisted if i could spend 5 minutes doing their survey or something and asked what model of hand phone am i using. Out of curiosity, i asked which company are they from and where are they based in. It was a big company in KL and their policy is not to reveal their company's name as to prevent me from giving biased answers later.
I asked what was the purpose of this call again and if this survey take long in English. She told me she couldn't understand and insisted that i continue this conversation with Chinese instead. Wtf! A big company in KL employing someone who doesn't speak english and talks like she's born in China.
Swt! Immediately i knew it was a dumb and badly planned scam!
My wish came true. I have been hoping for someone to try and scam me for so long... ya, i know. A weird wish isn't it. Haha.. I just wanna know how it feels like and why some people are still that dumb.
So, i just continued with the conversation. I told them the phone model and immediately she shouted "Kong Xi Ni ah", "Ni Hen Hao Yun O" and "Something Fu something Xin something". Lol. She told me i was the lucky winner of Rm500,000 and this was actually a contest and they disguised it by telling callers that it was a survey so that it doesn't spread.
I was practically laughing. Not because i thought i won, but really.. it's so funny. Then she asked me for my name, IC, age and particulars. Paiseh, i used your name Wei Len. I was wondering when they would eventually asked me for my bank account or something that sort and she finally did. I told her i forgotten and allow me 5 minutes to go take my account book. It's so obvious i didn't do so and i put my phone in loudspeaker mode. The girl was telling someone in the background "Kuai Kuai.. na pi lai.. wo men chong liao yi ke" (Fast fast.. get a pen.. we got one)
I continued playing my laptop after that and just see what would happen. 15 minutes pass by.. 20 minutes.. and i think the girl was getting restless cause she was speaking in chinese so fast, i couldn't get the words. After 25 minutes or so, she hung up.
I was laughing so loud after she closed the phone, rofl. I think she might be upset that she wasted her money calling me. But Wei Len say if she calls from overseas, i will be charge too. If that happens when the bill comes, i'm gonna kill her.
Anyways, that was fun. In your face, scammers! Hehe..
October 16, 2007
Miserably failed scam
Teoh Wei Jian at 10:57:00 PM