Scam - My 1st & Hopefully LAST Experience
You will never believe what happened today. I almost became a victim of a scam.
The stuff that we usually read in emails, i.e. snatch theft, phone scam, and what not, most of the time, we either trash them or just ignore them.
Only today, I feel the pain a lil...
I was late for work this morning, and the house phone rang. Normally I will not answer the phone, cos the people I know only call my mobile.
Somehow, I picked up the phone and there was a recorded message from high court informing that I did not attend to the previous hearing thus I need to attend for the 2nd session. For more information, press 9.
The message was recorded in Mandarin. Weird.
A lady answered the phone with a very fluent Mandarin, which is very uncommon. I requested for more details, but she claimed that she needs my name and id to check whose and what charges is it cos she wasn't the one that sent out the voice message.
I was suspicious, but silly me... still provided the details cos the intended might be my family (cos people contact them using this no).
However, upon giving her my info, she reverted that the charges were on me. I knew it was not right, cos if high court wants me to attend to a hearing, they will not call this no!
I asked to speak to officer that can speaks English - so that I can understand better on the charges placed. The lady reluctantly provided a phone no for me to call.
The no given is not a registered no and noone pick up the phone. After checking around, I found on the net that this is a scam that happens recently at many places, that some victims lost thousands of $$$...
I was smart enough that I realised that it was a scam, but was dumb to provide my name and id to them.
Nothing much I can do, except lodging a police report - to protect myself if they use my name and id for something illegal.
Lesson learned:
Read newspaper
Never give your id to anyone until you have verified their identity
The stuff that we usually read in emails, i.e. snatch theft, phone scam, and what not, most of the time, we either trash them or just ignore them.
Only today, I feel the pain a lil...
I was late for work this morning, and the house phone rang. Normally I will not answer the phone, cos the people I know only call my mobile.
Somehow, I picked up the phone and there was a recorded message from high court informing that I did not attend to the previous hearing thus I need to attend for the 2nd session. For more information, press 9.
The message was recorded in Mandarin. Weird.
A lady answered the phone with a very fluent Mandarin, which is very uncommon. I requested for more details, but she claimed that she needs my name and id to check whose and what charges is it cos she wasn't the one that sent out the voice message.
I was suspicious, but silly me... still provided the details cos the intended might be my family (cos people contact them using this no).
However, upon giving her my info, she reverted that the charges were on me. I knew it was not right, cos if high court wants me to attend to a hearing, they will not call this no!
I asked to speak to officer that can speaks English - so that I can understand better on the charges placed. The lady reluctantly provided a phone no for me to call.
The no given is not a registered no and noone pick up the phone. After checking around, I found on the net that this is a scam that happens recently at many places, that some victims lost thousands of $$$...
I was smart enough that I realised that it was a scam, but was dumb to provide my name and id to them.Nothing much I can do, except lodging a police report - to protect myself if they use my name and id for something illegal.
Lesson learned:
Read newspaper
Never give your id to anyone until you have verified their identity
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