Dear all,
I think these posts are very informative so I wana share my
experience with the same "Venetian" scam.
I got some calls from these chinese speaking ppl over a super noisy
background telling me watch the charity event on STARWORLD on the
23rd of Sep. I was at home then so I tuned in just to double check,
of course there was no such thing lah..(not sure why they would
name such a prominent channel when its pretty easy to tune into)
anyways, knowing by then it was gona be a fraud thing I played
along with them. When I mentioned that no such programme or
advertising about the show had been done here (I read the papers a
whole lot) the lady very smart lor, she told me what for they spend
so much money call me all the way from macau just to cheat me. So I
ended the call then by telling her that I was working and no time
to watch or go down.
Think by then they decided to target me further because I told them
I did not watch the show, so they assume Im just busy and ignorant.
So..yesterday this lady called 杨梅斯 Yang Mei Si phoned me again tru
a super noisy background, called to tell me that I won the 2nd
prize also..yes..HK$1million. Honestly, just to hear that I won
such a big amount whether tru anot is quite pleasing to the ears~
lol
Anyways, I questioned this lady alot and she even took the liberty
to make small talk with me ask me if Im gona tell my parents, if im
looking to spend a night at their hotel and even told me about the
beginnings of the resort etc..their business etc. At the back of my
mind I was really just thinking of how long they train themselves
to remember such information just to scam ppl! Very 厉害 lor.
lol
So I asked for email addresses, websites, web coverage, all she
couldn't provide for me. But she really never gave up! She then
proceeded to ask me for my IC no. Normally I would think its ok to
give, anyways when u participate for lucky draws its always the
mandatory thing to provide, but I was afraid they would use it to
create fake ids etc with the number, so in the end I requested that
they send me an official letter about the prize.
Perhaps now their running out of ideas because from others it
seemed like they blatantly ask you to go to macau or pay them a sum
of money for some tax thing. This one very clever, just tell me
that they dun need to send me the letter to state that Iv won, just
give them my address and they will send the cheque and I can bank
it into HSBC, and just mail them back the receipt.
Now Im gauging that they'll call me back again sometime next week
asking me if I've gotten their supposed cheque lol, I'm hoping to
come up with something to scam them back too..or at least waste
their time so they will have less time to target other weak folks.
I think we shld make this a headline in the newpaper or something,
coz at least it seems the bunch of us here are still net savvy
enough to look up on such scams, but those who don't may just
unknowingly fall into the circle of frauds.
Anyways, for those who also encountered the same thing or same
person,
I recorded the number that was used to call me and the number
(which is most likely fake too) for other's references.
They called me using this no: +234567890
Return number: 85366426739
