ST Forum - Online 18 Jul 2007
Beware calls from this 'investment banker'
OVER the past four months, I have received four cold calls from
this investment banker and his assistant.
Their modus operandi is: A man with a Filipino accent will first
call you up by name (not sure where he got the information) and
will try to introduce you some investment products and will tell
you that his boss will call you in a few days' time to
elaborate.
I flatly rejected the offer but his boss still calls me up a few
days later.
His boss, a man with a heavy British accent, claims to be an
investment banker based in Hong Kong.
He will try to introduce you some investment products and if you
reject him flatly like I did, he will shout vulgarities such as:
'You f******g dumb, piece of s***!!' before slamming the phone
down.
This had happened to me twice albeit different vulgarities in both
instances.
I have called SingTel and was told that there is no way for it to
trace the call after he is off the phone.
Well, that puts us at his mercy. I wonder when he will strike
again.
Oh Lian Chye
I had received such a call. I told him I was in a middle of a
meeting but he refused to stop introducing his products. As
everybody was waiting for me, i politely told him i am in a middle
of a meeting and if he can call me back again. Instead, i received
the same treatment as the writer. I couldn't respond to him as
there were others in the meeting.
Anyway i couldn't even be borthered to trace the call but it makes
my day lousy.
