Dear All,
Today, someone called my mobile number informing me that I have
been fortunate to win in a lucky draw. The lady spent some 10
minutes explaining as follows:
>> I have won a lucky draw from some shopping center
>> I need to personally come and collect the prize with my
wife
>> And attend a special 3 hour presentation of the
prize/s
To all of the above, I told her; "I know about such marketing
tricks, it's similar to TimShare scam some years ago. Don't you
know it's all over the INTERNET and everyone knows the
trick?"
She still insist that they're LICENSED, have Police Clearance, and
all that crap. I told her; "Of course you are registered, and what
has Police got to do with you if people merely gets entrapped by
your hidden terms in the Agreements they sign?" She ran out of
words and wanted to hand me over to her SUPERVISOR and I just hung
up.
Ladies & Gentlemen of this Forum, WE must stop this kind of
BULL-CRAP business from striving because of the following
points:
>> our personal details/particulars such as address, IC
numbers and contact numbers are not safe in the hands of such
people/businesses.
>> Furthermore, WHERE & HOW did they obtain personal
details from? Easy, those Lucky Draw Coupons you need to fill in at
shopping centers wherein if you purchase a certain amount you get
so many coupons. These coupons when the draw date is over, were NOT
discarded PROPERLY. I think they were sold.
>> This accessibility and IMPROPER handling of public's
personal details, MUST be brought up to the attention of the proper
authorities, so that these opportunistic businesses & or
companies, cannot capitalize on the ill-informed, and the less read
people in society.
The so called company that called me, reflected this number in my
phone xxxxxxx
