September 04, 2006

Of Timeshare scam artists

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crimeshare said:

To those of you living in Singapore, and who have yet to get that annoying telephone call, a timely warning of a timeshare scam from a company calling itself "GreatConcepts" and claiming to represent a "sponsor" named "O.T. Travel" or, as I have come to find out is in actuality "Oriental Travel". The anatomy of the scam call is as such : 1. Some chap calling claiming that you've won a IBM notebook computer valued at $4,000; they sent the notice to you - didn't you get it? No? Well, they auctioned the "prize" off because it was unclaimed (yeah, you and 2 others who didn't claim their prize). They supposedly even have an advertisement in the local paper highlighting the prize (Wow! Can't believe you didn't see that ad. Well never mind, they have a copy they can fax to you).

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "I got called up just yesterday, and yes, I wised up having my intuition tell me it was a scam.. (yes, it was an osim chair and $4000, that I allegedly forgot to claim)"

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[jseng: Link removed since the domain name has been taken over by someone else]
Submitted by Anonymous Coward on September 01//11:39am and published by cowboycaleb, LMD :: 293 comments | 73623 reads | trackback (1)

September 19, 2005

Scam!

Loveless Deejay said:

a msn friend of mine kanna 'talent spotted' by her msn pic.. then the 'talent spotter' ask her for price. like 1.2k for a 5 min webcam show for 'her'? well well.. then i myself tried to step in by asking her to invite me in to talk with them after changing my avatar and nick to xiao lian. manage to talk a while. but in the end she end my conversation. knn. due to she suspect i am a guy. then my friend pull me into another window, with another 'gal' Mel, which is supposely to be one of her models, trying to talk to my friend to it.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "I heard of this MeiHui scams a few times by my female msn friends. The MeiHui will try to bluff the girls that she is from some model agency called Creaxtive and say they are actually talented scouting for models for assignments. Then will require them to wear low cut clothes show them thru webcams or digital photos. They will claimed to transfer money to their account, saying they can earn 3k per assignments. Scams. And sometimes a girl will join in to persuade the victim to join. This blog show how sly the MeiHui is after learning that the person is a guy and slip away. Girls beware!"

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on September 19//12:32pm and published by jseng, mb :: 1 comment | 1329 reads | trackback