Foreign Call Claiming I've won prizes

[Astro]

Been receiving calls lately from chinese speaking national claiming that I've won lucky draw prizes from Disney, TV station, etc. Does anyone experience the same ? The scam was widely reported in the news that I told one of the caller off. Not too sure why the increase in calls of such nature ?

[Mzrmazda3]

Think a couple of Bros here have kena before too in some other threads

 

Hao xiao one according to them and think they'll ask you to deposit some $$$ into an account before you could claim your prize or something like that

[Typhoonz]

NB... Mine was some Zhong Tian travel agency...

[Astro]

The funny part is that they contact the so call winner through HP number instead of land line which I would assume the latter to be obtained from telephone directory. For the former I think the number is through running sequence i.e. 90000001, 900000002,,,, That being the case what is their sunk in cost for overseas call ??

[Typhoonz]

All these hao siao one lah... Some more calling from some company we never heard of one...

[Nutty]

If you have the time, just play with them.

 

Make them waste overseas phone charges

[Xiao_qiang]

My sis kanna also..

 

She almost believed that she won 200K from the stupid scam!!

 

Until me and her BF talk her out of her "dream"..

 

Luckily in time if not she might have transfer 3K for processing fees.

[Typhoonz]

How come got processing fees to claim a prize? Tell them to deduct from the so called prize money lor...

[Xiao_qiang]

That is the thing!!!

 

My sis tell them to do so..

 

They tell my sis that they are a third party law firm to help the transfer of the money..

 

Then act like "u want you transfer if not you go talk to the company who is giving you the prize"

 

The "so called" company then explain they hired a law firm to do the transfer due to possible taxes issues.

 

I told my sis Bullsh*t, but she give the "its 200K leh,looks" .....

 

Until her bf said angrily, "we half half" I loss the money never mind but I want to just show you that it a scam..If true, you take all...

 

She then ok with it, cause heart pain cause BF angry on this...

[Typhoonz]

It's a load of bull lah... Usually if there are some fees involved, they'll auto deduct from the total prize money...

[Wanderer]

Then they will tell you "cannot..... it's the company's policy"

 

Alot of us tried many ways liao...... and they still call..... haiz

[Typhoonz]

We cannot prevent them from calling mah... So we just ignore them lor...

[Vyap]

I got a call, +8551111, it is so unusual a 7 digits no starting with 8, not in Singapore! I called Telcos to complain and not to charge for that scam

[Mikeyeo]

I also received 2 calls on my mobile from this same number +8551111. One was yesterday and the the latest this afternoon. The 1st caller was a lady and 2nd a man. They introduced themselves that they are from Hong Kong and spoke very fast Mandarin. As I used to travel to Hong Kong and China, I could distinguish that their Mandarin is more from China than Hong Kong.

 

I told them that I don't understand what they are talking about and asked them to send me by sms. Once I receive from them, I will report them to our relevant authorities.

[Rncw]

almost everyday kena calls from macau.

 

i asked the girl if she's offering to "zuo ai" for free.

[Albeniz]

If you have the time, just play with them.

 

Make them waste overseas phone charges

 

I am not that free, but I will still play with them to make them waste overseas phone charges, mine is free incoming.

 

I will just treat the long telephone session as a free Mandarin conversation practice session. Since they have a favor to ask from me, they would be patient.

[Usbobby]

Dont worry. When people call you, at most local call charges nia.

[Rncw]

they're most probably using some stolen accounts to call out and not tracable.

anything can happen in china,and everything is happening there