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Driven

Driven

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I do not know if this is a new trick.

 

This morning received a call, a chinese speaking lady identified herself as a staff from Spore High Court requesting me to attend a court case on nov.....2007.

 

She explained the nature of the case..... This man .... .... .... (accused) was arrested on July 07 and the police found my details in his book and therefore im implicated in this case. And that i need to prove my innocent. WHAT RUBBISH!. I followed to ask who is the IO of the case. She mentioned a CID man Yo Kee Chong is incharge. Immediately , i requested to speak to him.

 

Soon after, this CID Yo called and again speaks in Chinese. When i requested him to speak in English, he asked me " is it important to speak in English" . Asked of his rank, again rebutted me again. I couldn't take his nonsense, i ask him to hang up the phone unless he speaks in English. He hanged up. His colleage called and refer to the case and again, tried to threaten me not to speak in harsh manner to him. I shouted at him to hang up befor he get into sxxt! He challenged me to call back a number..... I told him to stop their nonsense.Told me i was an ex CID and i will proceed to trace them. Then he shouted back... Good.. you are also CID... and then the phone went silent. He refused to talk, paused for a while , i shoot #@+#@#@#@*** to his ear and hung up.

 

Bloody stupid trick. Unfortunately, i m a gd target.

 

Badness..

 

If im involved in any case, wouldnt CID had called me much earlier instead of immediate summon to court. SHIOW !

 

Any investigation would have conducted by then, not now.

 

Any way, i duno what they are up to. May be to catch fearful victim to pay up some fines and likewise.

 

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Adrianli

Adrianli

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FYI :

 

 

Check it out. This is posted on the police website.

 

http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2007/071018_supcourtphonescam.htm

 

 

Remember to inform your relatives & family abt the different scam

 

nowadays

 

Hi,

 

I would like to tell you what happen to me yesterday - 24/10/2007.

 

About noon time, there is an incoming call to my office direct

 

line. When I pick up the call, it was a voice

 

recorded message that said, "You have a message from the Supreme

 

Court. Press 9 to listen to the message." I

 

pressed 9 and it was transferred to an operator that answered by

 

saying, "Supreme Court reception, can I help

 

you?" I told her I received a voice message from Supreme Court

 

telling me to press 9 to listen to that message.

 

She proceeds to ask me for my name and I/C number. So I told her

 

and it sounded like as it she is keying in and

 

paused awhile and told me I had a notice from Supreme Court with a

 

charge of working with "Ah long" (Illegal Loan

 

sharks) to open 2 bank accounts for them and the Supreme Court had

 

already sent me Court summon letter to me.

 

I was so shocked and told her I did not know any loan sharks and I

 

will never do that and I did not receive any

 

letter from Court at all. She told me for that I'm one of the

 

person who is involved in this illegal act and if I

 

want to verify my case, she would get the CID police in charge of

 

this case to call me.

 

In less than a few minutes, I received a call from someone who

 

claimed to be a CID officer looking for me. I

 

answered him I am the person he's looking for. He told me that on

 

such a date, the police had cracked down and

 

napped a "ah long" (Illegal Loan Sharks) and in his house, they

 

found a name list containing several bank accounts

 

open by a group of people and I happen to be one of them. I was so

 

socked and told him that I never would do such

 

a thing and I do not know any ah long or loan sharks at all. He

 

then challenge me and told me, "do you want to see

 

the evident we got?" I told him, "Yes I would like to come down to

 

your police office to see it because I did not

 

do that." I then asked him to give me the address, which

 

department he is from and his name so that I can go down

 

to see him. He gave me his name is Officer Khoo Boon Hui at Police

 

HQ. CID Tower. Blk C, level 5. His office

 

number is 6435 0000. However he quickly change the subject and ask

 

me a few questions to pretend to be

 

investigating me. He asked me have I lost my I/C, Bank account

 

book? I answered No. He then asked me did I let

 

anyone photocopied my I/C or Bank account book? I thought for a

 

while and answered him I did a few months back at

 

DBS Bank when I thought of opening a Investment Account.

 

He then told me that it could be due to corruption, the bank

 

officer may have sold my data to the Ah long (loan

 

shark) in return for some cash. He told me since from his

 

investigation he assume I'm innocent and one of those

 

whose I/C and bank data the ah long (loan shark) obtained from

 

corrupt bank officers to make false ID and bank

 

document to open bank account, he would fax my case to a Supreme

 

Court office to further investigate and present

 

my case before the Judge. As such there is no need to go down to

 

see him at the police HQ he said. He told me he

 

will get the Supreme Court officer in charge to call me and

 

further arrange how she can help me to plead with the

 

Judge together with those innocent parties that had been framed.

 

From the voice of that man officer who talked to

 

me, I can tell his speaking accents sound like from China. My mind

 

was so confused and troubled after hearing him

 

talked to me all these things I did not question that at the

 

moment.

 

In a while time, a lady called me on my mobile phone saying the

 

"CID" who had earlier on investigated me had

 

called her and told her about my case. She would need me to

 

cooperate with her in further investigation. She told

 

me that she would need to begin to do a series of questions she

 

need me to answer honestly. All my conversation

 

with her will be recorded as Court evident. It's so professionally

 

done that you think you're really going through

 

a investigation answering those questions like did you disclose

 

any of your bank information, documents, ID to

 

anyone? Did you loss your passport, ID, bank book, credit card?...

 

At the end of the series of questions, she told me that they are

 

working together with international police to

 

crack down these illegal ah long loan sharks organization that go

 

around corrupt bank officers to sell their

 

customer's bank information, photo copied ID document to do fake

 

IDs, passports, and open bank accounts for them.

 

She told me that right now just because I said I'm innocent it

 

doesn't prove anything. She need me to do one last

 

thing. She asked me how many bank account do I have and how much

 

money I have in my bank account. She said she

 

need me to cooperate with them to check my bank account to see if

 

there's any activities transactions that are

 

unusual. She need me to go to Bankok Bank at Cecil street to TT my

 

bank account money to this "International

 

Police" account to monitor and protect my money for me as my bank

 

account is no longer saved as anytime it could

 

be frozen. If I am really innocent and has nothing to do with any

 

ah long organization, I would cooperate with

 

them to help them catch any party that is using my account to wash

 

black money for them. If I don't cooperate with

 

them to TT my money then it is clear to them that I have something

 

to do with ah long organization and she shall

 

turn me over to the Judge straight away to pled me guilty and

 

sentence me. It was under so much confusion and fear

 

that they succeed to con people to TT money to this unknown

 

"International police officer" said to be someone who

 

will monitor any suspicious transactions, dealing and to save

 

guard and protect the victim's money. She assured me

 

that if after the investigation is over about 2 hours later, after

 

they checked my account and found nothing

 

unusual and no black money, that international police officer will

 

contact me and will TT the money back into my

 

bank account.

 

I was really confused and when I kept asking her for any black and

 

white to verify her identity to really make

 

sure she is a real officer from Supreme Court that she told me her

 

name is officer Hong Mui Ying and I can reach

 

her at this Supreme Court telephone number: 63381034. She told me

 

not to hang up and not to tell anybody about

 

what I'm about to do so that it will not mess up their

 

investigation process. She instructs me to go to 108 Cecil

 

Street, BangKok Bank to TT the money.

 

She told me to talk to her when I arrived at BangKok Bank then she

 

would disclose to me the details of the

 

International Police to whom I am to TT my money to. The following

 

is the details she gave me to TT my bank money

 

to when I arrived at Bangkok Bank:

 

Name of person receiving the money: MOORDOO JAESH

 

Account No: 398-073768-2

 

Address: MAESAI

 

I almost TT one thousand dollars to this account she gave me to TT

 

my money to. But while I was at the counter,

 

something on the inside of me tells me, "how could you simply

 

believe these things she talked to you about? How do

 

you know if she really is a Supreme Court officer? You don't even

 

know who this person she told you to TT your money to. What if this is

a cheat and once you TT your money over

 

to this unknown person, you get cheated of your

 

money?"

 

So I withhold what I was about to do at that moment and started to

 

talk to this "Supreme Court officer" again on

 

the phone. I asked her if I can go down to Supreme Court and look

 

for her to verify her identity also with Supreme

 

Court too. She told me she would be very busy as she is handling a

 

lot of such cases and may not have time to see

 

me. She kept telling me to cooperate with her if I'm really

 

innocent and should let them check my money which

 

makes no sense to me. Finally I said to her, "I really want to go

 

down to Supreme Court to verify your identity

 

and I don't mind waiting for you at the Supreme Court. Should you

 

be busy, I'll wait for you at Supreme Court and

 

also want to check with the officer at Supreme Court too if you

 

really are an Officer who work there." She then

 

said, "ok, you may come down to Supreme Court and look for me."

 

After I put down the phone, I went straight to Supreme Court to

 

look for her. To my surprise, when I was there at

 

Supreme Court reception counter to ask for this lady officer, the

 

receptionist told me that there isn't any such

 

lady officer in Supreme Court and I'm not the only person who had

 

came down to look for or called to look for

 

these lady officer. Then the receptionist took out a recent

 

newspaper and showed me that recently a man was

 

cheated of $10,000 also received such call claiming to be officer

 

from Supreme Court.

 

The Supreme Court receptionist then asked me for my name and IC

 

number when I was there at Supreme Court reception

 

counter to check if there are any real court case or charges I

 

have. So I gave him my IC number and Name. After

 

searching through the system, he told me that he cannot find any

 

charges or court case with me. It was then I

 

realized that I have been conned by those 3 people who had

 

impersonated to be Supreme Court staff and CID.

 

Then the receptionist told me that it is better for me to go down

 

to a police station to do a police report on

 

this and I went down to Kreta Ayer NPP to made a police report on

 

the same day 24/10/2007.

 

I hope the police would quickly catch these evil cheaters out

 

there trying to cheat people of their money. The

 

police officer at Kreta Ayer NPP also told me I'm not the only

 

victim of such case. He told me I can go and read

 

http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2007/071018_supcourtphonescam.htm

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Driven

Driven

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many of my colleagues kana the same trick too. We all laughed .

Anyway, the Khoo Boon Hui is the current commisioner of police.

 

But it is good to let our folks know of such cheats.

 

Well, they work on law of large numbers, someone somehow will be conned.

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Canisminor

Canisminor

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These b@st@rds tried the same thing recently with me. They must have dialed a series of numbers sequentially, so most people in my company got the call on their DID lines. I just hung up on them when I heard the damn Mainland China accent.

But some of my colleagues were duped or cowed into giving them some personal info, but think no one actually followed through into meeting them to give them money. [shakehead] How silly, hear the words "Police" and "Government" all their common sense goes out of the window. [hur]

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Chickenfarm

Chickenfarm

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[laugh] Just remember that the Courts will not call out of nowhere and the police will never arrange to meet you outside a police station to settle a fine (no summons or tickets, where got power to fine? [hur] ). And best part is...courts have lots of Malay staff (the tudong type) but no PRCs...much less, speaking in Mandarin [laugh]
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Gadgeter

Gadgeter

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These characters are getting more and more creative with their scams...

I also receive such calls. But the china girl said she is from the media.. I told her, not interested and hang up... laugh.gif

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