Yeap, I am being conned, live, as I am writing this blog. It all happened last week, when I got an unanimous call from a lady with this thick southern China mandarin accent. She claims that she is from a company based in HK named Hong Ji. She gave me this coupon number AG9826 that I can use to gain entry into some sort of event in KLCC. Of course, I knew that was some kind of hoax, and didn’t even bother to go.
This week they began their full fledged attack. Knowing fully well that their victims will never turn up, they called me up again yesterday. Their story was that my number turned up as number 3 in their lucky draw, and I won HKD330,000! You will have to be crazy to fall for a trap like that. I knew it was a hoax, but I did not hang up. I continued to dig. I came to know their office number is 03-27727300, and the lady who called me up, her name is Mei Ling with the number 016-4731132. Go ahead, call them up. Mei Ling said that the money now sits in Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong, and that I have two options.One is to go personally to Hong Kong to the bank to claim this money. Of course, their victim will most probably not go there to do that. Which leaves them with only the option to do a telegraphic transfer. I gave them my phoney name, phoney IC number and phoney Maybank account number. Let them work their magic.
Today Mei Ling just called. I just hanged up the phone. They said that Hang Seng Bank in HK is ready to transfer the money to me. They asked me to call the bank in Hong Kong at the number 00852-30658212 to speak to the officer there. There is a temporary account that my money now resides in, and they mentioned the account number is 0012-484-1001. The password to the account is 9826, same as the number of the coupon earlier. Upon calling the number, they asked me to press 2 for Cantonese, then 1, followed by 9. After verifying my identity, I will be able to get my money by 12 noon today!
What a fake!
Guys, if you are reading this, you may want to call them up. I’m too busy (but free enough to update this blog! 😛 hehehehe) Anyway my fake identity number is:
Name: Liang Han Wai
IC : 780916-09-7979
Maybank Account Number : 1080-4547-3884
Go ahead, knock yourselves out!
Hehe.. way to scam the scammer!
Errr…but if you did get the HKD330,000, ingat kawan2 okay..
I tried already.. the money now is in Swiss Bank..
Acc. No. :1213412532
Name: Soh H**
Haha…i also received call from Hong Ji said that my number turned up as number 3 in their lucky draw and I won HKD330,000!
same story…..
password also same…9826..
only account number different…003-484-5898
walau eh…..
search from website still can find their company leh!!!!
http://www.hj3c.com/index.asp
客服邮箱：web@hj3c.com 客服电话：香港總公司 00852-65527157
馬來西亞公司032-7727300
公司地址：Suite 18-03,18th floor,Menara Tan & Tan 207 Jalan Tun Razak 50400 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia 邮政编码：50400 工作时间：08:00 – 17:00
© 2009 鴻基科技股份有限公司
i received call like this also… but they hang up half way… else i will do like what u did…haha
i also get tis call from hong ji. is the girl call me her name is lim mei qi. her say me can won HKD330,000 n ask me to give her my ic no, bank account.. hahahahaha, who’s wil believe it n get won tos HKD330,000??? pls let me knw n email to me ok??
You’d be surprised at just how many people can be so ignorant about these scams. You may laugh at how silly their tactics may sound like. But look at the newspaper and you will see Michael Chong having a hard time getting complaints from these people who really fall for their scam. I am just highlighting a potential trap for everyone to see and be wary of. And if they still fall for that cheap tactics, they have only themselves to blame.
I have the same call as you guys received….
Ya…i’m the latest lukcy man being called by them…oso the same 3rd prize…hahaha…
nothing creativity….
I received a call from them as well …
I just wonder how do they con by just getting name ic and account number?
I experience the same story. But I purposely dig into it further. The Hang Seng banker is asking for Overseas Trust Insurance Cover note. So, I asked the fake lady (named Chen Le Yi 陈乐怡) and she pretend don’t know what is it. She gave me the number for first prize winner named Liu Wei Jie （刘伟杰）phone 0129716923. His slang is local mandarin. He said he won the first prize and he appointed the company to arrange for the trust insurance for him. He said he got the money within the same day! I purposely follow the instruction and ask Ms Chen how to purchase the insurance? She want me to be done within the same day but I said I was in the rural area. So I asked my friend to help. She gave my friend a RHB bank account under the name of Heo Soon Cheng Acc# 112022007941 to bank in RM5940 as insurance premium. We didn’t do that but I fax a fake bank in slip for her. Her fax no is 03-30696852. I think she’ll find out that I’m cheating her. The story to be continued….
I receive a call from tham also. They work for 奇华电器公有限司. They tell me I win the 3th price also. Total amount I win is HKD420,000. That lady who call me is 谢冰玉phone 0122994571. She gave me the number for 3th prize winner (he win a same price like me) named Liu Wei Jie （刘伟杰）phone 0129716923.
After that she ask me to call Hang Seng banker too. 张宝华phone 0085230501176.
Finally she ask me to bank in RM 5+++ also. And I told him I don’t have so many money. She ask me to borrow from my friend, but I tell him I never borrow money from my friend and I don’t have friend….
About this 2 handphone number, I already check by using the internet. This 2 number are unregister handphone number. So, i can 100% comfirm they are trickster.
haha…me too….but that girl sounds sweet..
Same thing happen to me. the same story, same prize, same bank, same girl…
same phone number 008 5230 501176, they said this number is from Hang Seng HK Bank, i did call to the bank (get their customer service number from their official website) and find out, this number 008-5230-501176, is NOT Hang Seng HK Bank phone number.
I wish to thank you the owner of the blog for posting this con incident, so that i can search and confirm they are 100% con, and gather all the story put together.
Hope the con team will be get busted 1 day, very soon!
Today i received a call from that ladies, she claim that someone stole my identify and get a new credit card from Eon Bank. She told me to call to Pusat Palsu Bank Negara to report the issue and ask them to fax the clarification form to cancel my existing card. The Pusat Palsu Bank Negara phone number is the same as 03-27727300.
She claimed her name Sharon and asked me to call her back at 03-20267949. Thanks to Jacky for the sharing in this blog and they dont con to the others, else i might be one of the victim in this con incident. really appreciate for that !!
oh, same thing happen to me also.
I did a survey few weeks b4. Then they invited me to attend the event held in KLCC last Wednesday (if im not mistaken) and gave me the lucky draw no. Of course, I won’t bother all this phone call.
Yesterday, I received a call from the same girl (her name 杨佩玲， tel no: 03-27727368 & hp no: 014-7217969), she spoke with china or Taiwanese accent and claimed that she was called on behalf of her company name 奇美电子有限公司, She told me that I have won 3rd prize which is HKD 500k, and why that day they announced my name on the stage but I didn’t collect my prize. Then she told me that since I didn’t collect the cash prize on the spot, they have send back the money to hang seng bank in Hong Kong. She gave me 2 option, either I personally collect in Hang Seng bank Hong kong or provide her my name, IC no & bank a/c and they will transfer the money to my local bank a/c.
I asked her whether do I need to pay any fee or charges, she told me I won’t need to pay a single cent. She know I’m doubting her statement, so she provided me her company registration no. I checked through the Hong kong government company registration website, the company she mentioned is really registered in Hong Kong.
注册编号： 1418396
公司名称-中文： 奇美電子科技(香港)有限公司
公司名称-英文： JIMMY ELECTRONICS (HK) LIMITED
After that I told her I choose to go Hong Kong to claim my prize, I asked her to provide me the Hang Seng branch & staff in charge name． （Info she provided is Hang Seng bank Nathan Road, Kowloon main branch, person in charge is 陈永成）. I called the bank and checked for the staff name that she provided, answer is “No such Person”.
I called her again and questioned her regarding the manager name 陈永成 is not in Hang Seng bank staff list, she seems like a bit shocked that I called the Hang Seng Bank and keep giving me a lot of reason such as bcoz of the staff list is very confidential so the bank won’t simply reveal their staff info. I asked for her company address as well and she sms the address (suite 1605, 16th floor menara tan & tan, 207, jalan tun razak 50400 kl).
P.s. Luckily I didn’t give her my real name. ^-^