Greed Or Idiocy?
Just recently i wrote about people been conned. And here is another story from the Star newspaper. So is it greed or idiocy?
Two fall for million-ringgit ‘lucky draw’
PENANG: A clerk and a contractor were cheated of more than RM50,000 after being told that they had won RM4.8mil in a lucky draw.
The first incident occurred in Air Itam on June 16 when the 31-year-old clerk received a call from a man informing her that she had won RM1mil in a contest. But in order to collect the winnings, she must deposit a processing fee of RM12,000. After paying that amount, she was told that she had won a further RM3.7mil. The clerk was then told to bank in another RM28,000 if she wanted the winnings. She did as instructed and the man later asked for even more money. She told him that she had no more money and the phone calls stopped. She realised that she had been cheated and made a report at the Patani Road police station on June 20.
The contractor, 28, was cheated of RM10,600 in a similar manner on June 22. He only realised he had been cheated after depositing the money. Police are finding it hard to locate the suspects said to be Chinese nationals as they used bank accounts which are “rented” from individuals whom they had befriended. It was learnt that these individuals are paid between RM200 and RM300 a month so that their bank accounts could be used to accept the deposits from the victims. A police spokesman said people kept falling for these scams despite cases such as there being reported by the media. “The local police are working closely with their counterparts in Johor, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor where such scams have also been reported,” said the spokesman.
By BERNARD SEE – The Star Newspaper – 28th June 2007
July 1st, 2007 at 7:50 am
Actually I also received this kind of calls before, over here in China. Again, I do not believe what they said. I was excited for a second and that\’s it. Only dreaming for one second. Ha!!