Scam alert!!

I remember my previous post on the phone scam thingy. It seems that the syndicate behind it has done quite abit of work. As far back in 2008, the story appeared in SGClub forums regarding this bank scam. I'm sure I'm being targeted as well since the phone number that I received is the same as the one reported: +30721160.

Though the scammer had called me a few times recently, I had not answered any. Now, I feel damn tempted to pick up and play along with whoever is on the other side. I'm feeling damn evil at the moment. These people are trying to play punk with me? A SGrean? Come on man, you gotta be kidding, trying to scam me. Really is tao nao pai. You think limpeh so easy to scam ar? I wonder if this kind of syndicate got really use brains one or not. Wanna scam people dun target SG la prrreasse...aiyo we too smart for you can?

STOMPer Sarah said she received a call from a man yesterday (Jan 3), claiming to be from Maybank Credit Card Collection Centre.

"He said his name is Steven Lim Mun Kik and that I owe Maybank $3,000 plus in credit card bills," she said in an email last night.

"I told him that I do not own any credit cards and he suggested that I may have lost my IC and someone made use of it to apply for the Maybank credit card. He alleged that I applied for the card on the 15th September 2007," she said.

The STOMPer said the man wanted to verify her IC number and address.

"I again stressed that I do not own any credit cards. He said that if I don’t believe him, I can call 65352266 to ask for him and that he’s located at Maybank Towers.

"He threatened that he is going to retrieve the cctv recording from Sim Lim Towers where I spent $4,800 after reporting me to the 'fraud department'.

"He also said that I have to be responsible for the payment even though I did not apply for the card," she said.

The STOMPer called the number he gave her and said she was told there was no such employee in the bank.

"The customer officer who attended to my call informed me that there have been many such calls made to the public and their bank’s customers," she said.

The STOMPer checked Maybank’s website and saw this security warning:

Security Alert – Debt Collection Scam
"It has been brought to our attention that there is a party or parties involved in making telephone calls to members of the public, purporting to be representing Maybank, collecting debts on behalf of the Bank. The caller (s) will claim that the customer has outstanding amounts owing to the Bank due to their spending on their credit cards, and request that they pay up the money by cheque. Most of these calls are made via an Overseas Number and on some occasions, the party has identified himself as a “Steven Lim Mun Kin” or “Vincent Tan”.

"We wish to inform members of the public that these calls are not made by representatives of Maybank and these people are not Maybank staff. You may make a report to the Police if you should receive similar calls."

The STOMPer gives this brief description of the man on the phone: "He sounded local Chinese in his late forties and was very agitated, even angry and nervous at one point during the conversation.

"During the whole conversation which lasted about 10 minutes, there were phones ringing constantly in the background.

"He ended the conversation on the note that he will be sending me a warning letter as he claimed I have ignored two letters sent out by the bank last year."
posted by sychai - SGclub

I'm gonna pick up the next time this guy calls and challenge everything he's gonna put in my way. Let's see who's the fraud here. Jiak pah bo sai pang come and ji siao me. Limpeh ho ler si ar!!

the unseen...

I've gotten a couple of phone calls that obviously are not local at all. The number goes like +30721160. I had not answered any of these but a quick check with my service provider tells me that apparently it's coming through from Greece. Greece? Seriously, WTH?

I reckoned it's another one of those phone scams or something. Which also makes me wonder, what's wrong with these people? I kinda had it with phony scams and fake identities.

First came the internet-sms-ex-flame saga. Internet sms, that's her modus operandi. Ex-flame, well, that's what she claimed herself to be. And trying incessantly to instigate doubt from my significant other towards my reputation and character. Overall, I find the whole episode to be rather B-grade, so let's overlook that. Now, there's the phone scams coming in. I mean really, do these people really really think they could ever get something out of me or my gf? Like ever? It's like they don't even bother to choose their victims properly.

Being unable to understand the boliao-ness of the things they do and being able to still continue doing them, I find it derogatory to the human mind. Like if they even have one to start with. Sometimes you just gotta be smarter than that.

terribly terrifying terrorist...

I would kill to keep all the blissful memories I ever had with my loved one in my head. If anybody tries to take them away from me, I would probably bomb their house, kidnap their family members and behead them, send hate mail, assassinate their loved ones from afar, throw exploding fart packets into their car windows, drop slugs into their underwear, spear their eyeballs with chopsticks, douse their privies with kerosene, set them on fire and make them watch, dig out their insides and putting them back......OR......I would jolly just send in the elite yet grumpy old auntie from the market and bug the hell out of them.

Ok, I was just being random...and a tat violent for that matter. I was reminiscing about the good times I had since my dearest significant other came into my life and I was just wondering why there are people out there trying to spoil us. Oh, maybe not 'people', more accurately, 'person'. Strange. Of all people, it had to be us. Why? This question kinda belongs right up there, under "mysterious and the unexplained", nearly on par with the UFO archives.

Though I must say the recent nuisance really gave me a good perspective of 'this kind' of person. A person who cowardly hide behind his/her own shadow yet still could self-justify his/her own pitiful existence by being a whistle-blower with such confidence that he/she actually think he/she is right and when that fails, began to make empty comments that even a 5th grader would have gotten the impression that those are just nothing short of jealousy and snide.

Is this person really smarter than a 5th grader?

I guess not. The pest probably had an intellectual revelation and thought better, since there hasn't been any funny messages from it lately. Yo pest, if you are reading this, a piece of advice: try your resume at Cirque du Soleil. Your clown act was pretty commendable. Probably I would see you on a unicycle or something at their next world tour.

(^_*)

WTH is Halloween?

1. It's supposed to be a 'holy evening'.
2. One of the oldest celebrations of mankind.
   
3. It's a mixture of Pagan and Catholic origins.
4. Trick-or-treat is the ancient equivalent to modern Ah Long's O$P$.
5. Just another day for unscrupulous merchants to hike up prices.
6. A time when you can see totally irrelevant retailers suddenly start selling Halloween stuff.
7. Is the right day for Macdonalds to release Halloween Hello Kitty.
8. Why no Halloween Toto Grand Draw?
9. Pumpkin belongs to the same family as the cucumber.
10. The biggest pumpkin in the world tipped the scales at a whopping 1,446 pounds. It is a fucking big pumpkin.

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Went to Bali Hse & DblO last night. I could have stayed at Bali Hse whole night and enjoyed my beer. Some of us were in costume. They had to go somewhere. DblO lor.

Long queue....$30 cover....weak aircon....massive crowd....fucking bastard son of a bitch who purposely nudged his ugly twisted butt at me juz bcos I stood near his table....crappily closed at 3am and we were just like standing around for an hour in there....

Never celebrated Halloween my whole life...who knows the 1st Halloween night I spent outside was such a disappointment. It's not even classified as a public holiday. Sux big time. N a bloody waste of money.

Warao...thinkpad sia...

This morning I came across an amazing thing.

Every morning during my walk to the MRT I will cover a short path with those park benches at the sides. So I will always see this environment worker (a.k.a road-sweeper) taking a break or something on one of those benches.

He's quite a young chap...one look can tell is Chinese national...but watever...so this morning I saw him again sitting on the bench but he's looking over something. As I walked past him, I was like going 'WAAAAAAaaaaaa..........'. This Chinese chap, wearing a cleaner's uniform, is practically typing away on a IBM Thinkpad. IBM ok?...not Acer, not HP...is bleddy IBM....

Wa lao eh!! Foreign talents all life too good izit?!?! Nao hia!!

I want to buy notebook need to think so long....yet this bugger can sit there use IBM....'foreign talent' cleaner earn more than me??? And somemore is brand new one....cos can see the surface protector thingy on the lid. Worse still, just a short distance away is his cleaner's trolley. On it, tadahh...his brand new laptop bag. IBM logo so big on it somemore....

Win leow lor....now cleaner no need sweep floor leow lor....use Thinkpad play Facebook leow lor....no wonder over the years I hear so many local scholars break bond and zao....bcos here even wanna be cleaner also difficult....simi job also give foreign talent. Locals kio sai only.

Pleeeeease la....lidat hor go ask those foreign talents to make more babies for the nation la...wat for ask us to help? We only know how to comprain money not enuff only mah...watever baby bonus give the bangala lor...1 baby give us $6k...u give bangala $6k, he give u 12 babies, u tan tio right? Lidat the bangala babies will increase, even more future foreign talents to tap on....swee bo? And also dun forget our heartlander Marias. U give Maria $6k, she will happily go find Mr Bangala Boyfriend and make u 12 babies plus take care of his brother's other 12....win-win situation ornot?

Haizzz....pekcek...now every day I'm gonna see that IBM-touting bugger-of-a-cleaner playing Facebook early in the morning. If I'm ever going to be suicidal, I will make sure I kill him first den I kill myself. Pffftttt.

hackers rulx...

wooo....so Photobucket somehow got hijacked by some Turkish dudes. The host really need to get their heads chopped off. DNS-attacks are so passe today yet it has no protection against them. Balls to you. That's why my site now looks like one damn mango.

Well, guess have to wait for it to come back up again to get my layout back. I'm lazy to source out another image host.

A Respite tad too late?

Wah the gahmen is really on a roll. Now I really dunno how many ERP gantries are there altogether. Simply too many. Look at this....ERP invasion. Carkind is in danger.

Imagine you are playing a strategy game. You are the blue player.
Your objective: Conquer the map

Petrol prices went down 4cents a litre. Hmm...clap clap...hooray...walk away. What's the big deal? A 4cents discount warrants a full page article?...wow...very 'significant'...wooo...biggest news of the century...like it's gonna help the nation at all. We should just be glad that Iran did not decide to shoot that missile at us.

Everyday we read news like this that doesn't really matter to us. But I think we should all be contented with what the gahmen is doing. Whatever the gahmen does, it's for the best for all of us. We should not care about the politics, the security, the economy of the country. The gahmen can take care of it. The ministers can take care of it. They are the ones earning the millions anyway. We are all in very, very good cash-laden hands. There's no need to panic.

All we good citizens have to do is just continue to pay our due taxes, maybe even donate our CPF to the needy ministers who need the funds to hold meet-the-minister's rep-instead-of-the-real-person sessions and give inspirational speeches to the people.

That is so COOL. Now I have no qualms of dying and giving up my CPF to the gahmen, knowing that they have better use of it. Wow, I never felt so patriotic in my life. I wish I can serve NS again. Hey, why not let male retirees go back and serve the nation? At least it gives them a purpose in old age. Rather than serving kopi or be garang gunis, why not let them relive the fun of old army days? I'm sure with their life's experiences and wisdom, they can make our military a stronger force. Then we can go snatch more islands from our neighbours. Isn't that a great idea?

This island should be used to house all caught terrorists.
All toilet windows open to a 3-storey drop to rocks and sea.

Opps...tio summon

Sianz to the max...

Met Jo for dinner at Chompchomp. Was puffing away after the meal and as usual, I dropped my cig butt on the ground. Lo and behold, I think anybody can guess by now. The bloody environmental denizens are out on guard duty. One of them, a puny one, swooped down on me like as if I'm a feast and slapped a $200 worth of summons in my face.

Bad luck. Well, I had to laugh it off. How much are these people paid to do such work? Peanuts, a word made famous by the wife of a more famous local politician.

How the police encourage us citizens to be more vigilant towards possible threats or dangers. The word "vigilant" now takes on a totally whole new meaning for me.

Guess what? I'm still gonna litter. Who asks the gahmen to be so scared of bomb threats that they had to remove litterbins away from crowded areas? Yet with all the fanciful precautions, a Pai-Kar-Chu can still escape from a pathetic toilet window. So why do you care about the environment? It happens everyday, by anybody. Catch me again if you can, you environmental freakshows...but I'll be watching for you this time. Vigilantly.

Waste of resources...

SMRT finally decides to increase train frequencies. SBS should do the same too man. It's about time. I had to wait for half an hour for my bus to get to work. Ridiculous. At peak hour somemore. KNN.

Spend so much money build fanciful interchange for wat F? Den the dunno simi IRIS system. Pointless. Why can't just buy more buses and hire more drivers? Hike up fares to give us better service? Ya right. Dun effing waste the people's money on effing service excellence. Can we talk about efficiency for once? For hell's sake...

Seriously, I don't give a damn if the driver greets me or not. Or whether aircon cold enuff or not. Or if the bus looks nice in red and white or not. I just want the bloody bus to come and transport me to my destination. Dat simple. Walao...damn dulan ok...to think that the fares I pay went into teaching the drivers to say Thank You, Take Care and Goodbye. Diu.

Sorry for my outburst, but bcos the late bus nearly caused me to be late for my meeting in the morning. Come on, if S'pore's bus service is dat efficient, I would gladly be the one saying Thank You, Take Care and Goodbye. Diu.

The truth unfolds...

What's exactly the difference between a white lie and an intentional lie?

"Tell a lie enough times, someone might just fall for it"

LOL. According to psychiatrists, there are 2 types of liars.

Type A Liars are the worst of the two types. They are around when you have something to offer and hard to find when you don't. Their tales and exaggerations lean on the extreme and are generally unfeasible. These types are known to fabricate stories that are often times not grounded in reality at all. It's almost as though they lie for the sake of lying. Type A's will claim to possess knowledge on nearly any topic. Regardless if you ask for their opinion on the topic, they will be more than willing to give it to you. If they haven't "been there, done that" themselves, they certainly know someone who has. They have a "friend" in every major industry; a guy who does carpet, another one who sells cars for cheap, a lady who cuts hair for free......you get the idea.

Type B Liars exhibit the same traits as Type A Liars, just not to the same extremes. Type B's however, are capable of maintaining long lasting friendships because their intentions generally are not selfish in nature. In an effort to be well liked by all, they will tell tall tales, but the event described usually did occur, the details are simply stretched. Type B's rarely manufacture an entire story. The lies and tales are mostly an attempt to socialize and feel wanted or important. Type B's will make an abnormally large number of commitments, but tend to follow through on a fair portion of them. Many honest people invest in the friendship offered by Type B's because the intent of the Type B by and large isn't to defraud.

A friend of mine happened to be an exact replica of Type A. Though I had not wanted to confirm his character, recent events had convinced me the manifestation of Type A in this friend of mine is at its peak. Sad. I hope he realise his ways soon, else he will lose more than just friends.

You can dua pao but by the time you realised you are out of ammo, it's too late

I don't know why but I just like saying this: Life is short, don't make it shorter. Why live a lie?

What for?

I want to comprain...

Today is a very confusing day at work. Alot of fill-in-the-blanks. I haven't done it ever since primary school. Like w___ the f___ lor.

Instructions like come from every single direction. Gan pua luan. How to be efficient lidat? Make me gangkor only. NB.

Tomorrow I must bring my quilt and start shooting arrows leow. Sometimes cannot depend on people to cover my karcheng.

Argh...

This week must have been pre-planned to be bad for me....n it's only Wed. BTH.

Meeting after boliao meeting. Those managers seem to like it. cos dats juz about wat they do everyday anyway. Strangely, very little gets accomplished. Especially when dealing with overseas counterparts. All are tai-ji grandmasters, trust me. And pple like me have to eat their "firm but subtle" blows.


Thankfully, the art of dodging arrows wasn't too hard to master, with some help of cos, courtesy of a rather kind colleague who was quite concerned I might turn purple anytime. Then i took it to another level. I shoot the arrows too wahahaha. So i have learnt to leave my own trail of destruction behind. It's like war, without the chaos. Whatever i went thru during NS was basically BS.

We are living in a world of technology where emails fly faster than bullets. Sometimes an innocent-looking flashing alert could very well be a claymore mine right in my face. Coming from the very person who greeted me in the morning. Seated in the cubicle beside me. How i wish i could just fling a grenade over.
All the fake faces in the office...yet the under-table blows are all very real...tot i'd seen it all but when it comes to it, it's always a new lesson to learn. BUT IT'S FARKING DEMORALISING!!! I will not let them climb over my head so easily. Kamikaze is risky but i always come out alive...heh...mess me up den they will noe hell.

One sad thing after another....walao....and i can only talk to this bleddy blog. Why me har? Why so suay? Why can't things stay normal? Why is it so different now?

Oh ya, Cupid was being persistent. I shot him.

One of those nights when the whys do not have any answers. But who understands?

I want to comprain...

OK, this is why im so gonna hate Sat. Cos i need to go take IPPT. I have no idea how being able to do 6 chinups, sprint under 10s, hop 2m, 36 situps and run marathon are going to help me defend the country. Seriously. Scared i cannot hold my gun and shoot ar?

I was a bleddy SAW gunner for goodness sake. I spent a good 6 months with dat bleddy son of a machine gun and now ask me to go back take IPPT only. At least call me back for some action lar. Like an all-expenses paid trip to East Timor or something. At least i get to kill someone there and get away wif it. Or Kuwait lar. Den maybe got chance get autograph from Prince Harry. Pfffffttt....waste my time only. KNN.

As sideline I was a mechanic. Send me go undercover also song. See the eee-rah-kis they use the vehicles all same as Spore one wat. Send me go there i comfem sabo them cham cham. Like put superglue on the seats lar, change the battery to Eveready one lar, sabo the clutch so they forever gear 1 lar, remove the door handles from inside lar.....

See? so many things i can do but den ask me do IPPT only. CCB.

I want to comprain...

pek cek. dunno y chinese engineers all so stuck up. At most they got degree only but the quality of work like fark. bth. only know how to screw up my work. Dun even know how to speak engrish properly still want to be cocky....really want to strangle them, peel their skin den roast them like dog meat.

heng my direct boss is angmo. he understand my pain. if boss is made-in-china, i cfm jump down from office liao. but wun die. it's like 2nd floor only. knn.

Blood pressure maximised. seriously.

But i have nothing against the general cheenas. Actually i love them. They know how to make use of space lor. How they can squeeze so many people in one city alone, i have no idea. They should come here and teach the peepur taking the MRT in the morning.

Neh mind, later i shall pour out my anger in our podcast. Ivern getting off work early today so we got time to discuss topic. probably about work. No...must be about work. Den i can comprain.
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