We often heard or came accross of scams involving telco users receiving calls informing them winning a contest and asked them to go to the nearest Maybank ATM or give details on Maybank2U account.
Never in my wildest imagination that I am in the statistics ... tapi di kalangan yang tak tertipu!
Well guess what ... I just received that call minutes ago. And kebetulan dalam banyak-banyak hari ... this is also a day I am in my "CSI mode" investigating a developer tipu cop our department and luckily ... cuma I dengan beberapa orang saja yang tau bila kita tukar cop Bahagian. Opps melencong pulak ...
Firstly, I heran ... the caller ID displayed "Withheld" and dia bagi salam. Katanya he is Haji somebody lah from Menara Celcom. Then I asked "ya, ni berkenaan apa nie?" So he explained that his company just received information from Menara Celcom that my simcard just won third prize in Ulang Tahun Celcom bernilai RM 5000.00.
Wow ... kachinggg ... kachinggg ....
Then mcm orang bodo, perhaps terkejut atau seronok GILA dapat panggilan menang peraduan (yelaa ... i tak pernah menang contest) I asked him again ... "I menang apa?"
Dia pun explain lah sekali lagi mcm panjang lebar macam public speaking PTK3 ... tapi I dah mula rasa tak sedap hati. Sebab utama ialah ... gaya bahasa (his slang )... cara dia cakap langsung tell me he is not Malaysian (even if a Chinese say "potong" I dah tau sama ada China mali atau Ipoh Mali) ... it's a cross antara Indonesian, Bangla, Indian and Malay. His main telo like Indonesian but his roll his tongue like Indian on certain pronunciation ... And certain words if we listened closely sounded a bit like Sabahan .... Pilak kah?
And I tested him "OK since u dari Celcom ... cuba bagi tahu saya nombor ni didaftarkan atas nama siapa?"
Boleh ... dia macam angin sikit, " Cik, saya ni cuma dapat nombor telefon cik dari Menara Celcom, mereka suruh kami call cik untuk bagi tau itu duit tinggal tunggu nak ambil saja".
Hmm ..."Boleh saya tahu bagaimana saya boleh verify maklumat ini? I nak pengesahan dulu yang saya dapat no. 3 peraduan nie"
"Cik, cik jangan susah hati. Ini betul punya. Tinggal Cik nak ambik duit sahaja. Cik ada tak akaun Maybank?"
"Takde"
"Cik pakai akaun apa"
"BSN" (huhuhu ... I pernah dicemuh oleh rakan2 sePTD kerana masih pakai akaun sekolah menengah)
"Cik ada tak kawan-kawan yang pakai akaun Maybank. Apa mereka perlu buat hanya pergi ke ATM Maybank saja dan nanti duit akan dimasukkan di situ"
Hmmm .... then I remembered reading a forwarded email from a friend about receiving a scam call via Internet or sattelite and the caller will ask the ATM owner to go to the nearest ATM and they will copy the information via your phone or sattelite or something ... can't remember.
I told him, "Can you give me your name and phone number. Saya akan hubungi you balik sebaik sahaja I verify nie dengan CELCOM. Kalau boleh, you bagi I surat pengesahan I menang peraduan nie"
Boleh ... terus angin member.
"Macam ni lah Cik. Saya cuma disuruh untuk bagi duit kat Cik saja. Tak payah bagi nombor akaun atau PIN number. You cuma pergi ke mesin ATM saja. Duit RM 5000.00 dah standby masuk akaun cik".
"No, saya nak juga verify dengan Celcom. U call me back in 20 minutes. I nak call Celcom dulu. Apa nama u tadi?"
Hmm ... he gave me his name as Haji Rosdi dari Call Centre Celcom at Level 2 Jalan Raja Muda. I think dia nie pun still want to try his luck.
Shortly after he hung up, I called CELCOM HQ to verify the information and was informed that the scam was QUIET for a while and now apparently it has resurface. Huhuhu ... nasiblah mata I rabun so tak nampak sangat simbol RM or $$$.
Later I told Mr Energy Saving about the incident and you know what his advice to me?
"Cik Jaime, baik Cik Jaime claim hadiah Magnum 4D cik Jaime yang RM 5.00 tu"
Hehehe ... oppsss ...
Never in my wildest imagination that I am in the statistics ... tapi di kalangan yang tak tertipu!
Well guess what ... I just received that call minutes ago. And kebetulan dalam banyak-banyak hari ... this is also a day I am in my "CSI mode" investigating a developer tipu cop our department and luckily ... cuma I dengan beberapa orang saja yang tau bila kita tukar cop Bahagian. Opps melencong pulak ...
Firstly, I heran ... the caller ID displayed "Withheld" and dia bagi salam. Katanya he is Haji somebody lah from Menara Celcom. Then I asked "ya, ni berkenaan apa nie?" So he explained that his company just received information from Menara Celcom that my simcard just won third prize in Ulang Tahun Celcom bernilai RM 5000.00.
Wow ... kachinggg ... kachinggg ....
Then mcm orang bodo, perhaps terkejut atau seronok GILA dapat panggilan menang peraduan (yelaa ... i tak pernah menang contest) I asked him again ... "I menang apa?"
Dia pun explain lah sekali lagi mcm panjang lebar macam public speaking PTK3 ... tapi I dah mula rasa tak sedap hati. Sebab utama ialah ... gaya bahasa (his slang )... cara dia cakap langsung tell me he is not Malaysian (even if a Chinese say "potong" I dah tau sama ada China mali atau Ipoh Mali) ... it's a cross antara Indonesian, Bangla, Indian and Malay. His main telo like Indonesian but his roll his tongue like Indian on certain pronunciation ... And certain words if we listened closely sounded a bit like Sabahan .... Pilak kah?
And I tested him "OK since u dari Celcom ... cuba bagi tahu saya nombor ni didaftarkan atas nama siapa?"
Boleh ... dia macam angin sikit, " Cik, saya ni cuma dapat nombor telefon cik dari Menara Celcom, mereka suruh kami call cik untuk bagi tau itu duit tinggal tunggu nak ambil saja".
Hmm ..."Boleh saya tahu bagaimana saya boleh verify maklumat ini? I nak pengesahan dulu yang saya dapat no. 3 peraduan nie"
"Cik, cik jangan susah hati. Ini betul punya. Tinggal Cik nak ambik duit sahaja. Cik ada tak akaun Maybank?"
"Takde"
"Cik pakai akaun apa"
"BSN" (huhuhu ... I pernah dicemuh oleh rakan2 sePTD kerana masih pakai akaun sekolah menengah)
"Cik ada tak kawan-kawan yang pakai akaun Maybank. Apa mereka perlu buat hanya pergi ke ATM Maybank saja dan nanti duit akan dimasukkan di situ"
Hmmm .... then I remembered reading a forwarded email from a friend about receiving a scam call via Internet or sattelite and the caller will ask the ATM owner to go to the nearest ATM and they will copy the information via your phone or sattelite or something ... can't remember.
I told him, "Can you give me your name and phone number. Saya akan hubungi you balik sebaik sahaja I verify nie dengan CELCOM. Kalau boleh, you bagi I surat pengesahan I menang peraduan nie"
Boleh ... terus angin member.
"Macam ni lah Cik. Saya cuma disuruh untuk bagi duit kat Cik saja. Tak payah bagi nombor akaun atau PIN number. You cuma pergi ke mesin ATM saja. Duit RM 5000.00 dah standby masuk akaun cik".
"No, saya nak juga verify dengan Celcom. U call me back in 20 minutes. I nak call Celcom dulu. Apa nama u tadi?"
Hmm ... he gave me his name as Haji Rosdi dari Call Centre Celcom at Level 2 Jalan Raja Muda. I think dia nie pun still want to try his luck.
Shortly after he hung up, I called CELCOM HQ to verify the information and was informed that the scam was QUIET for a while and now apparently it has resurface. Huhuhu ... nasiblah mata I rabun so tak nampak sangat simbol RM or $$$.
Later I told Mr Energy Saving about the incident and you know what his advice to me?
"Cik Jaime, baik Cik Jaime claim hadiah Magnum 4D cik Jaime yang RM 5.00 tu"
Hehehe ... oppsss ...
