HK Scam - part 1

I'm sure most of you have heard of the Nigerian scams, where they email you about someone rich dying, and they have a huge amount of money in the bank which they cannot take out, until you help put in a certain sum. In which, they will then pay you up to 1 million bucks.

Recently i was involved in a Hongkong scam.

This is the first time i've ever said it out to anyone, so most of you will be surprised. Before you read on, know that my only tangible loss was that of a few minutes of international airtime, but my intangible loss was how i was actually excited at thinking i would be able to get that sum of money, only to find out its a scam.

After all, in this world, if its too good to be true, it probably is. I was left feeling pretty dejected for the rest of the day after the excitement faded when i realised it was a scam.

Okay, the details.

Somewhere around the 30th of July, i received a phone call from a private number. When i picked it up, this lady Chen Lijun said that she's calling from a HongKong company, and that they're doing some promotional activities and needed me to partake in a survey.

I was thinking.. huh? Hongkong company? How on earth did you get my number, and why me? But since its international airtime, i had to speak quick. Basically she asked me if i supported the IR, and the casinos. Even though i said i didn't, she proceeded to give me a number, and then told me to look out for their event, which will be shown in TV. Stef Sun will be participating in it too.

I thought nothing of it, and checked my phone to realise that they've been trying to call for quite a number of times prior to today. Hmm.

A week later, she called again to tell me to watch the show, or to attend it. I think it would be near impossible for me to fly to HongKong to attend it, and i did have something on that night, so i wouldn't be able to look at the show, even if they were showing it on SCV anyways.

And so once again i thought nothing of it until a week later, when i received another call from her..

To be continued..