Somehow my e-mail account and mobile telephone were "cloned". Scammers used them to send e-mails and/or sms messages to the contacts in my e-mail contacts’ and mobile telephone’s listings that I was stranded in London and needed financial assistance urgently. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!. Presently, I am in Singapore and was ever away in London.
If you have received, purportedly from me, an e-mail or sms respective to the above, PLEASE, PLEASE JUST IGNORE IT AS IT"S A SCAM.
My sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thank you, one and all, for your kind understanding.
Best regards
Hi Jonson,
I received the SCAM mail/smses forwarded from Sylvia Ang that you had lost your wallet in London recently and need to borrow from her 800 pounds. Feeling “fishy’ I immediately check your profile in SHC and found your name in SHC and that you play for a band and residing in Spore.
And to go for a course in London which I was v. doubtful abt. I strongly advised Sylvia NOT to be so easily fooled by this scam mail and smses asking her to ignore and not to lent as she does not know Jonson well.?
Next, I alerted the admin, Terence,Yew Kwong and Dolly to be on the alert of this scam mail going around and abusing SHC forum media to achieve his ulterior motive.
Thanks Jonson for writing this post to clarify your unfortunate experience with us so that we are aware of the situation.
Hi Jonson
The scammers picked the wrong person-a newbie-lucky for us! Had they picked Terence Seah, a hat would have been passed round to raise the 800 pounds (not Euros?) to bring him home……………………just joking!
Hi Steven/Sylvia/Jassimine
It’s nice to have friends who empathise with you, come rain or shine.
The unfortunate part, to me, is that my e-mail account have been rendered unusable and all data in it is lost.
I have registered a new e-mail address which is allbizwel@hotmail.com. Through it, you can get in touch with me.
Cheers
Hi Jonson,
Just emailed you. Please check.
Hi Geraldine
Just responded to you email which is self explanatory.
Cheers
Hi all,
Another version of a scam mail which I just received and I would like to share :-
OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
CONGRATULATION,
The ATM CARD payment center, OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC has been mandated to issue out an ATM CARD value of {700,000,00 Thousand USD},to you, which you can use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any
part of the world.
Hi Steven #6,
Plse try to give an opportunity for other SHCians to write on this forum. Keep your comments short and do not keep repeating the comments. It is nice to alert other members, but do not cause unnecessary alarm. There are millions of virus flying around every day. It is a good habit not to agitate other members. This is unethical and unwarranted. Be considerate that this forum is for all members. It is not for one person to speak all the time.
As a guide, I suggest you keep your comment text to 15 lines max. Please give a chance to other members to share their views.
Terence Seah
Hi Terence at # 7,
Noted. Thanks for your explanation.
At 9pm last night, I rec’d an e-mail which reads “Lucy says you should see this video clip”. The mail was from “Lucy” [not the real name], someone whom I knew and my email address was within her contact list. Upon opening the mail, I was asked to enter my email password to retrieve the video. In the background was a vague image of a youtube video. I suspected that it was a scam and so didn’t proceed.
I checked with Lucy today and found out that she didn’t send that mail to me. Same time, she told me that she received the same mail earlier in the day from her friend (so she thought). In her case, she keyed-in her e-mail password and guess it must have led to an unauthorized intrusion into her address book and the use of her contact list to on-mail the same letter. Fortunately, “Lucy” changed her mail password immediately thereafter and averted a loss of her mail account.
Should any of you received a mail that reads “LHC says you should see this video clip” – well, I am telling you in no uncertain terms, YOU SHOULD NOT SEE IT.
HC
This is an excerpt from a Forwarded Mail, contents of which are reproduced below without verifying its authenticity. Certain text have been rephrased.
LATEST CON JOB involving cloning of EFTPOS card (Electronic Funds Transfer Point of Sale ie ATM or Credit Cards)
A surprise gift of a hamper was delivered following a phone call from someone identifying himself to be from a courier company.
-Courier delivery man explained that because the gift contained alcohol he has to charge the recipient $3.50 as proof that he has actually delivered to an adult, and not left it at a door step where it can be stolen or taken by children.
-He also said that the company required the payment to be made by EFTPOS. He is not handling cash so as to ensure that everything is properly accounted for.
-Houseowner offered his credit card and the courier man accordingly swiped the card on his small mobile machine (with a small screen). Following which, the Houseowner entered his pin number. Finally, a receipt was printed out and given to the houseowner.
-Over the ensuring 4 days, $4,000 was withdrawn from the houseowner’s credit account at an ATM machines in the north shore area. It appears that a dummy credit card was cloned and the applicable PIN numbers were also fraudulently taken, using the details keyed-in to the small mobile machine.
HC