Fake news and scams thread

[Philipkee]

I don't remember having any thread that talks about scams and fake news specifically?

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Dont have. U mean here or hwz.

They rly all out to ban everyone

[Philipkee]

I noticed in edmw some people would like to give fake news and try to cover it with "my mental image or something". The one on CHT not at the TEL opening ceremony but actually the face was blurred out.

[Philipkee]

Dont have. U mean here or hwz.

They rly all out to ban everyone

I mean in general la.  While we are like having HWZ as the motherland in the sense that we kope posts from HWZ, I am talking about scams in general and fake news in general

[Philipkee]

I recently went to Vietnam and there is a scam.  Now, after I got scammed, I read on Reddit and I realised it's a new scam.

One is the PHV.  You book a phv at the airport.  A car with another plate number would come and he say he is your driver.  You show the booking and say it's a different number and he would show he has your booking.  Now what happens is that when you show your booking, he or an accomplice would take a photo of your phone and send to the fake driver handphone so you see a photo of the booking but it would be like a message so it seems like he got the notification to pick you up.  If you blur blur like me after travelling and you see the booking and you have language barrier, you might think maybe it's legit cos only in Singapore it's so strict that the number must match.  That is scam number one

[Philipkee]

Scam number two, the driver will say he need you to pay for the toll.  Now this is half a scam.

Cos the driver needs YOU to pay the toll.  The only thing is would it be charged to you or you pay in cash.  If it's charged to you it will be in your bill so let's say bill is 50k dong and toll is 20k dong, what the driver should do is pay the 20k dong from his pocket and after you drop off the 50k dong ride, you will get the receipt that you have paid 50k dong plus an additional 20k dong for toll.  But what he does is he asks you for 20k dong for the toll which he pays and then after the trip and you drop off you realise you pay another 20k dong in your bill. It's about $1 only so the driver is banging you wont report him.

The other thing is if you are giving him the 20k dong in cash, you are unlikely to know how the note looks like cos Vietnamese dong looks similar.  So the driver will say stop fumbling this is the 20k dong note and he takes it from your wallet.  He will show you it's 20k dong and he places it on the dashboard.  But if you never see carefully he has taken another note from below the 20k dong note.  He also doesn't know what note he took but it's likely u never noticed so it's free money again from him.

So now I am doubly and triply more careful in Vietnam now

[jim889]

I recently went to Vietnam and there is a scam.  Now, after I got scammed, I read on Reddit and I realised it's a new scam.

One is the PHV.  You book a phv at the airport.  A car with another plate number would come and he say he is your driver.  You show the booking and say it's a different number and he would show he has your booking.  Now what happens is that when you show your booking, he or an accomplice would take a photo of your phone and send to the fake driver handphone so you see a photo of the booking but it would be like a message so it seems like he got the notification to pick you up.  If you blur blur like me after travelling and you see the booking and you have language barrier, you might think maybe it's legit cos only in Singapore it's so strict that the number must match.  That is scam number one

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[jim889]

Scam number two, the driver will say he need you to pay for the toll.  Now this is half a scam.

Cos the driver needs YOU to pay the toll.  The only thing is would it be charged to you or you pay in cash.  If it's charged to you it will be in your bill so let's say bill is 50k dong and toll is 20k dong, what the driver should do is pay the 20k dong from his pocket and after you drop off the 50k dong ride, you will get the receipt that you have paid 50k dong plus an additional 20k dong for toll.  But what he does is he asks you for 20k dong for the toll which he pays and then after the trip and you drop off you realise you pay another 20k dong in your bill. It's about $1 only so the driver is banging you wont report him.

The other thing is if you are giving him the 20k dong in cash, you are unlikely to know how the note looks like cos Vietnamese dong looks similar.  So the driver will say stop fumbling this is the 20k dong note and he takes it from your wallet.  He will show you it's 20k dong and he places it on the dashboard.  But if you never see carefully he has taken another note from below the 20k dong note.  He also doesn't know what note he took but it's likely u never noticed so it's free money again from him.

So now I am doubly and triply more careful in Vietnam now

huai chiu let other ppl touch chiur thing
 

[Philipkee]

huai chiu let other ppl touch chiur thing
 

Tired Ma.

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I mean in general la.  While we are like having HWZ as the motherland in the sense that we kope posts from HWZ, I am talking about scams in general and fake news in general

can update here if got new scams

anyway most of the time we can differentiate scams

but what's worrying is those QRs sometimes people dunno then anyhow open URLs. it can even to some of us, or if we kena spoofed emails, sms etc

[Philipkee]

can update here if got new scams

anyway most of the time we can differentiate scams

but what's worrying is those QRs sometimes people dunno then anyhow open URLs. it can even to some of us, or if we kena spoofed emails, sms etc

Yes.  I remember cases where there are fake QR codes in charity boxes.  They are pasted over genuine ones so the box itself is legit and maybe out of 100 stickers, 99 are legit 1 is fake.  And people can't tell the difference cos after the scam they go back and see only the genuine ones unless they remember exactly which QR sticker they scanned

[jim889]

Tired Ma.

is chiur fault let others touch chuir wallet sum moar.
anyway next taim jagar properly
 

[Philipkee]

is chiur fault let others touch chuir wallet sum moar.
anyway next taim jagar properly
 

My fault rah.  But every scam usually the victim plays a part also mah

[jim889]

My fault rah.  But every scam usually the victim plays a part also mah

ya .. but victim be moar vigilant can liao
 

[bsg]

is chiur fault let others touch chuir wallet sum moar.
anyway next taim jagar properly
 

U must realise

Touch his wallet lose 20k dong.

VS

touch his inner thigh and nearby body parts maybe luigi alot more.

So i think quite wuhua la.

For me i also would do the same if kana same predicament.