Fake news and scams thread

[jim889]

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.

hard to say.. no taim to tink in that kind of situation
 

[Suntan]

Moi hate those jhk stealing meat of chicken & duck. Used to fill 2 big styrofoam with bones. Nowadays moi ask them not to chop.
They still took the feet & neck. 

[encourageSome1]

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

I heard of this before .. they say these scammers alws snatch whole wallet from u n say he took that note correct alr but actually they took extra $

Extra surcharge need $ out of receipt I also kenna before in sg
By lkk uncle but 3 ish I give it to him la cos I m not sure true or not

[encourageSome1]

Tired Ma.

How can u let them 🫣😭

[encourageSome1]

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

That s why when I m out w elderly
I told them u don't know don anyhow scan
U use yr cash better than accidentally scan a scammer sticker whole bank savings gone mia ed

[Philipkee]

I also had the scam calls from people who claim to be my friends.  The thing is even though I know these are scams, they really sound so convincing that I felt I knew them from somewhere

[Banned User]

ya .. but victim be moar vigilant can liao
 

Yeah. Once let guard down is gg

[Philipkee]

I ever heard of this in Eastern Europe.

The scammers will work in a team. One person will throw a look alike baby doll at you.  Instinctively, you will catch it.  But now your hands are not guarding your wallet and the next accomplice takes it

On internet it's all just dolls but anecdotally some people say they actually throw live babies at you so even if you know it's a scam, either you let the baby crash and die in front of you or lose your wallet

[bsg]

hard to say.. no taim to tink in that kind of situation
 

He already reacted in the right way ley.

[Philipkee]

I was reading some people on edmw suggested that banks should allow reverse transfers of paynow if transferrer lodges a complaint.  I think this will open up a can of worms and lead to more issues

What do you guys think?

[encourageSome1]

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

Recently laolang who hv hardly 20 friends recvd a msian Chinese call saying he changed number

So lkk say ok
Then he said "u know who I am ",
Lkk says "who"
He then proceeded to say "u guess"
Lkk just hang up don't even bye

Cos the only person who do such thg r msian fren
Those who r in touch hv a way to tell me n scold me
Those who aren't maybe don't hv much reason to find me
Those who don't care also no biz to find me
So lkk thk 99.99999% scam
Scammer don't dare to call back since past 7 days alr

[encourageSome1]

I was reading some people on edmw suggested that banks should allow reverse transfers of paynow if transferrer lodges a complaint.  I think this will open up a can of worms and lead to more issues

What do you guys think?

If scammed I feel there is certain degree bank hv to mk sure preventive security measures don't encourage or mk it easy for scammers n tricksters

But if those ownself type wrongly or ownself see payeee wrong and click transfer

My question is who bear costs for such service when ppl ownself careless


Can u imagine u hand $ to someone man on street and later expect mata help u retrieve cos u pass to a wrong person by own mistake ?

Some degree of personal responsibility has to be on individual bah

[No guessing game]

Recently laolang who hv hardly 20 friends recvd a msian Chinese call saying he changed number

So lkk say ok
Then he said "u know who I am ",
Lkk says "who"
He then proceeded to say "u guess"
Lkk just hang up don't even bye

Cos the only person who do such thg r msian fren
Those who r in touch hv a way to tell me n scold me
Those who aren't maybe don't hv much reason to find me
Those who don't care also no biz to find me
So lkk thk 99.99999% scam
Scammer don't dare to call back since past 7 days alr

He got your name and number from paynow. Change your name in paynow to other things rather than name

[Arctic]

Only kena unauthorised transactions on credit card before. Small amt but I reported it. Bank reversed the transactions and issued new card iirc

[No guessing game]