Two netizens shared their encounters with scammers online one getting cheated by a fake profile Malaysian girl while another female victim lost 14,000 to a Hong Kong man.
Victim’s encounter 1
Met a girl through a dating app, after 3 nights of normal conversations (all in chinese, she said she is malaysian), asked me to help with her job to pay for items on carousell so i am able to get a commission of 5%, despite saying i do not want the money, the person became very pushy and called me stupid.
Victim’s encounter 2
Got to know this guy from Hinge by the name of Aiden. Conversation started normal then he will start introducing investing in cryptocurrency. He then gave you a link which linked you to this oriental wealth in mandarin and hkd. You are supposed to recharge fund via their recharge customer service team WhatsApp. The so-called customer service officer would give you random bank account to bank in the money. For the first investment it will be successful then this Aiden guy will ask you to invest more thereafter the link will not be accessible and you have to contact customer service which is another hk number. They will tell you that system under maintenance. After the system is up, this aiden guy will tell you that we missed the good timing to buy nodes and that we need to invest even more.
Fast forward to next day when they say you can withdraw the money. Their cs will tell you to pay tax and then your account will be frozen due to suspicious transaction and whatnot. That may seem like a long story but all these will happen within a day or 2. Just wanna share my experience to all of you, when the guy you know from hinge, tinder …. Etc gets pushy and persistent on asking you to invest. Something is very wrong. And if you were to ask you to recharge funds into random local bank account. Something is very wrong too. Scam don’t just happen to elderly. It will happen to young people like us too. Ny case is still pending police investigation and i called the bank to report as fraud. Hopefully able to take some money back.