Dear all..
i wish to share this scam realised recently by me, it happened to my wife and it pisses me off learning of such trickery. And when i shared it with my buddies i realised one of my friend had a similar phone call with the same story line !!
1. guy / girl will call up (speaking in english or mandarin), identifying themselves as officer from AmBank
2. claim there is someone trying to use "your Ambank" credit card at Poh Kong for RM 3,600
3. if you dent, then he /she will say they suspected that this transaction is fraudulent
4. he / she will ask you to be on hold and pass you to inspector investigating credit card frauds
5. the line will be on hold and a guy will pick up to claim to be a police officer
6. the officer will ask you not to do anything for 3 days and to give him all your ATM and Credit Card numbers. He will say they worry the syndicate is trying to hack into your ATM and Credit card details, so they need to "help" you monitor ALL your banking accounts !!
7. 5-10mins later the police officer will call you back and ask you to go quickly to the nearest ATM and act upon his instruction to change your ATM pin.
up until this stage i arrived at the bank and i answered the phone call...i asked who he was...and he cut of the line..
What was more interesting was this syndicate managed to manipulate AmBank's telephone number, so if you called back, AmBank people will pick up...
anyway..just beware and ask these fcukers to fcuk off.....
take care everyone, these syndicates prey on human beings FEAR and EMOTION.... have to be extra vigilant..
i wish to share this scam realised recently by me, it happened to my wife and it pisses me off learning of such trickery. And when i shared it with my buddies i realised one of my friend had a similar phone call with the same story line !!
1. guy / girl will call up (speaking in english or mandarin), identifying themselves as officer from AmBank
2. claim there is someone trying to use "your Ambank" credit card at Poh Kong for RM 3,600
3. if you dent, then he /she will say they suspected that this transaction is fraudulent
4. he / she will ask you to be on hold and pass you to inspector investigating credit card frauds
5. the line will be on hold and a guy will pick up to claim to be a police officer
6. the officer will ask you not to do anything for 3 days and to give him all your ATM and Credit Card numbers. He will say they worry the syndicate is trying to hack into your ATM and Credit card details, so they need to "help" you monitor ALL your banking accounts !!
7. 5-10mins later the police officer will call you back and ask you to go quickly to the nearest ATM and act upon his instruction to change your ATM pin.
up until this stage i arrived at the bank and i answered the phone call...i asked who he was...and he cut of the line..
What was more interesting was this syndicate managed to manipulate AmBank's telephone number, so if you called back, AmBank people will pick up...
anyway..just beware and ask these fcukers to fcuk off.....
take care everyone, these syndicates prey on human beings FEAR and EMOTION.... have to be extra vigilant..