Several days ago, i received a called from some annonymous caller, er.......purpotedly hail from Shanghai. She introduced herself as someone-i-forgot-name and said that her company is selling electrical applicances and furniture called Chi Mei Enterprise (i dun really know cause she was speaking in this super deep mandarin and my mandrin level, well, i m quite happy cause it touches the surface only). She said she is doing some survey and ask for my name. well, this sounds awfully familiar rite? well, since i just nodded at every question she popped to me and i decided to play along for a while, and to think that giving my name is not so harmful, i gave it to her. after some time talking and i continue nodding, obviously i dun understand 80% of what she was talking about in some deep mandarin and i m sure i m really fried, she told me she had completed the survey and she then proceed to gave me a lucky draw number and said thtat i was entitled for the lucky draw. She urged me to watch a tv programme on Phoniex or Wah Lai Toi on Astro (i dunno lar, deep mandarin ler, she cant speak english lar, even wan her to pronounce M on her company name also super hard) last nite (i mean 230807), it was a show dunno with Andy Lau and Ruby Lin in it, i think it's a concert or some stage showcase, i dunno lar. In the end, i did not watch and i did not even bother to remember.
After lunch today, as expected, she called me and told me that i have won the lucky draw 3rd price with $110,000 (dunno what price, and dunno if it is in what currency) and she asked me to give her my bank account so that she can bank in the money. of coz, i DID NOT. I just told her i m very bz at the moment and i have never heard of your company and i decided to research more on ur company beforehand. she was kinda annoyed and i also did told her that all i did was nodded to ur questions since i dun understand more than half of what u said. and also told her that i dun believe things come so easy on me this time, as we all have to fight for it to get what we wanted. As u all wonder how i communicated with her, i was using my best surface leveled mandarin with some broken mandarin mixed with english to tell her, i hope she understands (phew, it was like duck talking to a chicken). i also told her that i decided to forfeit the price, she apparently was annoyed, i can catch that from her voice's intonation. well, i said i will call back when i m free. i even got the contact number, hmm....i feel like playing some detective game, but heck, i m too lazy for that lar.
i have heard a lot of scam like this every now and then and i dun think i can trust this one, i just let it slip by lar. dun care so much anymore, even if i did won, i dunno lar, i dun think i m so lucky, and to think that i won something even i dun have to do anything. it's just does not sound rite.
hmm..........i got the number and my tix number, anyone interested to play detective can ask for it from me.
well, back to work. ^^ |
At 3:42 PM,
Some guy came to my apartment once and tried to run the same scam, survey etc. Then after survey he tells me I won free TV etc etc. I was too lazy to go through that nonsense with depositing money, giving my bank account etc that I just said I wasn't interested and closed the door.
Part of me feels bad for them for having to do this sort of nonsense, most of me wants to deathcoil them.
Oh well.
At 10:16 PM,
Same story as you .. this company targeting Kuching people ? o_O
http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2007/08/cheated_by_the.php
At 10:17 PM,
http://www.kennysia.com/
archives/2007/08/
cheated_by_the.php
At 3:25 PM,
hha, i read about kennysia one, er....i think so..dunno ler, they called my office.