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Scammers On My Phone

 Be very careful when you get calls informing you that your IC has been used to open a company or register a phone line or even sent to an address in a box.  These calls are usually from scammers because police or LHDN ppl will ask you to go to the office or station.  They will not discuss such things on the phone.

A lot of these calls are done on public holidays or weekends or times outside working hours.  They will sound very reasonable and tell you that you need to go to a police station or some where.  My personal experience is that I have been required to go to a police station in Seremban or Ipoh.  Yes, I am very unfortunate to have received two of these calls.  The first one was during lockdown in 2020 and it was from Pos Malaysia (so they said).  They claimed I sent my bank card and IC to an address in Ipoh via Poslaju.  They asked me if I knew it was a crime to send such items via post.  I said it is a moot point because I would never do such a thing.  How would I get money out of my bank if I'm busy sending my bank cards to God-knows-who.  As for my IC... well, I told them only idiots do that.  However they said I am still in trouble because the package was in my name.  So they insisted I go over to Ipoh.  During lockdown time, are they nuts?  So I said okay I'll talk to the local police about it.  They said I can't do that because the crime happened in Ipoh so I had to go to Ipoh.  And they could help me by passing my call to their police contact.  Wow, they had a direct line with a police officer.  It seems crimes happen a lot in Poslaju. (I'm being sarcastic.)  So I said it's okay, I have buddies in the local police station and I would talk to them about taking the next flight to Ipoh.  Then they ended the call by saying I seemed to be unaware of how much trouble I was in.  Well, I would be in really serious trouble if I didn't start thinking of where to get some hand sanitiser.  I was running out.  Needless to say, I never bothered to go to any police station.  So far no SWAT Team has rushed over to my house to take me into custody.

The second call was two weeks ago.  On a weekend.  Just when I was about to have a nice piece of cake with hot tea.  This time I was informed that I had been implicated in some criminal money laundering thing because a phone number I registered in Seremban had been used.  I said I had no phone line in Seremban.  Plus it would have been impossible for me to register a phone line in August as it was MCO time (or whatever version of MCO, I have lost track).  But apparently my IC had been used to register this company, so now I was in trouble.  And of course, I HAD to go to Seremban police station that day itself.  This time I told them okay I'll go after I arrange for swabs and after I go to the local police station because I can't just fly over to Seremban without some sort of official documentation to show my boss.  (I was just talking while waiting for them to offer to pass my call to some police officer on direct line with them.)  Then they got around to the 'I can transfer the call to bla bla bla who will be able to help you... bla bla bla...'  So finally I told them that I don't know about such things and I usually let my husband handle all my criminal cases, as he was a police inspector.  They ended the call with a 'You are in serious trouble... you don't seem to realise it.'  I did realise my tea was getting cold.  And when I told my husband, he only said hrm.


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