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Asia1
30-07-2012, 10:01 PM
Hi all, recently registered in Badoo and talked to a girl, she claim she was born and raised from Katong in Singapore, and now living in Australia but doing Antiques business in Malaysia, and asks me help for money wire transfer from Malaysia to SG my account, and seems dont know that the the bank will need to charge some amounts from the wire transfered money.

BTW we never meet face to face before, and just chat in yahoo for several days, and she says she trust me and want to wire transfer $$ from Malaysia to my acct in SG, and then of course I will help to transfer to her again, wired??:rolleyes:

Any one encountered this before? is it a new type of scam ? dont know any risks here if I just do the transfer. of course she want my bank account details so that she can do wire transfer of the $$ from Malaysia to my account here

matlab
30-07-2012, 10:11 PM
What's her reason for doing so?

There could be a possibility that she's using your account for temporary "storage". You could be charge for corruption if there's anything wrong and you might become the next news in Sg :rolleyes:

Happy555
30-07-2012, 10:12 PM
Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

wally888
30-07-2012, 10:13 PM
Bro, dunn do it coz its money laundering. Someone got caught before so its illegal!

Presidental
30-07-2012, 10:15 PM
Hi all, recently registered in Badoo and talked to a girl, she claim she was born and raised from Katong in Singapore, and now living in Australia but doing Antiques business in Malaysia, and asks me help for money wire transfer from Malaysia to SG my account, and seems dont know that the the bank will need to charge some amounts from the wire transfered money.

BTW we never meet face to face before, and just chat in yahoo for several days, and she says she trust me and want to wire transfer $$ from Malaysia to my acct in SG, and then of course I will help to transfer to her again, wired??:rolleyes:

Any one encountered this before? is it a new type of scam ? dont know any risks here if I just do the transfer. of course she want my bank account details so that she can do wire transfer of the $$ from Malaysia to my account hereEasy, give her someone else account which can't be traced to you. Some close guy friend or whoever. Of course he must be agreeable to it.

High chance she will say money stuck somewhere, need legal fees to settle, ask you to wired to some legal firm in HK, taiwan, msia etc.. All the bull shit.

Watched National Geographic before on a documentary on this, few major syndicate in China, HK, Taiwan etc doing this. Every stage also got commission earned by the caller...

Lottery winner also from them, Kidnap scam also, and now this..
Hahaha

Never buy TOTO , will kenna TOTO or not? Go think...

Asia1
30-07-2012, 10:26 PM
Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

Thanks bro, I also think it is a scam

Bro, dunn do it coz its money laundering. Someone got caught before so its illegal!

really? thanks and of course will not do it :D

Asia1
30-07-2012, 10:32 PM
Easy, give her someone else account which can't be traced to you. Some close guy friend or whoever. Of course he must be agreeable to it.

Cannot la, bro, i dont want to do also dont want to sabo my friend :D

High chance she will say money stuck somewhere, need legal fees to settle, ask you to wired to some legal firm in HK, taiwan, msia etc.. All the bull shit.

yes, maybe hehe, but i want to cut it.

Seems they want to know my account number and name, dont know if it is realted to the recent DBS/POSB case that someone in Malaysia take $$ from Singapore acct ?:rolleyes:

Asia1
30-07-2012, 10:32 PM
here is her profile in Badoo http://eu1.badoo.com/0287558764/?r=37.4&p=2

alan0338
30-07-2012, 10:41 PM
did u ask how much she going to send u???? :confused: :D

power88
30-07-2012, 10:54 PM
Bro Asia1...
better take care and dun fall into this trap...
Very obvious is defintely a scam...
a very suspious point is you all never meet before....who know that photo of the gal might aso be false...

BoinKING
31-07-2012, 12:00 AM
ask yourself la.. would you trust a person you met online to tt money to them..
once go cannot go back..

who will be so naive and stupid.
anything that involves money should be handled woth extreme skepticism..

IAmAwesome
31-07-2012, 01:12 AM
Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

Agreed :cool:

kerjasama
31-07-2012, 10:42 AM
Two possibilities:

1) If genuine, as brothers have pointed out, use for "temporary" storage. This could be a corruption case, or money laudering. Both are jialat and land in East side of Sillypore.

2) A scam. There are many online scams in many ways. They even use big names like Microsoft, Google, National bodies. But look at the email address - either hotmail, gmail or those ending with Ur/Tk (some other countries other than the original countries.

Just a note - no matter how genuine the offer sounds, no matter real it seems, any money transfer does not need you to pay a fee or a charge upfront. Banks can always deduct any legitimate fees from the amount transferred. So don't be fooled by remitting money first.

Another thing - a new scam offers to pay you cash first for you to deposit in your account (say $10,000) and then ask you to withdraw and pay him $2,000 as commission. He will assure you that it is not a scam, as he pays you first. Don't do it. The money is fake - and if you are caught, you carry the burden. If it clears (at some small branches) you think you are safe? - No, when the money goes to the bank clearing houses, it will be detected and trace back to your account.

Safer to buy lottery ticket! You lose dollars, but win million. (In the scam you lose thousands, and win stress, anxiety and possibly jail).

ddog
31-07-2012, 11:13 AM
Sounds like he/she scammed someone else asking him to deposit the money, so deposit to which bank? Yours. so you take the bait while he goes away scott free as you're the direct party between the victim and whatedver transacted between her and the victim fingers to be pointed at you.
Either way who the heck in this world would trust a total stranger besides, why give yourself extra worry, what's in it for you? no point

acidicavex
31-07-2012, 11:52 AM
I think confirm money laundering. It a method use to delay tracking by whomever is after them.

By the authority or by the mob it delay tracking them down but it doesn't delay tracking whomever got scam into helping.

A friend working as a admin in a law firm said her boss handling one such case of internet banking laundering. Which involve a few account locally and oversea. The innocent one Thot easy money but end up with visit from police also one more IRAS suspecting him of tax evasion. Long long case the poor fella can almost be declare bankrupt Liao with his lawyer fee piling up.

teli69
31-07-2012, 01:25 PM
Bro another way is u go report to police n let them settle this...who knows u might be given given a award for helping the police busting a syndicate!

littlepok
31-07-2012, 01:55 PM
not money laundering. u will see for eg 5k into account. then she say emergency, send 4.8k, the 200 u keep as thanks. u send 4.8k to her, then the TT bounce, bank deduct the amt from your bank. u out of pocket 4.8k.

even if u empty ur account, the bank will still hound u for the owed amount. never take unknown $$$ into your bank, anything goes wrong is your own responsibility

Happy555
31-07-2012, 08:57 PM
Never knew theres so many different types of such scams. But i feel that no monies will ever be deposited into your account...

nuclearkid
31-07-2012, 09:52 PM
I always live by the maxim 'There is no free lunch in the world'. If it appears to be too good, it probably is.:D

Such scams have come from all parts of the world...some Nigerian chap tried to scam me and I had a colleague who was close to getting scammed from a guy in Scotland. The Nigerian one, I played along and gave a bogus account. He said he needed me to transfer some money for him to pay the cost of wiring the money he wants to pass to me. So I asked him, why can't he deduct from the amount he wants to give me. He said it needs to be the original sum and not the balance after deduction. I asked where he is from, he told me Lagos. I said bingo, just nice, am going there next week. Let's meet up and you can pass me the dough (Of course I wasn't going there, nobody goes to Lagos for fun). After my offer to meet in person to collect the money, no sound no picture from him. Play along lor, if you have some time to kill. :D

Think about it, why would anyone give you money. Taking yourself as an example, if you have money, why would you benefit a stranger. Why not give your friends a treat or indulge in something you have been eyeing. Some stranger coming up to you wanting to add to your bank balance doesn't smell right...

goodu
31-07-2012, 10:05 PM
she claim she was born and raised from Katong in Singapore

this is a tell tale a scam.

cos which singaporean will say he or she is raised from orchard road, telok blangah, woodlands etc?

123qw
31-07-2012, 10:11 PM
scam or money laundering. don't believe them

Asia1
31-07-2012, 10:25 PM
did u ask how much she going to send u???

I didn't ask her and stopped chatting with her, but she still asking for help, you can talk to her and ask more if interested :D

Bro Asia1...
better take care and dun fall into this trap...
Very obvious is defintely a scam...
a very suspious point is you all never meet before....who know that photo of the gal might aso be false...

agree and thanks, i asked her to come to SG and meet me, after that I can do anything to help her hhehe :D but she says I made her coming to SG difficulty cos she want me to settle things first ...


anything that involves money should be handled woth extreme skepticism..

yes fully agree, I told her money related matter should be after meeting up and get familiar and comfortable with each other and then can talk :D

Asia1
31-07-2012, 10:29 PM
Two possibilities:

1) If genuine, as brothers have pointed out, use for "temporary" storage. This could be a corruption case, or money laudering. Both are jialat and land in East side of Sillypore.

2) A scam. There are many online scams in many ways. They even use big names like Microsoft, Google, National bodies. But look at the email address - either hotmail, gmail or those ending with Ur/Tk (some other countries other than the original countries.

Just a note - no matter how genuine the offer sounds, no matter real it seems, any money transfer does not need you to pay a fee or a charge upfront. Banks can always deduct any legitimate fees from the amount transferred. So don't be fooled by remitting money first.

Another thing - a new scam offers to pay you cash first for you to deposit in your account (say $10,000) and then ask you to withdraw and pay him $2,000 as commission. He will assure you that it is not a scam, as he pays you first. Don't do it. The money is fake - and if you are caught, you carry the burden. If it clears (at some small branches) you think you are safe? - No, when the money goes to the bank clearing houses, it will be detected and trace back to your account.

Safer to buy lottery ticket! You lose dollars, but win million. (In the scam you lose thousands, and win stress, anxiety and possibly jail).

Thanks for the analysis, very interesting. But I stopped to chat with her, and dont want to waste the time and take the risk, just stop chatting and block her

Asia1
31-07-2012, 10:36 PM
Sounds like he/she scammed someone else asking him to deposit the money, so deposit to which bank? Yours. so you take the bait while he goes away scott free as you're the direct party between the victim and whatedver transacted between her and the victim fingers to be pointed at you.
Either way who the heck in this world would trust a total stranger besides, why give yourself extra worry, what's in it for you? no point

Agree bro ddog and I also feel quite fishy, I told her that I will open a new account for that transaction, and she keep saying just use my existing account and just give her my account details.

To the end I feel she is more interested in my account details, I suspect she may connect to some Malaysia financial crime group, and try cracking my account and stealing $$ there ??:rolleyes:

Asia1
31-07-2012, 10:41 PM
Bro another way is u go report to police n let them settle this...who knows u might be given given a award for helping the police busting a syndicate!

Dont want to get myself in trouble, anyway think police also monitors the site so they can use the information provided here to further investigate :D

not money laundering. u will see for eg 5k into account. then she say emergency, send 4.8k, the 200 u keep as thanks. u send 4.8k to her, then the TT bounce, bank deduct the amt from your bank. u out of pocket 4.8k.

even if u empty ur account, the bank will still hound u for the owed amount. never take unknown $$$ into your bank, anything goes wrong is your own responsibility

Possible, that is why I stopped the chatting, dont want to get into the shit and gain nothing :o

Never knew theres so many different types of such scams. But i feel that no monies will ever be deposited into your account...

Really learn something here, and all the possibility is there.

thanks for your pts, will return when regaining my power :D

Johnston
01-08-2012, 01:08 AM
cos which singaporean will say he or she is raised from orchard road, telok blangah, woodlands etc?

after asking around a bit of my friend...

yes some of singapore will say "i raised in such and such area" because they from birth keep live in that area :eek:

goodu
02-08-2012, 12:37 AM
yes some of singapore will say "i raised in such and such area" because they from birth keep live in that area :eek:

the reason for saying cos singapore is not that big and by saying which area u stay, people will be clueless (cos some foreigner never heard of singapore!). most singaporeans simply say raise and live in singapore.

Johnston
02-08-2012, 03:52 AM
most singaporeans simply say raise and live in singapore.

ah ha thats why to reinforce scam - a "singaporean" would say "raised in so and so area".............. we must remember here that even if "singaporean" say raised in "pulau blakang mati" - it may be true because Sentosa way back in Bonny Hicks time people still live there.... and i personally know someone who grow up in Pulau Ubin although she aint an old granny :D


point: an american born in the state of lousiana in order to reinforce regional tie would say "proudly born and bred in the state of Lousiana" and a german who spent his formative years in Hannover would say the same :D

Bottom line: to enhance scams (or to prove veracity) - People not only say the county of "birth" they also say "region" of birth :)

littlepok
02-08-2012, 11:31 AM
the reason for saying cos singapore is not that big and by saying which area u stay, people will be clueless (cos some foreigner never heard of singapore!). most singaporeans simply say raise and live in singapore.

i kanna such crap before and exposed her with ease. the issue is that they don't know how we differentiate singapore. we usually say we from singapore, will not say katong, jurong etc. to the americans, u will not say USA but be more specific like from dallas, california. british will say leeds, manchester etc. therefore to the unknowns, they will think katong is a state (to make them more localised).

try asking them which school they are from, what subjects they take at O levels, where they like to hang out in singapore. u see the loopholes bursting into their cb holes, super big and airy that u know they dua kang (big hole).

i admit that i got conned to see their webcam and lost 20+usd before i realise the same modus operandi is used by many of such bitches. haha too empty and lost back then, tio con liao damn pissed. lesson learnt, hope other bros don't fall for such scammy bitch

lonin
02-08-2012, 11:39 AM
i kanna such crap before and exposed her with ease. the issue is that they don't know how we differentiate singapore. we usually say we from singapore, will not say katong, jurong etc. to the americans, u will not say USA but be more specific like from dallas, california. british will say leeds, manchester etc. therefore to the unknowns, they will think katong is a state (to make them more localised).

try asking them which school they are from, what subjects they take at O levels, where they like to hang out in singapore. u see the loopholes bursting into their cb holes, super big and airy that u know they dua kang (big hole).


Nice bro thanks for the tips! oh and to moderator it is confirm a scam. 2 things to think

1. There is no free lunch in this world!
2. whats the reason for her to do that?