Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fraud online trading of facial mask. 66 victims being cheated for more than 70K.

Kuala Lumpur: Blame it on very low price? 66 victims being cheated for more than 70 thousand ringgit in transaction of facial mask selling through internet.

66 victims through Internet JB Forum (www.jbtalks.cc) contact a girl who nickname as "Da Mao Mi" a.k.a. "Big Cat" in Chinese to purchase large quantity of facial mask.

"Big Cat" who originally belonged to the senior members of the Forum. Automatically, she gain her trust from the forum member for dealing through internet. Due to the price for the facial mask is cheaper than market price. Victims hoped to sell the product for making some profit or for personal use.

In addition, she also promised that the victims will be receiving their product for 2-3 weeks, so they do not suspect it is a fraud. And a few days later, when the money credited into the bank account. "Big cat" are also SMS notify victims that she has received the payment.

But after a few days later, when asked about the facial mask by the victims, she has all kinds of excuses, and she lost contact a few days ago. All victims did not receive the products later on. Subsequently, the Forum began to discuss about this case. And they made a conclusion that it is a fraud.

10 victims were attending a press conference today. After they did a phone number search, they believe the telephone number of "Big cat" is belong to Lim Chin Yee. However, the bank account is belong to a guy who name as Chong Wen Bin.

As forum member said, Chong Wen Bin claimed to be innocent, he was paid for 50 ringgit per transaction, and claimed to have been held a press conference to clarify.

张伟伦Zhang Wei Lun, male (29 years) said that he bought a 1800 pcs, and paid a total of more than 2900 ringgit to the "big cat." In the purchase, he talked to "big cats" by phone and SMS contact and confirmed that the phone is indeed belong to a female.

陈翠雯Chen Chui Wen, female (20 years), although she was reminded by her friends to take precaution, but also deceived about 2130 ringgit. Other victims were to deceive the amount of uncertainty, each about 100 ringgit to 4,000 ringgit.

MCA Public Services Complaints Department 拿督张天赐 Datuk Zhang Tianci that most of the victims are reported to the police station, and advised the public not to be attracted by bargain. He made it clear that until this year from June last year, he has received about eight internet fraud.

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