Tuesday, November 10, 2009 just came back from far east. woke up around 11am today. slacked home till afternoon and cab-ed to sis shop. find shunyee & wencai for awhile at near by & have lunch. after that sis wants to celebrate mummy's birthday so we had dinner. just simple dinner cause we cant celebrate much. had pizza hut! yummy. dad came to fetch us after that. went to far east & shop-ed. bought a few things & now i am broke. lol~ bus-ed home & gonna sleep soon. tmr will be a better day.
goodbye!
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Be wary of those who come bearing gifts.
You may like to circulate this to your Singapore friends.
Just happen last week in Singapore .
SOMETHING TO BE AWARE OF
A lady, named Mary, wants to let you all know that she & her husband have been the victims of credit card fraud this week and she felt that she should warn you all about the clever scam.
this is what happens :
Last Wednesday Mary had a phone call late morning from Express Couriers to ask if she was going to be home as he had a delivery for her. He said he would there in roughly an hour. He turned up with a beautiful basket of flowers and wine. She expressed her surprise as she wasn't expecting anything like this and said she was intrigued to know who was sending her such a lovely gift. He said he was only delivering the gift and the card was being sent separately (the card has never arrived). There was a consignment note with the gift.
He went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol he has to charge the recipient $3.50 as proof that he has actually delivered to an adult, and not left it on a door step if the recipient is out, to be stolen or taken by children. This seemed logical and she offered to get the cash.
He then said that the company required the payment to be by EFTPOS so he's not handling cash and everything is properly accounted for.
Her husband , Frank, was there and got his credit card and 'John' swiped the card on this small mobile machine that also had a small screen upon which Frank entered in his pin number. A receipt was printed out and given to them.
Between last Thursday and Monday $4,000 was withdrawn from their credit account at ATM machines in the north shore area. It appears a dummy credit card was made using the details in the machine and of course, they had Frank's pin number. The Bank has stopped their cards and she'd been to the Police, where they confirmed that it is a definite scam and many households were hit during the first 3 days of October.
So PLEASE be wary of accepting a gift you're not expecting especially if the card is not with it. We've all received gifts like this and would never dream that it could be such a despicable act. Please also let other female friends and relatives know. Hopefully, these fraudsters have ceased this activity by now but you never know.
