I got this email from Xord last night:
An hour ago, my dad was approach by 2 young chinese boys that asking my father to open an coupon. Surprisely, my dad just won a big prize that they comfirm that’s one of the big prizes like vios or kancil or motocycles, they even show us a piece of newspaper advert that contain their prizes, so, seriously, we conviced just like that, so we agreed to buy the stuff.
After that, one of these boys call their supervisor, and i started to feel curious when they talking in Bahasa Melayu, so i waited for their supervisor to see either he is malay or chinese. And then, when a chinese guy come, straight away i power up my laptop, and google up “sinuri marketing” and i got result linking to your site and complaint from consumer.com.my, so its clearly its just another scam.
They all gone now, after i show them your site and they trying hard to run away by giving stupid reason, so, i just want to say thank you so much for giving me so much info about them. Please, go on with your work so nobody else will be cheated.
Thank you.. sorry for my bad english..
You’re most welcome Xod. I’m very happy that Wijaya Watch has contributed in reducing the number of potential victims of scamming company Welley Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd and its scamming subsidiaries like Wijaya Marketing and Sinuri Marketing.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I’m so amazed to see this website because I almost got conned last year, and only realized how close I came to get conned now. The modus operandi is identical. In my version, when the chinese guy came up to me under the blistering hot sun in the parking lot yapping about his coupon thing whilst I was holding my screaming toddler by our car and holding a melting ice cream, I was very pissed off by his apparent lack of courtesy for my discomfort. When he handed me the coupon to tear open despite my hands-tied circumstances, I was almost very certain that this was a con; but not certain enough. I just gave him a look and he offered to tear it open for me. Which he did, and to which he started jumping up and down for joy despite sweat dripping off his face because of the sun and producing a newspaper to show me an article of some other winner. I was very turned off by his excitement for something which should be for my enjoyment and I thought “funny” you happened to have this newspaper article just in case you need to convince “winners” like me and the newspaper is laminated or wrapped in plastic and I was thinking obviously you intend to use this newspaper for quite some while whilst he explained that I was supposed to go with his to his boss’s office in my car (I thought he should meet my husband before presuming I was simply gonna pick up some stranger)! To persuade me more, he was gesticulating towards me and slightly brushed his finger on my hand or something and that was the last straw. I said no thanks, I don’t want and just walked off.
My husband (big burly Belgian) of course… not so gullible as me when he walked back with me passing the same group of people, gave them an evil eye and loudly said “these people are just cheaters, look at them”. And they were still standing around in the heat in the parking lot looking around for people to approach. Under normal daily circumstances the weirdness don’t really stand out too much.. but as my husband said, if you have to pay first forget about it.
Recently I almost got conned (again) by someone calling on my mobile phone and knowing my name saying he does verification on credit card activity for the year 2008 and he was calling from credit card centre something Armada. He asked if I used Visa or Master Card and I said I have an Eon Bank master card and then he said can you give me the credit card number. I think a red light went off in my dim head murmuring “credit card number… phone… bad..”. I asked again what it was for and told him I didn’t have it with me at the time. I checked with my parents if anyone was calling them for this kind of stuff and my parents almost jumped out of my mobile phone telling me not to give any number over the phone. Over about 3 weeks he’s called around 3 times and the last time he called he sounded annoyed that I took so long. I told my husband who took the number and called the guy and made a big show of talking potential business “Hello, Mr Redzuan, how are you?” before launching into a tirade of, “hey, why are you calling my wife (my full name)? Huh? Who are you? Bastard!” and this guy who initially responded in english subsided into malay as if he can’t understand english. My husband threatened police reports and when he tried to call the number back, it was not reachable (Hmpf!). He got someone to call up digi and ask them to look into the matter. The number was registered to a company it seems. Bewsre: 0162107580 nombor hantu.
My suggestion to anyone who can afford it:
Get a lawyer and file a legal suit for fraud. Or go to Bar Council Legal Aid Centre and see what they can help you (free legal service for income below 2k or something like that).