By I know everyone is waiting for my s’pore trip post. But, there’s something that I want to blog about before that. It’s a kidnap phone scam my family received this afternoon.
I was out, jogging with the boyfriend this morning and went for lunch after that. Half way through my lunch, my brother called and asked where I am in a desperate tone. Having my lunch, i replied. My mom then took over the phone call, and told me that they have received a kidnap phone scam, saying that I was kidnapped.
my mom said when she picked up the house phone, it began with “MY” voice in tears saying:” mom, please save me now! those people are beating me up…..”
Mom got really worried, then asked where am “I” and who are those people. “I” cried desperately and replied everything with I don’t know.
Mom got panicked as she thought the voice sounded very much like me, she hang up the call in a way as if the line got chopped off. & quickly she asked my brother and sister to call me and see whether they could reach me. Later on, realized it was just a phone scam.
the “ME” called again and asked for help, which immediately replaced by the voice of a man who claimed that he is the kidnapper. He scolded my mom for hanging his call, and asked whether my mom still wants “ME” to be alive.
My mom already knew it’s a scam, and she sort of the told the supposed kidnapper to just take me away.
Guess the so-called-kidnapper soon know that his plan failed, without wasting excess phone credit, he hang up the phone.
Though I am safe, but getting such phone calls sent chills up the spine of my mom.
& somehow, worsen her health situation.
what kind of bastardly society is this? I wish those poeple could just go to hell for doing this to my mom.
hell, this is a feeling that no one deserve to go through.
The plan failed this time, i wonder who is the next victim as I bet they will be starting to search for another number from the telephone directory.
Let’s just pray.
Dear Lord, please bless that my mom will be feeling better by now and everything will be just fine. Also, there will not be any next victim as those nasty human creatures will get their punishment soon enough. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.
Lynn Shane
October 27, 2009hey!! freakky la..
But its the first time im reading ur prayer!
woooots~ way to go babe!
p.s Amen! :) take care~
khoi choong
October 27, 2009wat the shit m’sia happening..
FraulineGoh
October 27, 2009i received that kind of call be4. their crying skills so pro, luckily I listen to the phone call not my mum. kinda scary. so must be alert! :D
Sher Mun
October 27, 2009what the hell? those kind of ppl got no life =.= how’s ur mom now??
Spectre
October 27, 2009Wo > this one serious stuff. I hope u have lodged police report ASAP
kentzai
October 27, 2009tiu kao the scam person la=.=
bapak lifeless
eklern
October 27, 2009do be careful
there is alot of this kinda scam nowadays
do take care of urself..scams like this might turn up to be the real thing
Adele Archuleta
October 27, 2009omg! wtf is this happening. FUCK.
and im damn happy cause I see prayers in your post!
woohoo, AMEN LORD! :D
mynjayz
October 27, 2009amen! Anyway thats really scary. but thank god everything is okay. but one thing i wonder why, how they got ur number as in so coincidence the voice like u, its a girl and yeahh.
hitomi
October 27, 2009gosh, what a cunning idea nowadays criminers have!! you better be careful too….
Zues
October 27, 2009F*** those bastard!
Simon Seow
October 27, 2009Good thing you can be reached in time.
Kennee
October 27, 2009wtf man… this kinda scam also got… report police…
caihong
October 27, 2009yeap,peopel nowadays are scary
my brother’s primary school,there are lots aunties receive those calls for no reason.Wondering how they get the numbers.
Hmm,if i were you,my mum gonna b freaking scared as well.
thank God you are alrite:)
cherry
October 27, 2009Tziaaa!!!! You really really have to be careful…
I’ve just told this to my mom, she ask me pass the msg to u that pls do take care of urself cause this might turn up to be a real 1 they are a group of ppl who do this kind of things… They call ur mom and when u think tat its fake, they will plan to turn it to a real 1 DO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF tziaaa…
vivienne
October 27, 2009i’ve fren family who received this..and i wrote a post bout it n told my parents too…*sigh* such idiots..
isabellmiao
October 27, 2009OKAY… I thought this kind of things only happens in movie wtf. =.=
I guess like what Cherry said, better take care of yourself..
And also glad that your mom didn’t believe them. Hope she’ll relieve herself from the shock.. God bless..
CWKen
October 27, 2009ur mum should’ve lead him to the police by plotting something up somehow. Better make a police report, I suspect they have some information about you and your family somehow
XX
October 27, 2009my bff got it too, last month
cindy khor
October 27, 2009they really are so inhumane to do such things… never encounter one before but hopefully this wouldn’t happen to anyone close to me. and how on earth did they know that your family has a daughter??
Tian Chad
October 27, 2009Good to hear everyone is okay, make sure always contact with parent ya.
Take care
Rei
October 27, 2009wthell? i read about these scams on the internet but haven’t really heard of it happening to anyone i know. scaryyy shit.
jian aka miao
October 27, 2009O.o!!
OMG! what’s wrong with people these days >.<
By the way, be careful ler..
jane_gun
October 27, 2009Dear Tzia,
It’s perplexing indeed to hear of such a terrible scam. I hope you, Gu Gu, Gu Zang, Tshen and Ee have all recovered from the shock and are all ok now. Will be keeping you and your family in my prayers – God bless!
Hugs,
Your couz
J
October 27, 2009i worked in the music school and i receive such call. i was worried since many kids in music school, they call suddenly got hang up and the naive me even called up the telekom to ask if they able to track the number so i could call back or police report to “rescue” the kid =.=
Maggie
October 27, 2009Tell you what… I kena before also… but the funny thing was, I was the one who picked up the phone and guess what the other party said? He said in a tearful tone: “Mum, I’m in danger.”
LOL!!!!
Yeah… I DO have many kids at the age of 19.
And so I hung up. haha.
gwen
October 27, 2009oh my gosh! that’s bad! ppl r such dumb arse these days.
Harry Gan
October 28, 2009I’m a frequent reader of yours and its really scary on what you encountered… But I also want to advice you to be EXTRA careful when you are outside! Coz those pranksters may feel humiliated coz plans failed and want to make a real one.
Do be careful always.^^
Xiaopei
October 28, 2009Omgosh! They’re as lifeless as shits. Wish your mom get well soon. *Curse those fkers
daniel tong
October 28, 2009it must be u r too famous so people easily getting your information and cheat your closest family members.
y the scammer know how to copy ur voice?
y he know u r not in the home during his call?
y he know ur house phone no. ?
It might be someone know u?
better careful during this period.
PEEjAY
October 28, 2009hey, my gf’s mum came across through the same case as well recently..
it’s my gf’s younger brother being “kidnapped”..
must becareful nowadays..
he
October 28, 2009my female friend kena like this also… nothing to do with whether tziaaa is famous or not…tziaaa dont worry k… anyway just tell your family members not to fill in the correct phone number for unnecessary forms… and you can pay some small amount of money so that your dad’s name, address and phone number will not appear in the telecom directory( yellow page)… dun worry ur mum will be allright
Tracy
October 28, 2009my frend’s mum received one call also.
call my frend half way through the class to make sure she’s safe.
& her my realize 2 things during phone call:
1. not like her voice.
2. when the girl ask for help, she mentioned :ma~ …(but my frend usually X address her mother :ma 1…)
after tat i told my parents,
my dad quite funny & said, frm now onwards, u guys should have a “proper” name for us… so that, if i / ur mum receive such phone in the future, v can differentiate it…
actually u may suggest ur parents this idea too ..hehe
Cheesie
October 28, 2009*hugs aunty*
Fei
October 28, 2009Actuallty this is just a outdated cheating method, there is an upgraded one. Firstly, they will pretend as a staff from your phone service provider such as Maxis, Digi… and tell u that there is a service to update your phone so they need you to switch off the phone for half to one hr. After that, they will assure u switch off the phone and call your family later. Then, these bastards will tell your family that u r kidnapped. When your family wanna call u to confirm this, then your family will unable to contact u and your family will in worries. Then, these bastards will threaten your family and ask your family to cash in money to their bank acc. So, pls beware of this…
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huiThenG
October 28, 2009hey tzia, my mom received the same scam called yesterday too..i think they were belong to the same “fraud”..so scary!!!
hbin
October 28, 2009you went jogging?
copykate
October 28, 2009would be fun if you were the one who answered the call XD
Freda
October 28, 2009poor aunty :(
those bastards are too free .
what happened nowadays ? hm .
anyway, take care and beware yah anyway to go next time .
take care =)
josh
October 28, 2009wow u pray to Jesus with calling humans, creatures?
just so you know,God ask us to love thy enemies.. :D
hope ur mom is doing alright
Jillian
October 28, 2009i also agree with daniel tong. I mean, how many chances are there for the girl to fake the voice like yours? :( Sure is someone you know and I don’t think it was coincidentally call your house from directory. Please becareful about your private information, hope you’ll be safe from now on. :)
Kimie
October 29, 2009Sis,
Be very very be careful arr from now on… at least give a it call or maybe sms telling where were you even though you’ve all ready inform your family that you’ve goin’ out with your friend or someone else…
Haiyoooo..!! really-really scary arr nowadays with all those scam or maybe a real situation.. whose knows… luckily you’re accompany by your BF…
Dylan
October 29, 2009the community is just going down down down…sigh…
i really hate prank callers.
tziaaa
October 29, 2009lynnshane – hee, i rarely see you here. ^^
khoichoong – shyt like these. *sigh!
Frauline Goh – i wish I am the one who picked up the call too. =(
shermum – she wasn’t doing that fine. weak~
Spectre – I don’t think the police will do anything, too many such cases i guess. =(
kentzai – indeed lifeless.
Spectre – walao. don’t scared me.
Adelechow – Amen!
Mynjayz – i hope it’s seriously by luck.
hitomi – thanks. I will. ^^
Zues – exactly!!
simon – luckily, thanks God!
kennee – ii have heard of it, never expect it to happen on me.
caihong – all mothers are the same yea. =)
cherry – omg, seriously, i pray God that that will not happen!
Vivienne – yes, should get them informed!
isabellamiao – i really wish my mom will get will soon. thanks!
cwken – my mom wanted too, but she really got shocked and thought as long as I am safe, nothing else matters.
xx – glad that we are safe now.
cindykhor – by luck, i suppose, and I hope.
tianchad – i will!!
rei – I am the first then. lol.
jian aka miao – i will, thanks!!
Jane gun – thanks for your concern cousin! =)
j – that’s worst, anyway, always have an eyes on those kids! this world is not safe anymore.
Maggie – now that’s hilarious. anyway, you do have lots of kids, don’t you?
gwen – there are not dumb. and because of that, my mom got shocked, like seriously! =(
Harry – please, i wouldn’t want that to happen.
xiaopei – thanks, girl.
danieltong – sei yeh you, stop scaring me la please! i will be careful!
Peejay – this world is crazy!
he – thanks, i will take note of those things!
tracy – lol, my mom suggested the same thing too.
cheesie – thanks. – in behalf of my mom.
Fei – oh yea, i have heard of that too. maybe they are still not PRO enough then. and I am lucky because they are so. Thanks God.
huitheng – you serious??!!! is she okay?
huaibin – why not??!!
copycate – if only i have the chance.
freda – i will be extra careful from now onwards, don’t want my mom to worry anymore.
josh – are these people still call human by committing such inhuman act?
jillian – yes, let’s just hope it’s seriously just by luck!
kimiw – i will do. =) thanks! yea, and lucky my mom has my siblings with her.
dylan – it isn’t just prank. it’s scam/
wei wen
October 30, 2009Hello there!
& oh my gosh, u know what?
My dad got the EXACT same phone call, crying to him saying the EXACT same thing..
just that it was a boy’s voice so he didnt believe the call although he still called me to check on me O___O”
All these idiots ar, really no life.
tziaaa
October 30, 2009gosh, luckily you have no brothers.
lifeless people! tsk tsk tsk.
M
October 30, 2009Omg. Got emails bout those stuffs and thought nothing like that would really happen. Be careful!
tziaaa
October 30, 2009me too have the same kind of mindset like you before this.
Sher Mun
October 30, 2009aww. take care (: those ppl got no life. becareful ya :D