Chan received a phone call from a man claiming to be from Bank Islam saying that her credit card was overdue (RM7000; to be exact). She doesn't hold any credit cards from that bank. So the man told her that probably her IC and name had been used and asked her to call up Bank Negara. He gave her the number and also mentioned the particular department to contact.
Chan phoned Telecoms for Bank Negara's number and found the number different from the earlier number given to her. She called the real Bank Negara number and was informed that there is no such thing.
Then she called the fraud number and was surprised that it sounded exactly like the actual Bank Negara number....ie the process that she has to go through the auto-telephonist right to the music when put on hold.
So, beware...it's not the first time such tale has come to our ears but this is the first time a person who is really close to me has experienced it.
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I once had someone calling and claiming that he was calling from EON Bank and that I had outstanding debt on my credit card (which I don't have). I was in a cheey mood then. The guy had such atrocious English and it ended up with me questioning him how come his bank put people with such bad English to deal with customers and telling him it's bad for the bank's image. Lots of other blah, blah, blah conversation took place... but in the end he put down the phone. LOL!!!
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