My sis told me her friend had just been scammed in a very high end scam and had her credit card used to purchase high ticket items.
We figured maybe she was not careful enough about keeping her credit card but we found out later that she did not pass any credit card info to the scammer.
We came across this post and figured this must have been how she got scammed.
In the end, no one could stop the transaction and she was at risk of losing the money because neither Lazada or the bank could do anything about this.
Sharing the post here for educational purposes...
Info drawn from: https://www.facebook.com/704083217/posts/10159005397258218/?d=n
Reproduced here with permission of Stanley Fu.
Scam alert (Very high level) and I almost fell for It!
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Someone who speaks very fluent English called me. He spoke with a slight Indian accent.
He claimed to be from Lazada and said that they detected a transaction from UK, while my last log IP was in Singapore.
Hence, they have barred the UK transaction and suspended it.
For further security, he will now help me reset and barred the transaction. All he needed, was my OTP to verify if i am the right person.
Knowing such common scam, I went on to verify his identity instead.
He was able to tell me my email account as well as my Contact Number and even my address! He was so pro that when he read me my email address, he said “you email starts with stan****@ymail.com. Your hp number ends with **33.” He don’t just read out the full details and that makes him very pro like a trained customer service officer.
Following that, to help me bar the fraudulent transaction, he shared that he will sent me an email with a OTP to verify if I am the real "Stanley" he is supposed to speak to.
When I received the email while on the phone with him, the email and sms sent, was indeed from Lazada! It is not a phishing email or sms.
At the moment, it makes sense to give him the OTP.
The person sounded so genuine and wanted to protect my lazada account!
Somehow, out of my gut, i refused to give him the OTP and want to check further. I have this feeling because I heard many people doing calls at the background. This is very unlike a secured call.
Thats when he gets very irritated, and kept asking what do I need to verify further? He kept saying he has many calls to make and I have kind of spent 15 mins of his time still not believing him.
I scolded him for his impatience and hung up immediately. His impatience gave it away.
I called up Lazada and found out that it was a scam!
Basically, they have gotten enough info about me, and they want to trick me into resetting my password.
1) Hence the OTP from Lazada is indeed from Lazada.
2) The SMS Otp was also from Lazada
2) The moment he gets the OTP, they will change my password and charge cash credit transactions.
Hence! Pls be careful! They sound so legit especially when they are able to produce a real lazada email and scam you for that!
If you pickup similar calls, don’t fall into their trap.
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