How To Identify Scams

Today, an idiot called me and told me that he is from MOH.. Number one, he used my dialect name but pronounced it in mandarin and pronounced my surname as the last word.. which is sala already. Scam alert, he speaks mandarin. He speaks with an accent and it sounds like he is from China. He asked me if I had sent in a package from overseas. I replied, "Even if I did, what has it got to do with MOH?" He said that the package contained banned medication and would like to find out more like why I did that. I asked him if he can speak english.  He said he can but he cannot use english because this is CHINESE department of MOH. I told him my mother say speak chinese one is scam... LOL Immediately someone else came and took over and said this really is MOH, I should check their number online and we can see this is MOH hotline number. I told them dont waste my time and hang up. He called me back again and asked me to check MOH number. (which checks out as their general hotline number...

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!  ——— 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 ...