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FFN
25th October 2008, 02:42 PM
Hey dudes, just a warning that there's a phone scam from Malaysia going around down here. Some woman with broken english from unintelligible company asks to do a survey. I say okay. She asks how would I feel if their company opened up in Australia. I said sure, whatevers.

She thanked me immediately after that and offered to send something and asked for my address. I refused. So she then called my dad, whom I warned, and he just refused to participate.


So the lesson is - Malaysia = JERK, as their former PM Mahathir so often demonstrated.

jacksplatt11
25th October 2008, 03:08 PM
Haha crazy, I just hang up on all telemarketers/survey people, so no-ones getting my address any time soon :D

GoktimusPrime
25th October 2008, 08:12 PM
I torture unsolicited callers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhqL4pDryE). :)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Transfandom%20Comic/transfandom13.jpg
^Based on an actual phone call

Strangely enough they never call me no more. ;)

E|dan
26th October 2008, 11:59 PM
lol...im Malaysian and im unaware of this thing going on >.<

FFN
30th October 2008, 10:55 PM
I read up a bit on Malaysian phone scams before posting, and unfortunately it's a growing illegitimate "business".

And I was joking about the = JERK thing :p

GoktimusPrime
30th October 2008, 11:21 PM
Why dey so like dat-lah?

MV75
30th October 2008, 11:23 PM
So what's the actual scam? That they get your address that anyone could get from the phonebook?