Age Old Marketing Scams: Lucky Draw
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Dear All,
Today, someone called my mobile number informing me that I have been fortunate to win in a lucky draw. The lady spent some 10 minutes explaining as follows:
>> I have won a lucky draw from some shopping center
>> I need to personally come and collect the prize with my wife
>> And attend a special 3 hour presentation of the prize/s
To all of the above, I told her; "I know about such marketing tricks, it's similar to TimShare scam some years ago. Don't you know it's all over the INTERNET and everyone knows the trick?"
She still insist that they're LICENSED, have Police Clearance, and all that crap. I told her; "Of course you are registered, and what has Police got to do with you if people merely gets entrapped by your hidden terms in the Agreements they sign?" She ran out of words and wanted to hand me over to her SUPERVISOR and I just hung up.
Ladies & Gentlemen of this Forum, WE must stop this kind of BULL-CRAP business from striving because of the following points:
>> our personal details/particulars such as address, IC numbers and contact numbers are not safe in the hands of such people/businesses.
>> Furthermore, WHERE & HOW did they obtain personal details from? Easy, those Lucky Draw Coupons you need to fill in at shopping centers wherein if you purchase a certain amount you get so many coupons. These coupons when the draw date is over, were NOT discarded PROPERLY. I think they were sold.
>> This accessibility and IMPROPER handling of public's personal details, MUST be brought up to the attention of the proper authorities, so that these opportunistic businesses & or companies, cannot capitalize on the ill-informed, and the less read people in society.
The so called company that called me, reflected this number in my phone xxxxxxx -
at times, u can even find IC numbers of pple on websites
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Maybe it IS true...i donnoe.
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No, it CANNOT be true because of following:Originally posted by Lord_Of_Hayan:Maybe it IS true...i donnoe.
>> Failed to give me name of shopping center I won from
>> Failed to describe winning prize
>> Too longwinded about attending their "presentation"
Even if it is true; she said it is a $3000 shopping prize - errm.. I can do without this amount of shopping. I would consider if it's something like $300,000.00
But still, the only big money that can truly be true, can only come from Singapore Pools. hehehehe
and of course, through hard work. -
received a call today, kept asking for my mum.
i asked her who is she, wat's the matter, she dun wana tell me, kept asking for my mum. then she hanged up on me. so damn rude! Must be also time share de. -
99.999% it isOriginally posted by browniebaobao:received a call today, kept asking for my mum.
i asked her who is she, wat's the matter, she dun wana tell me, kept asking for my mum. then she hanged up on me. so damn rude! Must be also time share de.
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i admire you patience.
i will just tell them "not interested" and hang off.
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not everyone knows the trick.....Originally posted by ShutterBug:Dear All,
Today, someone called my mobile number informing me that I have been fortunate to win in a lucky draw. The lady spent some 10 minutes explaining as follows:
>> I have won a lucky draw from some shopping center
>> I need to personally come and collect the prize with my wife
>> And attend a special 3 hour presentation of the prize/s
To all of the above, I told her; "I know about such marketing tricks, it's similar to TimShare scam some years ago. Don't you know it's all over the INTERNET and everyone knows the trick?"
there are still greedy people out there that fall for it...
While they do get rejections from lots of people, but all they need it few in a hundreds or thousand to get good $$$
the membership cost fews K onwards -
i always ask them to send the prize to me
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if is geniue prize, all they need to do is to send you a form to collect the prize...Originally posted by de_middle:i always ask them to send the prize to me
where got need to sit in for 3 hours and listen to presentation one ?????!!!!!! -
I always tell them not interested then they just hang up.
Hours of talks to persuade you to buy their products. Musthave credit cards la.. waste to time.
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Best... just tell them you are student or under NS... they will hang up on you.
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They often say bring down ur credit card as ur card number is yr lucky draw numberOriginally posted by Urroh:I always tell them not interested then they just hang up.
Hours of talks to persuade you to buy their products. Musthave credit cards la.. waste to time.
what BS !!!
they want to trick u to bring your credit card so that u can charged to ur card under pressure selling -
u tried it and it works all the time ?Originally posted by caleb_chiang:Best... just tell them you are student or under NS... they will hang up on you.