Beware always

If you realize, in my fb status, I did mention that I've been conned by 2 Malay males.

Alot of my friends asked How? When? Are you ok?

Thanks for the concern. I'm fine :)

So what's the story?

Here it goes.....

I was surfing the net searching for short term rental/homestay. I need a place to stay at Kuantan for one month. Asked people around me, unfortunately they do not have any recommendation. They asked me to surf the net. Well, of course I did think of that at the beginning. But I would like to try asking people around me. Of course lah, trust-able. No choice, I've surfed the website which I'm sure everyone familiar with. ibilik.my. 

Managed to found an apartment at Palm Court for rent, which cost only RM700 per month. I've called the owner (Halim Othman) and we've agreed where I'll be paying him full amount of rental once we met and he pass me the key. Then this fella Halim Othman asked me to called his friend Muhammad Firdaus as he is not at Kuantan at the moment. So I called Firdaus to confirm the rental and of course to tell him the time and date we'll be reaching there.

Surprisingly, this Firdaus asked me to bank in deposit of RM350 as rental confirmation. At first, I agreed. Then thanks to Dear for telling me not to do so. I only banked in RM100 for him. After I've banked in, I called this Firdaus. He picked up the phone and again I tell him when we will be arriving.

The next day, once I reached the apartment I called Firdaus and failed to reach him. I thought he might be having prayer or busy with his work. (It was 2pm that time) Called not only once or twice, but I've called more than 10 times! Still no one picked the phone. What I do next? I called the owner Halim. He pretended that he don't know anything and says he will call Firdaus, and called me back. Of course, he din call me back.

I called him and he says he failed to call his friend. WTF. He asked me to wait. I've waited from 2pm until 4pm, and called this Firdaus thousand times. Failed.

At that time, I knew I was conned.

Well, I've made a police report regarding this matter.

Even the amount of money was only RM100, but still...I'm conned. The reason why I'm making police report is to let the police know that there's this kind of thing happening out here. And I'm posting this to let you guys out there aware about this. I have all the details of the men, names, contacts and even his account number!

Talking about police, well, I've asked what are the actions will be taken since I've made the report. The officer said that there will be an IO (which I think stand for Investigation Officer) call me for details.

Surprisingly, no phone calls from them until this moment! Now I really doubt their credibility. It seems to me like it's a waste I made the police report after all.

Moral of the story: Do not simply transfer/deposit money to unknown people even tho it's a small amount. You might get conned. (or not)