Now, the scary part isn’t the scam, but the teacher who was scammed. You’d thought that the teaching profession would be the last gullible profession to fall into such cheap tricks. But when it comes to money, I think even the most logical person can lose their sanity once in a while.
Apparently, this scam is also codenamed E-Mall or Kua Kua Le (Chinese translation: Scratch-Scratch and be Merry!) and the modus operandi is somewhat as follow:
1) Entice you by telling you to scratch some tickets ala lottery.
2) After looking at the results of your scratchings, the scammer will act all excited and claims that you’ve won something.
3) To claim the prize, you must follow the scammer to their office, where they will then show you how you can win bigger prizes.
4) However, to win the bigger prizes, you must also hand down a deposit and agree to certain terms and conditions. This is where things get nasty, since the prizes are all unbranded items from unknown manufacturers.
Lucky draw turns out to be a scam…
According to her, a promoter had approached her and handed over a booklet that purportedly contained lucky draw tickets.
At the promoter’s request, she picked one of the tickets and discovered that she had won a home theatre set of a well-known brand worth RM3,000.
“I was elated to know I had won such a prize and the promoter kept repeating that luck was on my side,� she said in an interview on Wednesday.
Again, I shall emphasize again the golden rule when you are suddenly being enticed to something that is too good to be true: “There’s no free lunch.”
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John
