Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: On November 06, 2018, a couple went to Chom Chao1 police post to file a complaint that they got scammed US$2000 by a phone call.
The victim, a 30-year-old woman factory worker, received a call from an anonymous person that she had won a big amount of money, $100,000, but she needed to send them $2,000 to make an account to receive the money.
After sending the $2,000, the scammer asked her to send 500$ more, but the woman didn't have any more money, so she tried to borrow other people's money. Then she realized that it was a scam, so she and her husband went to file the complaint with the police.

Happens all the time - interested to know how she sent the money; Wing agents were taught to identify this type of scam & prevent the money transfer - amazing how many times however the customer insisted on sending the cash despite the warning, and that it is still going on some 8 years since the first case. Be fair, many folks outside Cambodia got scammed like this via email before it became a "Oh, you're a Nigerian prince and want to give me money? ... LOL". How many more years before Khmers have heard enough scam stories to use their own grey cells ...

I have something to sell to her:

hanno wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:34 pm I have something to sell to her:

Are you selling it by the meter or by the kilo. I might be interested if the price is right.

Duncan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:54 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:34 pm I have something to sell to her:

Are you selling it by the meter or by the kilo. I might be interested if the price is right.

I'll tell you once you send me $2,000.......

1) They were trying this on my brother in law. They requested money to pay for lawyers fees so that they $1million could be released to him. It started with a Facebook contact and went to emails. They even had a website for a fake bank account that required a login, which the scammers provided. When you log-in it shows you an account balance of over $1million. My wife and I got wind of it before any money was lost.

2) I was targeted on a facebook scam where I won $500K and was requested to send money to a USA person/address for the processing. I kept them going for quite some time "If I want the check to come EVEN FASTER, is there an option that I can pay more for the expedited processing?" I even filled out a fake Western Union Receipt, I also called them via facebook messenger.

In both cases, they pretended to be old white ladies and started going on about God and Jesus. in instance #2 I asked if was OK that I'm not Catholic to still get the money and told them I am surprised Facebook started becoming so religious. Thankfully it was not an issue

Here are some Scambaiters who like to fuck with the scammers as I do https://www.419eater.com/