The issues of victims being scammed has graced the history books ages back. In the previous years where internet and computer is still getting some introduction to the poorly rated scammers world, it’s easy to spot a scammer’s email.

But with the higher technology knowledge given to these Big Time Cheaters, Scammers are getting more creative and daring. Instead of targetting the junk email box, they are now targeting traders, CEOs and Companies in trade lead web portals. This is a major problem to serious sellers and manufacturers.

Ask any businessmen and they will tell you that every business enquiry, even though the quantity is small is still very valuable. And with this knowledge in hand, Scammers have targeted their greedy hands on businesses and companies.

Under the false blanket of another merchant or CEO, they send out a few buying leads to draw in their victims who thought that they are really a serious buyer. After a few days of waiting, they send a reply to the sellers and a series of business related emails is followed. Instead of broken and badly spelled tossed with bad grammatical English, they used a good flow of the language that blinded the seller.

So after the enquiry emails on the product details, the scammer requested a quotation to be drafted C&F their port of call or FOB with a percentage of their commission locked into the price stating that they are just the sourcing agent for a reputable organisation like West African Development Agency. After wasting so much of my seller’s time, they hand over the contact of the so called person in charge of the Organisation.

After agreeing to the terms and conditions of the seller, the buyer scammer then sends out an Purchase Order completed with their letter head and their company stamp. After the seller has issued their invoice along with their banking details, the scammers begin their Gold Digging Operation.

As the seller eagerly awaits for the payment which can be a few days, the scammers then sent a letter to the seller stating that they are not able to transfer the cash out because the seller hasn’t registered itself as a non-ingenious contractor and requested that seller register themselves in order for the payment to be t/t successfully.

They also attached the contact of their so called friend who happens to be an officer in the government agency like NAFDAQ. The impostor will then give full instructions along with a copy of the government form  to be filled up and the banking details for the payment of the registration fee.

Some of the unfortunate sellers will fall for their trap and from what I heard from them, after paying around USD2000, the scammers decided to play the David Copperfield Disappearing Act. After finally realising that they have been conned and scammed, it’s already too late. The scammers have moved to another lot, changed their contact details and moved onto another easy target.

So here is a few tips when dealing with a Scammer:

1) Business deals from poor countries like Nigeria, Benin, Togo and other African Related nations are too good to be true. Most of these scammers are from there. So do your through research on the companies, phone numbers, contact details or whatever you have on them online. By just typing their address and Google them up can give you a list of some related articles on them.

2) Don’t waste money in calling them. If they are real buyers, they would have the courtesy to call you when in doubt and not rely solely on email as a form of conversation only. I do however have met serious buyers online and had a series of emails from them without telephone conversation, so trying not to be biased here.

3) When in doubt in dealing with government agency or organisation of any countries, call up the embassy or consulate of the said country and check out with them on the matter.

4) False report of funds unable to be transferred out. Check out with your bank managers on this issue. Usually there should not be any problem when transferring out the cash in payment for an invoice unless you are doing money laundering which is illegal.

5) Purchase Orders, Forms with official letter heads and such. There are such thing as using Adobe Photoshop to Cut and Paste and Edit a certain picture. Do not be fooled by such fancy attempt.

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To conclude this matter, I have attached a website that victims or soon-to-be-victims of scammers can view and learn from the articles of the old Scammers Game.

I’ve been snapping up photos that consist from the wet dirty areas like the wet market to the warm and comfy place of my kitchen. At least I’m sharing the little bits and pieces which I think is amusing.

And another dosage of Fishy Fish..

And back to the kitchen…

And a dosage of greedy chocolate monster..

And thats the end of the jokes folks!

I didn’t do nothing much during the past few days except snapping a few funny shots and updating my long and dusty neopets.

Yes babes, I do still have a neopets account and its now being used as a killer time. My headphones have decided to crank up on me. I did some operation on my operating theather, my desktop, and had to re-wire and re-solder the whole circuit because the manufacturer had used a cheap type of audio DC cable.

I thought I still had some spare and leftovers of audio cable but after half and hour I found only the wrapper. Drat! So had to resort to old barbaric way since the only cables I’m left are 10mm AC and DC cable, 16mm, 25mm DC cable. So what can I do but so some wire stripping on lose 10mm cable and take a few strands of the 0.5mm copper strands and jump start everything.

After the re-wiring did some testing and the left speaker died on me. After much troubleshooting, found out that the soldering circuit of the etched pcb board of the input was spoilt. So much for soldering like a pro.

What to do? Scrap of the faulty part, did a fast makeover and tested it out again. It works! All speakers work and with much louder volume. But… But since the faulty part was scrapped off, it became a rheostat by itself. Drat! So now have to be contented with an always evolving volume speaker.

Wait til I head to Sim Lim. Then I can resolder the whole circuit and make sure the speakers work properly this time.

I did a few weird and non-profitable things during the weekend. Some of them includes in getting a huge fish and barbecuing it and also entertaining Fishy-Ayu on dough nut making. And all of this will be shown in a step by step Syikin version on DIY boredom.

How to make your own charcoal or fuel if you are stuck without any charcoal. This is for the city dwellers out there.

First, you must have a piece of wood. Make sure its dried wood and not just a pick over the hedges. And also make sure you don’t use Gaharu wood. If you do find one and don’t know what to do with it, pass it to me. I’ll split the profits with you 50/50..

Then you need a Bench saw or a cutting machine. Make sure that you are using the blade for cutting wood and not for metal. Also please take note to keep children away from the machine and you when you cut the wood. Ensure safety at all times and use a pair of goggles if you don’t like having saw dust in your eyes.

After all the cutting and the mountains of saw dust, you can be proud of your DIY firewood. Don’t throw the saw dust away as you may use it as a fire starter. See! Everything is economical and very eco-friendly.

Saudi Arabia will be celebrating the Aidiladha, Raya Haji, today.  To the pilgrims that has answered the call of one of the pillars of Islam, I pray for your safe journey home and may your Haj be accepted by Him.

To the Muslims around the world, well wishes to you and may you have the chance to step into the Masjidil Haram.

There are lots of marketing problems involved when I started my launch of TFT LCD monitors. I knew all of them and I know that things will get even tougher when you are limited on finance and like all business culture, we need to apprehend the problem before it gets way out of my hand.

So to counter one of the problems, I had decided on making an online shop complete with all the necessary payment tools that will be used by shoppers. I’ve already listed the electronic products that will be sold online and even shortlisted the suppliers but to find a shopping cart software that doesn’t crash my system and give me frizzy hair is hard to find.

However a referrer whom I trusted, referred me to this software that can tackle all the punch list I’ve created. Intrigued, I checked it out. Well apart from just being a shopping cart software, they also give out free tips and hints to new-users on creating a good E-commerce software. Since I will be starting small, I decided to see the packages that they have.

Scrolling down their product description, I was surprised that they have Quickbooks integration, an accounting software which I am currently using to manage my company’s account. They also have discount coupon tools which I think will be great if I used it during the holiday seasons.

I would certainly consider this software. To manage every invoices from my Quickbooks without doing plenty of double entries is a score for me. Interested? Click below for more information.

Woohoo!! I finally managed to get the green light to adopt the newborn kittens from my next door neighbour.

I am so happy!

I got three new kittens. Two was originally “ordered” from my neighbour while another one was another one of my act of the good Samaritan. Like the previous cat I adopted years back, I took him in a few secs before he got crushed by a passing dumb truck. Well now I got those 3 and hopefully they are not as rascal as the previous one.. hehehe

So to share some of the weirdness I did over the weekend, check out the pics I took for my lunch yesterday. Made it myself. A combination of beef soup noodle with a little tinge of Japanese touch. Yummy!!

PS: Its not Maggi. I just used instant noodle since mom forgot to buy my favorite Ramen Noodle. Want the recipe? Holler me!

Darn it!

I swear I will make sure the person who is behind this will get its retribution from god. How could they do this evil thing after making use of him? He’s a great guy who always put the needs of others before him. I loved him as how I loved my father.I do not accept the fact the monster that was behind this could do such a thing because the monster’s idiotic son was such a brat.

It gave an earthquake impact to my family. I’m still shaking in anger at the deception. GRR.. Yes I am extremely and highly livid!

Bloody Mary! He’s innocent you Ah-Long Bukit Beruntung! If he really is brought down, I will make sure that the monsters and his son especially is brought down along, down to the pits of hell.

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You mess with him and his family, you mess with me!

Haiz.. Too much anger causes my mind to be darkened. Therefore you have to pardon the language and words which was used earlier.

To his family members, my sincerest and deepest sympathy and regrets to his family members.

The HUNT IS ON! You are warned!

I’m hungry.. Been having weird cravings for sashimi and sushi. I’m salivating at the thought of the delicious Japanese cuisine. Add a huge dose of Wasabi.. Woo! Kick man!

Life is as per normal. Nothing deathly or fatal happened. With the usual monsoon season, everyone had a chance becoming a mer-creature. Instead of using the petrol chugging cars, we now use SAMPAN! Well people in Venice has been using gondolas for centuries as mode of transport so its nothing embarrassing to use SAMPAN as our means of transport.

Just think positively. With the monsoon season, Malaysia can know become SE-Asia Venice! Isn’t it great? No need to spend thousands just to spend on the air tickets, book the hotels and pay and excessive amount to be on the gondolas with the black and white striped man steering the boat when you can do it at your own front lawn!

South East Asia Venice!

Alright.. I know its not funny. Lucky for me I’m situated at Skudai which means its highlands and the highways to KL and Singapore is just 15mins drive away. That doesn’t mean I don’t sympathize the flood victims. I do ok! And I do donate to their cause..

Hmm.. I’m still waiting for my sushi…

Dad’s down with flu, so I’m putting him under containment unit. Strictly no cold drinks, no chocolate, no junkies and no playing in the rain. He has to stick to hot food, drinks and to have his minimum 3hours nap without disturbance but that seems to be a problem since his royal majesty just can’t stay still for 15mins.

But I will make sure he has his nap!

It seems that a good close friend of mine has ventured into this realm and left with an intention to do bodily harm on the next outing with her. It’s not because of my inability to attend her fun outings but the part when she read someone’s comments.

She was livid to find out that I had a special someone without informing her.. hehehe.. Chill Lisa, I will tell you… on your wedding day.. hahaha *dodges a flying StarFish*

Lisa, you are not the only one left in the dark. I’m not sure if Meow Jane also knows.. hehehe..  Oops! I think I need to get a bodyguard for myself. Two women and one hairy scary can cause great damage when pricked. NOW guys.. Relax.. You still love me.. right? hehehe..

Anyway lastnight I watched the disappointing ASEAN Soccer Match between Singapore and Thailand. From the tarnished performance the Young Lions did, it was not surprising that the Thais won. There were a few times when the Thai’s goal was badly defended but the stupid Kitten Strikers was perhaps having some cross-eyed problem that they totally missed in kicking the ball in. My two year old nieces could do better than that!

Then there was the part where the ankles of the Kitten Players didn’t function properly that led to horrible ball passing which was greatly appreciated by the Thais as they took control of the game and made the Young Lions running with their tail in between their legs.

After that teeth gritting horrible match, I have drawn a conclusion about the Young Lions. They need to buck up on their support for their team mates, not to solely rely on Hassan Sani to defend the goal, work out their communication problems, do some serious training on keeping the ball to themselves and practice on their high balls. If they don’t do that, then the Young Lions will just have to be renamed as the Kitten Players.

Disappointing game Singapore!