"Friend" who asked me for money turned out to be a scammer
Anonymous | 27 Jun 2022
A guy from this number 89285173 called and asked me to guess who he was. I randomly answered him with my colleague's name "Marcus?" and he went "ya lah, you cannot recognise my voice meh?". I was sceptical because he has this Malaysian accent that my colleague doesn't have. He claimed "I having cold so I sound different". So this "Marcus" asked me not to contact his previous number anymore as he already cancelled it, to only contact him via the new number. He called one day later and told me that the bank of his credit card needed more processing time to transfer his money to his new account, requesting for $5.9k. He claimed will return me in the afternoon. I told him I do not have that much of money with me and he started to ask for $1k, or any amount I have with me.
Please contact your friend immediately if you receive such call to verify. Do not be in a hurry to lend anyone money!