Saturday, November 22, 2008

Apabila cerita bermula

Apabila cerita bermula, bermulalah satu episod baru dalam kehidupanku. Bermulalah langkah utama untuk ku meneruskan kehidupan ku yang penuh warna warninya. Tidak kurang juga denga n kejadian-kejadian yang tidak diingini berlaku. Namun itu semua ketentuan Tuhan.

Perjalanan kehidupanku yang penuh berliku, namun aku tetap yakin, itu semua ketentuan dari Nya. Dugaan untuk kita terus hidup. Allah tidak akan melupakan hamba-hambanya, malah sering mengingatkan hamba-hambanya dengan memberi pelbagai jenis dugaan kepada mereka. Namun kita sebagai hamba-Nya sering terlupa akan kewujudannya di sekeliling kita.

Kali ini Allah duga ku dengan perasaan yang indah, yang ingin ku elak-elakkan selama ini. Keinginan ku untuk berumahtangga dan memilikin anak-anak ku sendiri sememangnya menjadi idaman setiap wanita yang ada di dunia ini. (err... bukan semua...) Tuhan dugaku bukan hanya denan perasaan gembira, tapi juga perasaan ragu, takut dan curiga.

Ku ingin meneruskan kehidupanku seperti yang lalu. Tapi Tuhan sayangkan aku.. mengingatkan aku bahawa aku masih lagi punyai tanggungjawab untuk-Nya. Jadi Tuhan bagiku dugaan untuk sedar bahawa kaki ku masih berpijak di bumi yang nyata.

Faizharris, terima kasih kerana hadir dalam hidupku....

Friday, November 7, 2008

Online Dating Services

I was tempted at first, about this online dating services. The idea of meeting new people and see how they are, makes me want to seek more friends online. Until one day, I knew this one particular guys. One thing about the net, I will never trust what I see or hear until I have all the evidence in my hand.

So, this thing happens to me. I met this guy, who claims from London. His name is Robert George, who works in construction of chemical factory. He claims that he's managing his father's factory in London. When I asked what's the factory name, he left me with Dynamic Investment Limited. I try to google the name, but there's no hard evidence of this factory being exist. But knowing that he calls me most of the time, I was playing along with the game. But me, being the baby sister of police officer from crime division, notice that his voice was not entirely British. See, I was with Nunez, and still am, know how a British talks like. But his accent was not very British. And he claims that his mother was from Chile and his father from London.

Things went fine at first, since I dont really put my seriousness in this relationship. Never does... Until this one fine day, he asked for my address, which I stupidly gave him. The next thing I know, he's sending over a laptop and in secret, cash of 5 figures foreign currency. Then I started to think, this is a scam. No one would ever send a money in a parcel, since there is wire transfer services available.

I was thinking of the negative most of the time. With the parcel bill looks so suspicious...
They eventually use a third person to send over the parcel. His name stated there is Davis Morrison. Which is entirely a lie. And the best thing was that Robert called me the night before the parcel is suppose to arrive. 3 hours later, this Davis Morrison called me. And you know what, they both have the same voice. But i didn't get a chance to make a background check on Davis Morrison since it was late. What I remember was that he said that the parcel is still with the custom in KLIA. He'll call me as soon as he gets news from the custom.

In the morning, he call me up again saying that the parcel is still with the custom and i have to pay RM3500 for the clearance fee on the custom side. There and then, i realize that this was all a lie. Luckily I knew it and being suspicious about everything from the very beginning. I only said okay to everything that he said. He even asked a lady to talk to me, pretending her as the custom officer. My mistake was, i didn't ask for her name and her designation. But i okayed to most of what they said. But i never agreed on paying or doing anything. He sent me the details of the account from that particular person that supposingly the custom officer.

I immediately called up my uncle who's husband and wife working with the Malaysian Royal Custom (Kastam DiRaja Malaysia) My uncle is in the preventive department. So I bet that he knew better about this. Told him about the story, and he said there is no such thing of 'clearance fee'. The only thing that a receiver have to pay is the duty fee that only applies to dutied products. He advice me not to fall into this situation. But he was not happy with someone using Malaysian Royal Custom for doing this kind of scam.

I delayed the action until Davis Morrison gets very impatient. We fought on the phone, on arguing about the paying part. I asked him to ask Mr Robert George to pay for the fee's but he knew there and then, that Mr Robert George went to Romania, which a middle person shouldn't know about it. He even mention the term money laundering in our conversation for not be able to pay for the so called 'clearance fee'. I nearly yelled at him for not being understand at my situation until my cousin cool me off.

He called me a few time that day, but I didn't want to answer as my boiling level is still high. Until Saturday afternoon, I answer his call calmly. He was furious at first, of me not able to pay for the clearance fee. He said that he won't be able to leave Malaysia unless the parcel is already with me. I told him to leave it with the custom. He said that he will leave all the details about me to the custom. He even blackmailing me saying that the custom will find me if they found out about the content of the parcel under money laundering charges. I calmly said, its ok... i filed a police report already. He immediately changed his tone and disconnect the phone call. Then and there we knew that it was all a scam.

So, my advice, girls, guys, pakcik, makcik, auntie, uncles, brothers & sisters... please be careful of money laundering syndicate. We wouldn't know about this kind of thing happens to us, unless you already knew that you made a wrong move. So, I would hope for this Robert George or Davis Morrison to be charge wisely for money laundering and scam! Please, help us all to stop this kind of money laundering. I mean, who would give away such a huge amount freely to us?? Think about it!!!