Social Media Fraud Alert!! (Part 2)

Have you read Part 1? If not, please read it before you continue with Part 2.

If you're done let's continue...

On the same evening as I was on my way home, a mutual friend and also my ex-colleague, called me to ask if I knew this person whom I recently added as a friend on my Facebook. I went on to ask her if she sent him a friend request first (as he claimed in the text in Part 1) or vice versa. She confirmed that he sent her a friend request first and she accepted seeing they had mutual friends as well. She even told me the he tried to call her twice the night before but she did not answer the call. I told her that he was a scam and asked her to unfriend him. By this time I was really determined to expose him on my blog.

I wanted to check if the fish was still on the hook after all that geography and musical scare... so I sent him a test message...

The fish is still on the hook!

Right after this part of the text message, I opened my laptop and started my search for the real owner of that face because I'm 100% sure the face belonged to someone else. I did a search on Google Images using his profile picture...

The ever dependable Mr Google came back with some results and when I checked each search result, I found a LinkedIn profile...

I continued my search to see if this face really belonged to this Kenneth Ang... I went back to Facebook to search for a Kenneth Ang and I found him! The face REALLY belonged to this Kenneth Ang, who is also the Founder of the New Shanghai Group.

While going through his FB profile, I noticed that this Kenneth Ang and I have a mutual friend. So I texted this friend of mine to validate his identity and he confirmed that this Kenneth Ang was the real McCoy. Since he was such a successful businessman, I looked him up on YouTube too.

Let me present to you the owner of that handsome face, Mr Kenneth Ang:

I also found out from my friend that this was not the first time his face was being used by scammers. In fact, apart from the profile I showed you in Part 1, this unfortunate guy's face had been used MANY times...

So, people... please check your Facebook account again and see if you have any one of the above in your Friends List. If you do, I'm sure you know what to do. I'm not sure if the person behind all these fake profiles are the same or a syndicate. Please be very careful and do not accept Friend Requests from strangers... even if you have mutual friends. It would be like giving you house keys to a thief.

And for you Mr Kenneth Ang (if you're reading this), I would suggest you lock your Facebook account and confine it within the view of your family and friends to avoid further damage to your handsome face.

The story didn't end there... the episode continued the next day...

By this time, I already know the real owner of that Profile Photo. And if you noticed, his command in English has changed too. After some casual talk, I decided to throw him the carrot...

Whoah... Talk about desperate!! That escalated fast. I've heard of love at first sight... But love at first text? Seriously?? Now wait for it....

THERE!! The key sentence appeared! Did you see it? "Am planning to invest in Asian country" part? Yup... it's all about the $$$. Really... there is NO SUCH THING as Love in First Text. If a lady is easily moved by those sweet words, she would have fallen for his trap. I'm sure it would have progressed to him asking to bank in money into his account.

So ladies... once again I would like to stress my point to you about befriending strangers... especially the ones with handsome/pretty faces. These scammers will always start by being friendly, then caring, then sweet and so on. If you're lonely or emotionally wounded, please make friends with people around you and talk to your family. Please don't turn to social media for a solution to your problem. There are many bad people out there!

On a side note... while I was having the above chat with scammer number 1, a second contestant came in...

To protect my mutual friend's identity, I had to delete out her name. I texted my friend to check if she knew this person. She told me that he was a friend's friend and asked me to ignore this request because he is indeed a scam.

Real people with pretty faces, successful and rich will never send random Friend Request to people they do not know nor seen before!

The conversation ended there when I came home to post Part 1. As I was drafting this Part 2, I texted him to see if he would respond. If I didn't get any response from him, then I'm pretty sure that he's aware of my post.

One and a half hour later... he responded. Let's see if he is really dumb enough for me to have a Part 3 to this story.

Thanks for your time to read this. Please help me to share it with your friends to warn as many people as we can.

Social Media Fraud Alert!! (Part 1)

The purpose of my post is to warn people about a fraud that I have recently encountered. However, I think he is the unlucky one to have picked the wrong person... ME!

On Tuesday (18 April 2017) morning, I received an FB Friend Request from a stranger. And when I receive such requests I would usually click into his profile to see more details and it looked like this...

I also noticed that he had common friends with me, a few of my ex-colleagues. I usually do not accept people I don't know nor seen before into my Facebook. This time I decided to accept because I saw Incheon, Korea, and I was telling my friend that maybe I could practice my Korean language with him. People... don't be easily deceived by their profile picture. Real people with face like this don't need to do random FB Friend Requests okay.

Immediately after I accepted his Friend Request, he sent me messages via the FB Messenger

Till this point I really thought he wanted to be friends and I was disappointed that I wouldn't be able to brush up my Korean after all... And so the messaging for that day continued like this...

Still sounded dodgy so I did not let my guards down for even a moment. I just wanted to see how far this goes. When I got home after work that day, I even showed my husband the whole chat conversation... so in case some of you are wondering... Yes, my husband is fully aware about this!

Then next day came... the messaging started again.

Whoah... when he asked for my Whatsapp number, I really did hesitate for a long time. But I wanted to reel him in to see what he's got in his little back of tricks... so I gave him my number. (Sorry... I had to blur out my number here.)

And just as expected, whatsapp messages from him came in immediateley.

I'm impressed... he even made it looks legit by using a UK phone number. All my answers to him are true and not made up but was very careful with what I say.

The next day, whatsapp messages came in again like clockwork...

I even included photos to make him think that I'm really interested in this whole conversation with him.

Later that day, the messaging continued...

Wow... up till now, he really sounded like a real caring guy. Sad to say but some girls or ladies could have been easily drawn in with all that attention. Check the "Dear"s and the "Angel"s that he's been using. Those were really my goosebumps moments.

Now the next day was a more exciting day coz you could see the London Bridge Falling Down 😜

Jeng... jeng... jeng.... And so the song begins...

Woohoo!! You're the only one I care for? Because I want your happiness? At that time, I was having lunch with my girl friends and we were having a ball reading this!

Now be ready for the next part... if you're not good with geography, I suggest you have Googlemaps on the standby...

By this time, we were laughing our asses off!! OMG... he didn't do his homework!! So, people.... please don't trust people blindly. Go do some research and the easiest way is to ask Mr Google!!

Then all of a sudden, he announced that he have closed his FB account...

And when I tried to go deeper, he said he had to go take a shower... We translate it as... he need to go do his homework about Musicals.

And by the way, I checked using my FB account, he seemed as though he really closed his FB account. But he actually didn't coz he's still there when we used another FB account to look him up. I think he just blocked me. 😂😂

That's all for Part 1... I'll continue Part 2 tomorrow. Yes... there's more to this. So, stay tuned!