Owner of Telok Blangah Towers #05-105

In the year 2012, I will be the proud owner of a flat in Telok Blangah Towers! Fabulous place it is, close to town, vivocity, mrt, mount faber and all. Only little glitch i that i may not have the sea view that I wanted, as I stay on the 5th floor. But hell to that! Such an excellent location, it's a rare find for a new flat!

How did i manage to procure such a fabulous gem in the competitive new flats market? Py and I got it from the half yearly sale! There was 10053 applicants for this HDB scheme and we managed to get queue number 24!

Lady luck shines on me

Oh, and my girlfriend who is a flawless diamond dredged from a population of 2 million Singaporeans may be getting married with me, depending on her whims. She better, cos I got 2000$ option fee with the HDB which will be forfeited should she screw me up royally :).

Scammers part 4

To recap: I decided to reply to a con man masquerading as a victim to have some fun with them. I pretended to be a guy hard up for cash to pay for hospital bills as my grandmother is in hospital getting chemotherapy (my real grandmas are dead so I'm not cursing them).

Any way, these bastards replied. Look below.

From: c_dept@live.comTo: tieky@hotmail.comSubject: Re: Payment in ProgressDate: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:34 +0200
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Hello Ibrahim,

I am sorry for your mother's health. May be, this your winning prize is a pavement for you to bring her life back to normal.
Regarding processing fee, please, note that it is not possible to deduct it from your winning prize. This is because your winning prize is insured to the full value and no deduction is allowed on it.
In the lottery draw of last year, it was allowed to make deduction of charges from the winning fund but there were some discripancies which occured in the bank deduction and which various winners complained that they did not get their accurate winning amount as it ought to be. Because of the complaints from the winners, the payment board here decided to insure all winning prize so that it can be received in lump sum by the winners and this is in order to avoid tampering. So, all winners are required to pay the processing fee before their winning prize is processed.Therefore, I advise that you try to find a way to urgently send the processing fee to enable us process and transfer your winning prize before the scheduled deadline.

If you can send your identity detail later, that will be alright and we can start processing your prize as soon as you send the processing fee.

Note that the attached documents with PDF file is alright and not damaged by any virus. You only need to down-load it with the aid of acrobat reader installed in your PC.


I wait for your response. Dr. Briggs

This bastard has no conscience. He intends to scam my hospital money. Anyway, the story still goes on.

I told him because of my grandma's condition, I can't cough up any money. I'm trying to get a loan now. I asked "Dr. Briggs" if I could an extension.

He says. Of course. Heh, now who would reject free money into your account even if it comes late.

I'm goig to try my luck a little here. I'm telling him that I secured a loan but I need some money for admin fee, and if he'll be nice to lend me. See my mail below ;

Dear Dr. Briggs,

I have applied for a loan of $10, 000 ( 3300 pounds) with a private company here in Singapore. However, they require me to deposit into their account a sum of $100 (33 pounds) for adminstrative purposes and to open an account with them before they would loan me the money. Due to hospital bills, I have no spare cash now, but my loan will be approved if I pay for the admin fee.

I have tried to ask for help but no one is able to spare me any cash. I understand that your company will not be able to foot the admin bill of 855 pounds, but if you can help me settle the admin fee for my loan I will be able to send you the money (855 pounds) plus the admin fee for loan very quickly.

Thank you for your help!

Ali Ibrahim

Well let's see if his scam works on him or not. If I can pull this off, I'll be the greatest con artist in the world! Heh.

Scammer: Part 3

Well, these guys started asking for money already. It's a small sum now. For processing fee. Assholes.

From: c_dept@live.com
To: tieky@hotmail.com
Subject: Re:Payment in Progress
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:13:28 +0200

Attn: Ali Ibrahim,

I have received your mail with regards to your won lottery prize. Your file is now with us and your payment is going through normal validation and verification process. Your payment will be released within the next 72 hours if you urgently comply with the below information:

You are therefore, advised to provide the following requirements to enable us complete the process for your fund transfer:

1. COPY OF YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE OR YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD( SCAN AND ATTACH THE COPY THROUGH THIS EMAIL)

2. THE SUM OF ₤855 PROCESSING FEE.(EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE BRITISH POUNDS)

3.YOU ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO SEND TO US YOUR FULL ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR WINNING FUND.
As soon as you provide the above requirements, our in house attorney will do all the needful and forward your payment file to the bank for transfer of the fund to your bank.Note that your ₤1000,000.00 was insured to the real value and as such cannot be deducted from. This is in accordance with article 11 subsection 213 of the Uk lottery commission gaming regulation as adopted on 8 May 1996 and amended on the 11 October 1996 by United Kingdom Parliament. This is to protect our clients and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

So, you have to send the fee of ₤855.00.british pounds through western union transfer with the information of the head of our revenue unit as below:
NAME: MORRIS ANDERSON
ADDRESS: 61 SOUTHAMPTON ROW, BLOOMSBURY
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
When you make the transfer, send to me the reference number for the claim of the money here.

You can call me on my direct number: +447045705137 if you need any further clarification.
Find in the attachment copy of your winning/insurance certificate.
Dr. John Briggs

I decided to see if these scammers have any semblence of a conscience, so I told them the prize money is for my grandmother's chemotherapy. Let's see if they'll go soft and drop me as their target.

Dear Dr. Briggs,

Great to hear from you again! How is my prize money coming along? It's safe with you I hope. You really saved my life you know, with this prize you are going to send to me. My grandmother was diagnosed with cervical cancer and needed a lot of money for chemotherapy, or her chances of survival will be slim. Now I am able to provide for her the treatment, and thanks to you, she will get better! Peace be upon you.

I am unable to provide you with rthe driver's licence or identity card now because I lost my wallet. Is it ok that I send it to you at a later date? That will be about 1 week from now, I have already applied for a new card. You can start your processing now, as you have all my details.

For the sum of 855 pounds, can you deduct it from my prize? That will be much easier. that means I will receive 999145 pounds. My accound number is 076-654687-9 Posb Savings. You can wire the money through. Please hurry though, as I urgently need the money for my grandmother's hospital bills...

By the way, I am unable to open the PDF documents that you have attached to me, as it said the copies are damaged. Can you send me another copy?

Thank you!

Yours sincerely,

Ali

Scammers: Part 2

So, These scammers replied me. Of course. I'm going to send them money ( that's what they think).

INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS DEPT, 61-70 SOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON , UK

TEL+44 70111 36579

From: Dr John Briggs

To:Winner,

You are therefore required to send to us the following details without delay

YOUR FULL NAME :

YOUR COMPANY NAME:

FULL ADDRESS:

TEL:

FAX:

AGE:

SEX:

CITY:

ZIP CODE:

COUNTRY:

NATIONALITY:

OCCUPATION:

COMPANY NAME(IF ANY):

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF INDIVIDUAL/COMPANY:
..................................................................................................
.................................................................................................
..................................................................................................

Dr John Briggs (Claim Agent)
NATASHA DAVIES (Financier Secretary


And I gave them my details (fake).

INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS DEPT, 61-70 SOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON , UK

TEL+44 70111 36579

From: Dr John Briggs

To:Winner,

You are therefore required to send to us the following details without delay

YOUR FULL NAME : Ali Ibrahim bin Effendi

YOUR COMPANY NAME: Lian Beng Pte. Ltd.

FULL ADDRESS: Address: Blk 254, Cook Street, #3-28 Singapore 243599

TEL: 63451325

FAX: -

AGE: 29

SEX: Male

CITY: Singapore

ZIP CODE: 243599

COUNTRY: Singapore

NATIONALITY: Singaporean

OCCUPATION: Supply & Logistics supervisor

COMPANY NAME(IF ANY): Lian Beng Pte. Ltd.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF INDIVIDUAL/COMPANY:
.I am a person who believe in fate, and fate has saw it fit to give me fortune! Thank you again for the prize!.................................................................................................
.................................................................................................
..................................................................................................

Dr John Briggs (Claim Agent)
NATASHA DAVIES (Financier Secretary

Scammers

I always get mails from con artists telling me that I have won shit loads of money because of my e mail and stuff. Usually, I'll reply them 'fuck you assholes' or ' may your kids be borne with no assholes'. I got another mail again a few days ago, so I decided to have some fun with this asshole. I decided to be a 'victim'.

Let me show you this asshole's (the con man) mail. Look, they even put the motto as fighting poverty. You mean your own poverty right?!?!? Asshole.

MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE

AWARD DEPARTMENT< /I>, UK INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,

Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.

REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937

BATCH NO: 2005SEPTL#22

WINNER NO: 5

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER : UNITED KINGDOM

DEAR WINNER,

UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTER Y CONDUCTED IN ITALY BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON

YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER S/N-00168 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 887-13-865-37-10-83, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BE EN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF ₤1,000,000 (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF ₤25,000,000 ,POUNDS SHARED AMONG THE TWENTY-FIVE (25) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY YAHOO MAIL THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL "E-MAIL" PROMOTIONS PROGRAM, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR PROMINENT MS -WORD USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND ALLEVIATE POVERTY WORLDWIDE. YOUR FUND HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 AND WILL BE READY FOR TRANSFER. IT WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO YOU BY YOUR CLAIM AGENT IN CHARGE OF YOUR ZONE (DR JOHN BRIGGS ). YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER VIA EMAIL AND PHONE. ALSO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AS HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.

AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE

MSW/FEB/XX06 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT.

PRIZE CLAIM

CLAIMS AGENT OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:

DR.JOHN BRIGGS

CLAIMS AGENT

TEL:+44 701 113 6579

TEL:+44 703 185 0265

TEL:+44 704 570 5137

EMAIL:ukprocessing66@live.com

REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALL FUNDS NOT CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE THE FIXED DATE WILL BE RETURED AS UNCLAIMED AND DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION IN AFRICA .

NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS AND YOUR SECURITY CODE OF MSW/FEB/XX06 IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER.

CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF UK LOTTERY BOARD TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS THIS YEAR. CONGRATULATION TO YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PRO MOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM. OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO THE UK LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL AND ALL SPONSORING BODIES FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD.

SINCERELY,

Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith

(Co-coordinator). (Secretary)

The dipshit claim agent even calls himself a 'doctor'. This mail is so full of shit I can't understand why people will still be scammed by such crap. But oh well, many people believe in 'hope' too much I guess.

Anyway, I sent them a reply, with a total cooked up identity of course.

Dear Mr. Briggs,

I won!!! Thank you for selecting me as your receipant of this amazing amount of prize money!

My security code is MSW/FEB/XX06

My reference number and winner number is:

REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937

BATCH NO: 2005SEPTL#22

WINNER NO: 5

My name is Ali Ibrahim bin Effendi. I am from Singapore. My details are written below

Name : Ali Ibrahim bin Effendi

Address: Blk 254, Cook Street, #3-28 Singapore 243599

To see what's above, highlight it.

Please tell me how to g about to collect the prize.

I called myself Ali. Heh heh. No offence to malay guys, but I just wanted a whole new different identity. Next time I'll be a Vietnamese.

see my next post for more updates on the scam game!

damn

Still the same.

Nothing's much changed, except I've been interested in stocks and shares.

Heard anou this Sunshine Empire a few months ago, and decided to do a bit of research on it. Realised that it is a scam. It has a " business model" that was named after Charles Ponzi. POnzi was a scam artist in the 1920's who cheated 10000 people in Boston, USA.

I hope that the CAD will shut this company down, and not let anymore people get cheated. Yes, of course there are some who joined in early made some money out of it, but at the end of the day, this business model is unsustainable and the bosses of sunshine empire knows it. Yet, he still goes on with it. Unethical.

Quiet

It's a quiet night for a little post.

I have Dean Martin's swing to accompany me, but the night's a tad bit too warm to sip some exquisite whiskey, so I'm going to post a little article today.

Quietness spreads through him as he settles down into his own skin. Turbulence that used to override his mind screams less now. He looks around his silent comfort zone and wonders, that what affected the change in him. Through the open window, he feels a breeze wafting. He peered out through the window. The sky is a clear deep purple, but the city light at the horizon drowned out the stars. Such a shame, he thought. He saw stars filling the skies in the past, atop a mountain. Then, the stars shimmered and twinkled in the cold air. He thinks about the days that brought him to the present. Such sweet memories, and painful experiences.

There was an accident that took away many things from him, but then again, nothing was lost that could not be recovered. There were beautiful days in a land far away, surreal and dreamy. It was like a long holiday he took, not so long ago, yet it feels like a chapter way back in the past. The days now seem more rooted to reality, but still beautiful nonetheless. The surrealism is replaced by a sense of comfort now. Quiet comfort.

He sits in the room, listening to soft country music in silence.

Quiet comfort.

5 am

These days, the life seem to sail smoothly across warm waters. After kicking up a dust in China, things seemed to have settled down remarkably well. Well, nothing much going on these few weeks, as I mentioned, smooth sailing.

Things are not so fine for my third uncle though. He's dead. Pancreatic cancer, nasty stuff. It's the second worst cancer, after liver cancer. The percentage of survival for those afflicted with such a disease is abysmally low; 3%. My uncle fought a hard battle with cancer, going through 4 operations in 6 months, only to succumb to defeat on 17th of August 2007. God rest his soul. I visited him while he was still battling cancer last month. His body was yellow from jaundice and his movement sluggish from fatigue. Yet, he was still able to joke and remain cheerful. Really puts the "happy people remains happy, and sad stays sad, no matter what they go through" theory to the test. My uncle's condition also puts my in perspective. My injured arm seems so minor compared to his illness.

Well, highlight of the day, I saw my friend's hilarious msn nick. It is a sentence describing a lady's wet locks in misty rain. He probably quoted it from a really bad high school essay, I pray to God that the sentence wasn't his original work. The sentence goes " Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze". Beautiful, beautiful, such poetry. Evokes images of a beautiful lady waving her shiny flowing locks in the fresh spring drizzle doesn't it? Heh heh.

Msn nicks does sometimes hint a little about how our friends are doing. There's this guy in my msn that went " it was beautiful while it lasted", and " pain doesn't go away".. Well I assumed he just broke up or something. Haven't got around to asking him though.

It's 5.50 am already. Wow, time flies. Well gotta wake up early for my physiotherapy.

My post destroys the world

Quitting cigarettes makes you fat. I'm serious. I've gained 3 kg since I've quit, and sad to say, I can't seem to stop stuffing my face.

Imagine if this little fact were to leak out; smoking slims you down and quitting it, turns you back into a tubby, how many aspiring anorexic women would be puffing away! Not only that, many fat self conscious men and women will indulge in this habit. My post would ruin millions of lives with carcinogenic tragedies and burdens of medical bills, increase sales of tobacco products, which would in turn increase demand for tobacco, jacking up the price of the crop, resulting in increase in revenue of tobacco farmers. Seeing planting tobacco would be a more lucrative cash crop, other farmers will ditch rice/wheat/barley/maize cultivation and zoom straight into tobacco farming. Unfortunately, this would decrease the supply of available staple food, jacking up the price of that as well. The poor would find it more difficult to get a full meal, resulting in increased cases of malnutrition and worsening famine all around. The price increase in staple food will bring about an inflation, and people will start hoarding food, fearing insufficiency. Supermarkets will be emptied, queues will form to buy food, and very soon money would worth lesser and lesser. All this will spiral into madness. governments would discharge its reserve grains into the market, and call for rationing but to no avail. Disenchanted citizens frustrated by the constant lack of food will protest, demonstrate, loot and pillage whatever establishments still standing. Cities will smoulder from anarchy and molotov cocktails. Charred cars will be left uncleared on the roads. Economy grinds to a stand still. Crime, paranoia and hoplessness will seep into every crevice of the remaining civilisation. Some governments will impose a state of emergency, some governments will be toppled by people who are sick of diplomatic moderate leaders and elect radical hardliners in its stead. Some governments will unite the people with fear, and look for a minority race to pile their blames on. Countries go into wars to usurp each others' rapidly depleting resources. Very soon, countries across the world will take sides. World War breaks out. One side would emerge victorious. Borders and boundaries of countries will change. Ccountries belonging to the fallen side surrender their land and resources. Countries will disappear, or be split. The people slowly regain their senses and reality, they will work to rebuild their life and country. But it will never be the same again.

The very world you know of will disintegrate because of my post. Man, I am destructive.

On a sidenote, I had a great japanese buffet dinner with her to celebrate my accomplishment of staying a full six months in a relationship. I pat myself on the back.