Fraud

ENGINEER26
By ENGINEER26

Dear all today i received an miss call from this number 00923067049439 on my QTEL number so as i belong to pakistan and this code 0092 is of pakistan so thought that may be some one from my friend or family wants to talk to me thats why he has given me miss call as i can call them back so i call back on this number and when i talk to him he told me that sir u have won 100000 Riyals thorugh an lucky draw and this is an joint venture of four companies QTEL.ETISALAT,MOBILINK and one saudi company he was so exited and he gave me one number which was the same as it was given on my sim and he was so exited he said please note down ur file number ,lucky draw number and he said that where ru and i said im in ras laffan so he said please go to doha bank branch in ras laffan and collect ur cheque of 100000 than he asked me that what is ur salary (here the doubt came in my mind that this is an scam but as i decided to go thorugh the clomax i replied his all questions allthough i was 100 sure that he is making me fool) but i did not show my feeling and i told him wrong figure than he said that he is working in QTEL office in doha near national and his salary is 16000 ( actually he was trying to make me realize that he is in doha and this international number ) finally he said to me that call me after one hour when an hour passed i did not called him back than he started giving me missed calls so finally i called him than he said that to collect the cheque u have to pay 2150 QR and he told me to come to doha bank al saad branch after two hours so when two hours passed i again he gave me missed call an i called him that i cant come to al saad is it possible that u send ur repreentative to alkhore as i live in alkhore he agreed and said that pls come to doha bank in alkhore o when i reached there i called him he said do one thing go to inside the bank they will give u my details and on the same name send 2150 through western union and give me the MTCN number than u can collect the cheque now it was my turn i started ............................. and he cut off the phone

SO PLS PLS PLS BE AWARE OF THESE ............................................................................................... now they have started this thing in qatar also
shame on these .......................

By ghazalz• 14 Apr 2011 20:02
ghazalz

experience teaches at the cost of mistakes...

By klmpk111• 14 Apr 2011 19:00
klmpk111

I just lost 2200 today I just believe and loss my money, what should I do now

By anonymous• 14 Feb 2011 12:29
anonymous

ok guys, regarding the data being leaked out, these fraudsters dont tell you the exact Serial number of your Sim.

The fact is that all Qtel SIM serial numbers are of 19 digits and start with 89974. He just gives you those first 5 digits and tells you to validate it. Obviously it will match.

By SABISH BABU• 14 Feb 2011 11:56
SABISH BABU

I have such experience of this kind asking for the Cheque courier charges to deposit in their account.

I just inform them to get the cash deducted from my lucky draw amount and sent me cheque for the balance amount only.

By baldrick2dogs• 14 Feb 2011 07:32
baldrick2dogs

Being gong on forever. Good Muslims scamming their brothers eh!?!?!?

BTW, wait till you get the phone bill. I believe it's a premium call too!

By anonymous• 14 Feb 2011 07:12
anonymous

well..it is obvious from the statements made in the above topic....that details of Q-Tel customers are not in safe hands as the data is leaked out by employee...for some monetary gains...are they not being paid well?????????

By anonymous• 14 Feb 2011 01:24
anonymous

very bad experience!!!

it happening in Doha from long time ago. But in Doha, people are very strict/ hard to send money to some one whom they don't know. For that reason they save themselves from these types of spams. I also heard same thing from one of my known person, but the caller was from UAE. They followed the same method- using the sim card secret number.

So, people beaware of these cheater, sometimes you may fall on these types of incident!!

By anonymous• 13 Feb 2011 21:43
anonymous

last time i heard from a Filipina to transfer money to her account for watching her webcam.

By ENGINEER26• 13 Feb 2011 21:42
ENGINEER26

from where they are getting the details of sim card like the sim card number which is written on the back of sim

By Hawk10• 13 Feb 2011 21:39
Hawk10

Last year the same case happened to me also, telling that I won 100,000 Dollars. Once I start asking him details and finally he told me to give him the secret number of QR 100 HALA Card. I told him get lost and since then didn't happen to me again.

By rEzyz• 13 Feb 2011 20:49
rEzyz

i had same incident sometime back, but i threatened of reporting them to police & till n0w peace ;)

By tommytom• 13 Feb 2011 20:45
tommytom

yeah this happens a lot in dubai too...

By ghazalz• 13 Feb 2011 20:25
ghazalz

Yeah saeedkan, the caller tried hard but his bad luck ;)

By ENGINEER26• 13 Feb 2011 20:07
ENGINEER26

thx what do u do brother

By ENGINEER26• 13 Feb 2011 20:05
ENGINEER26

he is not match fixer he is fraud

By ghazalz• 13 Feb 2011 20:00
ghazalz

Yeah...last year they attempted to many as well:)

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