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Online Purchase Scam at Carousell

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Scam Details

Recently, I have been trying to seek some old furniture on the carousell.
Rather to my surprise, the responses I received were quite good. The responses were mostly from different usernames, short email asking like they agreed to buy and asked how to view the item. I provided the condo name (w/o unit number to be cautious) and asked him to call when reached. The person did not turn up at the meeting time. Guess that was how my phone got into hands of stranger. Next working day(5/11/2018) and during hour, I received a local number with SGP international code (while I am in Singapore) . The number was +65 62567574. It was strange. I answered. It was a voice machine claiming I have a parcel from Singpost and ask me to press ‘2’ ( this is the only option available). A person with strong Chinese accent answered, and asked for my name and my NRIC number. Getting already suspicious, I tried to verify him by asking what is singpost address. He could only tell me ‘Eunos Number 8’ in Chinese. I did not relent. After a few times that he could not provide me a satisfactory reply. He hanged up. I then call back the number. It was a singtel announcement indicating the number was actually not in used.

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