Scam No More a.k.a Gerak Khas The Movie 3

I'll start today's blog by attaching some email excerpts between me and a scammer who cheated me last Friday. My conversation was in blue and the scammer's in red.

-----Original Message-----
me wrote:
Hi,I pm you in nogold forum. Your offer still valid? Let me know

Regards,

-----Original Message-----
From: Intan Camelia Nuzrad [mailto:mrsmrimran@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:07 AM
To: me
Subject: Re: Buying E-gold

yes, 3.70 because i am selling the profit... you interested?

me wrote:

yes...tell me how to proceed

-----Original Message-----
From: Intan Camelia Nuzrad [mailto:mrsmrimran@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:38 AM
To: me
Subject: RE: Buying E-gold

You can deposit to Maybank accountMohd Roslan bin Md Isa 162209941080. Please paste your transaction in email... how much would u buy?

me wrote:
how much is available...btw can I have your contact no pls.

-----Original Message-----
From: Intan Camelia Nuzrad [mailto:mrsmrimran@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:58 AM
To: me
Subject: RE: Buying E-gold

i have USD570... but willing to sell usd500.... call me at 019-3213372

That was how it started. Then some calls were made and the following converstion follows:

me wrote:
ok as spoken I will buy USD 500 of egold....total RM payable is 1,850

my egold account no: xxxxxx
my egold username: xxxxx

I will transfer the money shortly and will sms u. Tks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Intan Camelia Nuzrad [mailto:mrsmrimran@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:36 AM
To: me
Subject: RE: Buying E-gold

i have to check first ok... THANKS...

Guess what happened after that! Tried to call but got the message that the no is not reachable. I tried to be calm and went for Friday's prayer. Went back to the office at about 2.30 and tried calling again. Got the same message. Started to smell something fishy and went thru the email conversation. Suddenly I realized how stupid I was. The real/genuine owner of the email is mrmrsimran...this guy tricked me by using mrsmrimran instead. Cunning bastard!

So there goes my RM1,850! Went home a bit frustrated and reluctantly drag myself to play futsal that nite. After the game we chit chatted and being me I just had to tell everybody about it. Luckily one of my buddy told me that he has somebody who can trace the details of the account holders. He emailed me the details on Saturday (i/c, phone and address).

That night I had to become Inspector Gadget. Called another buddy who lives nearby the scammer address and we decided to go to the scammer's house. Guess what? Based on the address, the scammer lives on Jln. Dahlia but when we reached there, there were Jalan Dahlia 1 to Jalan Dahlia 11! And all the 11 Jalans has the scammer's house number. Great! We spent almost 2 hours looking for the right house but to no avail. Tried to call the fixed line provided but no one is answering. I checked with Telekom and found out that the number was registered under a Company. Hmmm...at least I found some lead. Will call again on Monday.

Monday morning. Dialled the number again and to my delight somebody answered the phone.
"Hello, can I speak to Mohd Roslan?'' Just a moment pls...was the reply. Ah ha gotcha. But to my surprise, the voice at the other end didn't sound that familiar...after a few minutes of interrogation I found out that this Roslan guy was just acting as a 3rd party to the actual scammer. I went on and pressured this guy, telling him I'll make a police report against him because as far as the police is concerned he was the account holder of that transaction. He pleaded to me not to lodge a report and will ask the actual scammer to refund my money. I gave him 12 p.m. deadline.

Subsequently I received this email:

-----Original Message-----
From: Intan Camelia Nuzrad [mailto:mrmrimran@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 9:49 AM
To: me
Subject: RE: Buying E-gold

sorry beb... aku tak niat nak scam ko sebenarnya... cuma aku terdesak sket nak pakai duit... so ko boleh tolong aku tak?skrg ni duit tu dah ter"invest" dalam program hyip kawan aku...budak melayu...dia confirm tak scam... website dia... http://www.prestigehyip.com ko boleh monitor...nanti aku akan pulangkan dengan profit sekali... dalam masa seminggu...boleh tak? roslan tu kawan aku.... aku pun penah kene scam usd1500 gak...tapi report polis memang tak layan laa... tapi kalau ko nak report gak.... memang duit tu skrg dalam investment...dan aku akan pulangkan beserta 20% profits...tolong reply

Damn. I'm amazed with this guy. This was my reply:

-----Original Message-----
From: me
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 10:12 AM
To: 'Intan Camelia Nuzrad
Subject: RE: Buying E-gold

ohh dah mcm ni baru ko nak reply...ko jgn nak mengada2...uncle aku keja kat cawangan jenayah perdagangan Bkt Aman...so kalau aku report si Roslan & ko sekali kena. bak balik duit aku RM1,850 ...end of story aku bagi ko masa sampai 12 p.m. Ko bagi aku profit 100% pun aku tak nak!!!

Aku tau ko pun pakai acc. Suryani Edris kan...aku dah ada semua detail minah ni i/c no, phone and address. So kalau ko tak nak perkara ni babitkan org lain baik ko pulangkan balik duit aku...ingat deadline 12 p.m.

About 11 a.m. I received a SMS from Roslan asking me to check my account. To my relieve, a total of RM1,800 was deposited back to my account. But still tak puas hati. Short RM50. Its not about the money, its about the principle. I guess that's the price I have to pay for this lesson!

I will go all the way to nail this scammer. There are a few others who got scammed by the same guy and based on the various acc. no. used. I'll help them to track down the owner who are related to this guy. Watch out (in case u are reading this)...Crime doesn't pay!

Signing off at 11.30 p.m.