Gel from Badoo.com ask for helping wire transfer money from Malaysia

[Asia1]

Hi all, recently registered in Badoo and talked to a girl, she claim she was born and raised from Katong in Singapore, and now living in Australia but doing Antiques business in Malaysia, and asks me help for money wire transfer from Malaysia to SG my account, and seems dont know that the the bank will need to charge some amounts from the wire transfered money.

BTW we never meet face to face before, and just chat in yahoo for several days, and she says she trust me and want to wire transfer $$ from Malaysia to my acct in SG, and then of course I will help to transfer to her again, wired??

Any one encountered this before? is it a new type of scam ? dont know any risks here if I just do the transfer. of course she want my bank account details so that she can do wire transfer of the $$ from Malaysia to my account here

[matlab]

What's her reason for doing so?

There could be a possibility that she's using your account for temporary "storage". You could be charge for corruption if there's anything wrong and you might become the next news in Sg

[Happy555]

Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

[wally888]

Bro, dunn do it coz its money laundering. Someone got caught before so its illegal!

[Presidental]

Originally Posted by Asia1

Hi all, recently registered in Badoo and talked to a girl, she claim she was born and raised from Katong in Singapore, and now living in Australia but doing Antiques business in Malaysia, and asks me help for money wire transfer from Malaysia to SG my account, and seems dont know that the the bank will need to charge some amounts from the wire transfered money.

BTW we never meet face to face before, and just chat in yahoo for several days, and she says she trust me and want to wire transfer $$ from Malaysia to my acct in SG, and then of course I will help to transfer to her again, wired??

Any one encountered this before? is it a new type of scam ? dont know any risks here if I just do the transfer. of course she want my bank account details so that she can do wire transfer of the $$ from Malaysia to my account here

Easy, give her someone else account which can't be traced to you. Some close guy friend or whoever. Of course he must be agreeable to it.

High chance she will say money stuck somewhere, need legal fees to settle, ask you to wired to some legal firm in HK, taiwan, msia etc.. All the bull shit.

Watched National Geographic before on a documentary on this, few major syndicate in China, HK, Taiwan etc doing this. Every stage also got commission earned by the caller...

Lottery winner also from them, Kidnap scam also, and now this..
Hahaha

Never buy TOTO , will kenna TOTO or not? Go think...

[Asia1]

Originally Posted by Happy555

Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

Thanks bro, I also think it is a scam

Originally Posted by wally888

Bro, dunn do it coz its money laundering. Someone got caught before so its illegal!

really? thanks and of course will not do it

[Asia1]

Originally Posted by Presidental

Easy, give her someone else account which can't be traced to you. Some close guy friend or whoever. Of course he must be agreeable to it.

Cannot la, bro, i dont want to do also dont want to sabo my friend

Originally Posted by Presidental

High chance she will say money stuck somewhere, need legal fees to settle, ask you to wired to some legal firm in HK, taiwan, msia etc.. All the bull shit.

yes, maybe hehe, but i want to cut it.

Seems they want to know my account number and name, dont know if it is realted to the recent DBS/POSB case that someone in Malaysia take $$ from Singapore acct ?

[Asia1]

here is her profile in Badoo http://eu1.badoo.com/0287558764/?r=37.4&p=2

[alan0338]

did u ask how much she going to send u????

[power88]

Bro Asia1...
better take care and dun fall into this trap...
Very obvious is defintely a scam...
a very suspious point is you all never meet before....who know that photo of the gal might aso be false...

[BoinKING]

ask yourself la.. would you trust a person you met online to tt money to them..
once go cannot go back..

who will be so naive and stupid.
anything that involves money should be handled woth extreme skepticism..

[IAmAwesome]

Originally Posted by Happy555

Quite obvious that its a scam bro.

Agreed

[kerjasama]

Two possibilities:

1) If genuine, as brothers have pointed out, use for "temporary" storage. This could be a corruption case, or money laudering. Both are jialat and land in East side of Sillypore.

2) A scam. There are many online scams in many ways. They even use big names like Microsoft, Google, National bodies. But look at the email address - either hotmail, gmail or those ending with Ur/Tk (some other countries other than the original countries.

Just a note - no matter how genuine the offer sounds, no matter real it seems, any money transfer does not need you to pay a fee or a charge upfront. Banks can always deduct any legitimate fees from the amount transferred. So don't be fooled by remitting money first.

Another thing - a new scam offers to pay you cash first for you to deposit in your account (say $10,000) and then ask you to withdraw and pay him $2,000 as commission. He will assure you that it is not a scam, as he pays you first. Don't do it. The money is fake - and if you are caught, you carry the burden. If it clears (at some small branches) you think you are safe? - No, when the money goes to the bank clearing houses, it will be detected and trace back to your account.

Safer to buy lottery ticket! You lose dollars, but win million. (In the scam you lose thousands, and win stress, anxiety and possibly jail).

[ddog]

Sounds like he/she scammed someone else asking him to deposit the money, so deposit to which bank? Yours. so you take the bait while he goes away scott free as you're the direct party between the victim and whatedver transacted between her and the victim fingers to be pointed at you.
Either way who the heck in this world would trust a total stranger besides, why give yourself extra worry, what's in it for you? no point

[acidicavex]

I think confirm money laundering. It a method use to delay tracking by whomever is after them.

By the authority or by the mob it delay tracking them down but it doesn't delay tracking whomever got scam into helping.

A friend working as a admin in a law firm said her boss handling one such case of internet banking laundering. Which involve a few account locally and oversea. The innocent one Thot easy money but end up with visit from police also one more IRAS suspecting him of tax evasion. Long long case the poor fella can almost be declare bankrupt Liao with his lawyer fee piling up.