Trying to sell some stuff in social media and almost got scammed I think. Wanted to use some courier delivery service, and then this supposed courier delivery service wanted me to do real name authentication to “prevent fraud”
Unfortunately I did give them some details but not enough to impersonate me in the bank hotline I hope.
Just wondering: should I report this to the anti-fraud 165 hotline? I saw the online form but it said I still have to go to the police station.
I only have their LINE accounts— I thought I had their cellphone number but they just made the LINE ID be in the format of a number. Considering reverse fishing for information (by pretending im falling for it) but I don’t really want to talk to them further.
(Hope this is OK to post here, I’m don’t know anyone well enough here to ask them on a weekend for this matter.)
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The government is absolutely flooded with both reports of real fraud and the mentally unwell people thinking the world is against them. If a person feels they got scammed, have patience because it’s. Alogistics issue sorting through millions of “cases”, many of which are just crazy people being selfish and/or entitled.
If really getting scammed, jump through the hoops. Jot just for yourself, but to help improve the society we lice in. It’s a group effort. Also, don’t bog down a system with unimportant nonsense.
Not saying you are. But hoping people have a filter and can be pragmatic.
I find reporting scams easy. Investigating them and getting results is insanely diffiicult! Luckily online sellers tend not to be exceptionally smart when scamming people. But bigger companies are sophisticated. I tried to report a big box store here once for label fraud. Their advertisement was made in Taiwan, the brands official tag on the back was from china. This was a TV. The government told me I needed to buy it and they can take action. Which is bullshit. I feel a little shame because I just gave up. Should have pushed harder to advertise the governments clearly retarded response. Anohymously***
I think it was pretty legit, they were at a point to ask me for my ARC id number— in fact they gave me a fake bank employee ID too, even when I never asked for it.
I’m just kind of wary about the process of reporting— I’m gonna have to do it on a work day and I don’t know what the police will ask and stuff. It’s a bit anxiety inducing, although I really wanna get back at the scammers. 