Nearly Got Conned By Gimmick

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About two months ago, I had received a phone call via my mobile phone to do a survey about usage of credit card. I had not wanted to do the survey but was asked to do as it was claimed that it was short & only a few minutes of my time will be taken. I thought that was the end of the whole thing when I completed the whole survey.

During this week, I had received a phone call with regard to the abovementioned survey that I did. The person said that as I had participated in the survey, the company conducting the survey would like to reward me with a $800 voucher and a free handphone. My instinct kicked in immediately, having fallen victim to timeshare companies & lost money to a conman before. I told her that I did not wish to collect the gifts. She was rather persistent, together with her manager, as they kept calling me to collect the gift. In the end, I was sick and tired of their behaviour and went reluctantly to collect the gift.

The office was at The Corporate Office at Tanjong Pagar. When I reached there, the security guard asked me if I was going to #09-06, I told him Yes & he guided me to take the gift. Somehow, I had the feeling that the security guard was trying to hint something to me. I went up and went through the registration process and was escorted into a room where I was briefed about investment in gold. I was asked if I was interested to invest in gold. I told the person that I was not interested, and she tried to convince me to invest, but I continued to say no. The person knew that she could not get me to invest, decided to let me go.

I collected the free handphone and voucher after the talk, and told myself that my guess was right that there is indeed no free lunch in this world.

This post serves to share my experience and to warn my friends to be such gimmicks that has been going around recently and be careful of this.

 

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