British flag High Commission of the United Kingdom in Kuala Lumpur

Address185 Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Phonelocal: (03) 2170.2200
international: +60.3.2170.2200
Faxlocal: (03) 2170.2370
international: +60.3.2170.2370
Web sitehttp://ukinmalaysia.fco.gov.uk/en/
NotesYOUR ONLINE FRIEND WAS NOT ARRESTED AT THE AIRPORT.
YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED.


Have you been having conversations online with someone you've never met before who claims to live in the UK? Has he told you that he will come to visit you in Malaysia? And now is he frantically contacting you because he are being held at the airport, and needs you to pay a fine so he can be freed?

It is a scam. There is no romance, and there is nobody being detained at KLIA. The same person who was chatting online with you was also chatting online with many other victims. They are trying to trick you into sending money to an accomplice. Once you have sent the money they will disappear forever. Every year these scammers bilk unsuspecting victims out of thousands of ringgit. Don't be one of them.

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Eirol
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:08 EST
marz
i'm sorry to tell you that you are being scammed do not give money anymore. read all the post here and you will know what i mean.
marz
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:21 EST
help please uk embassy from malaysia
i am from philippines and im asking some help from the embassy of uk. Last nov.27 2012 my friend from uk went there malaysia for his parcel that he sent to me. me and my friend help each other to pay the taxes and vat of the parcel but the forwarder call me through the name of ani abdullah that the malaysian custom hold the lugage so they needed the owner of the parcel thats why my friend go there to prove that he really owns the parcel but the malaysian custom arrest him and they detained him for two nights and one day they ask him to pay 7000rm becaused they arrest him he call me and pleaded me to pay it. i did pay it through western by the name of the said officer who is Raini binti samin i thought they would released him after i pay but they said he still have a balance of 3,000rm. i pay again with the same name and after 3 hours a friend call me andsaid that they let him free but they didnt give him his parcel malaysian custom still hold his parcel with regard with this i wanna ask you if this Raini Binti Samin is a police officer from there malaysian custom. thanks
Eirol
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:17 EST
Annie
Ms. Afzan is correct tell him to show his face to you in ym or in skype. And asked for their office number as well not their mobile number because they can change it anytime. Be careful and please listen to all our advise.
MissAfzan
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 06:08 EST
annie
You should not believe him. This is just a trick. After he said this, then he said that. You just think that, same when we paid the money to them. After we pay for A, they will create the story to ask us to pay for B, C and etc. I don't think this is true. The man who cheated me before also used the same tactic and promise me to pay my money back but until now, I didn't manage to get back even 1 cent from that bastard scammer. I will not forgive him for the rest of my life. If you still want to trust him, just say to him to show himself infront of you first then you will trust him. For me annie, its hard to trust him after what had he did to me before. He just trouble my life. That's what I can't forget. Please be careful annie. You can call the lawyer incharge but, don't call using their mobile number. Ask for their office number. Just see what excuses they will give to you not to call their office number. Please my dear friend, don't simply trust him again. God bless you...
annie
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 05:41 EST
mafzan
he just e-mail me and convinced me to call the lawyer incharge to our merriege processing.he told me that my visa is ready to collect,would u think that i believe him.i told him i would believe u if you will give me back my money.and he told me he will give me back.would you think i believe him.
Eirol
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 21:38 EST
Linda Girouard USA
I hope that this site will be seen by lots of women in the same situations like us before they become the next victim. Let us join hand to stop this scammers
Linda Girouard USA
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:12 EST
SCAMMED!!!!!
Hello, I am sending another message about a person who showed up on my facebook page in June, 2012, I looked at his profile and the nice person that I am I responded back to him , after a while we responded back and forth.His profile said his hometown is Sydney, Australia and that he work for Belinfinger in Germany as a Project engineer. He told me he was a subcontractor for them and he was doing a project there for 3 years. WE corresponded for at least 7 weeks and he said he had another project that he was working on and got approved, apparently the first day the tractor broked down and apparently he could not get a loan because he already borrowed money from someone who knew his father and lend him the money apparently he didn't have enough money for the tractor and could not get another loan so he asked me for $3,000.00 dollars and I said no he got angry and begging. A couple of weeks later he said he had to fly back to Bristol, England because his mother needed a kidney transplant and of course I felt sorry and lend him $1,000.00 and he promised to pay me back asap. Well time went by and I was not getting my money back, he said he was going to fly to the US to meet me and give me my money back, things started to get confusing. He asked me for more money and then I realized I was scammed, I got angry and I unfriend him on facebook, but we still kept in contact on his yahoo site then I deactivated the account. I posted something to the Embassy and he found out and sent me a text to not contact him again, the next day he deactivated his facebook account. A week later he had his girlfriend or who ever to contact me and wanted me to feel sorry for him and she said she was in love with him and asked me to contact him and tell him how much she was so in love with him, I told her to get lost and don't contact me again. I keep sending posting because he is a scammer and a liar. on his profile he was a very handsome man and you could not help yourself to fall for him. His name is Henry Douglas, his email is henrydouglassmith@yahoo.com his phone number is 60146470946, just beware for a smooth talker and a good looking man, it is so easy to fall into his trap, don't let it happened to you. I have not heard from him again and I hope I never meet the bastard, he has made my life miserable. BEWARE!!!!!
Eirol
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 07:28 EST
ms Afzan
your welcome
MissAfzan
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 04:37 EST
Eirol
Thanks for the information.
Eirol
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 01:42 EST
please read
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