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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Marie
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 13:34 EDT
Richard Benedictus
I have a friend with a similar story. A guy also contacted her in Facebook name Richard Benedictus. He said he was a widower and has a child name Jessica from Manchester, UK.

He said he is going to visit her after he made some business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He even send flight details of his travel. Then, he called her up when he was in Malaysia, saying his goods was held up and will be confiscated if he will not pay the taxes for it. He said he was over his credit limits and the bank will not be able to gave him loan so he asked my friend to send US$3000 to cover the taxes. Luckily, she asked us for advice and told her not too.

Then we checked his previous emails,and the IP Address where all coming from Malaysia even though he claimed to be in UK at that time.

I hope sharing this story will help others too.
ligaya
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 02:42 EDT
scam of philip morrison
2 weeks ago i met this man from facebook named philip morrison. we talk nicely and he said he likes me. he confirmed of visiting me here in Dubai so we can meet personally. today sept. 8, 2012 he's bound to come here but i'm surprised because a filipina woke me up in the morning calling me and telling that mr. morrison was being help in kuala lumpur malaysia. she said i have to send 1500usd so morrison will be released due to a lame of reason of bringing a big amount of money. initially i think of sending the amount but i come to my senses and searched the number that was being used by the scammer. thank God i found everything. for all the people out there, be careful scam is now a profession of tose who are jobless. shame on them!
Mary
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:31 EDT
to Joan
Do not believe them. They are scamming you. Just ignore their calls or change your phone numbers. I learn this from my experience.
Joan
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 02:09 EDT
Please check urgent
A friend of mine who has a freind from UK name Fabio Anderson Phone no: +447024039103 / +447024039195 with his daughter name Natasha Anderson came to Malaysia on 03/09/by flight no MH0616 arrived 20.15. Now he was detained since 03/09/12 until today due to not declare the money he bring in 750thousand pound. A custom officer name Noryati Binti Hambali said she can help to release him by paying USD3000 to ready the insurance document. now she ask for another USD 4500 for getting the Money Laudering certificate which need to pay UK government. which i don't understand is why this money need to bank in to her account and not direct pay to UK government. i just want to know this person really exist and now he still detained at custom KLIA.. please check is this guy still in custom.
Sharifah Bte Ahamad
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:44 EDT
Am I taking to genuine staff of British High commissioner. Mr Bright in Kuala Lumpur?t
Can anybody clarify me this scenerio? At last Thursday afternoon (6/9/20012);the man introduced his name Mr Bright; and informed me that the parcel contained large sum of money; cannot be send to my home address in Singapore; unless I have pay up the chargeable fees of S$1;200 and must be remittance to May bank of Ng Sau Ching, He remind me the the time given from from yesterday afternoon untill this Friday morning.The sender of the Envelope; Mr Ben; whom I know for 2 weeks in Tagged Mail Messaging; seemed to be cool person and he begged me to help him; to remitted the fee payment and he promised to pay me from the same envelope that contained his cash.I told Mr Bright; I am poor woman; if I borrow the money from friends and relative; to help the payment of the remmitant fees; this people will surely need to know the reason first and nowsaday myself and many knowlegable person will think suspiciously this must be some scam idea. I make my mind not to help Mr Ben;even we cannot be friends any more and perhaps may able to see in person. I have told Mr Ben who claimed that he is bussinees man; that my deceased hubby and myself are senior citizens and we live according to our budget means and cannot afford to pay the expensive goods.If there is true staff by the name of Mr Bright in British High Commission Office in Kuala Lumpur and is doing his genuine job; relating to receiving from sender and sending the parcels; package items to the recipient; and if some one is faking his name; I ; sharifah would like to ask for apology from you. If my good friend; Ben is really in genuine case ; because he said to me ; he is not in his own country; and is at oversea and thus cannot claimed his parcel back from the British Embassy. I would also say an apology to him because I have not help him. In the year of 2009 I have to made report to western Tampines police neighbourhood constituency. I realized that that the Nigerian person is a scmmer; who promise to share the asset of miilion USA currency in the bank from the undisclosed source in Nigeria, I shared this story with my nephew who is National Service police man for the enlistment and in the first year; he is working. The district Police Neighbor reminded and advice me not to send remittance money to strangers that we met in email website and never lend our identity cards; International Passport and do'nt give the duplicate copies of our documents; eitherwise this innocent people; may be accused of involvement in the crime too.This my principal of my daily life; Never mind we lost friendship spirits among the new friend that we met but try not to lost our hard earned money because we are foolish and blinded to trust the conman or the scammers. Yours sincerely Sharifah Bte Ahamad dated 7th; Friday; September; 2012.
Caroline
Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:38 EDT
Miss my Ex husband.
I miss my ex husband so much. Though we have been divorced for over 3 yrs now, i still think he's the best guy a woman will ever love to be with. I never stopped blaming myself for causing the breakup of our marriage and it still hurts until now, but i wish him all the best of luck with his future partner. His name is Chris Shan ChongLin.. He's a Doctor and we have 2 kids
Blessing
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:06 EDT
To vijaya
My advice too , not transfer anything to them include give them any of your bank account no. That must be a scam, There was not such thing you need to pay first to get the transferred money .
Blessing
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:59 EDT
Scam again from London who claime himself been retained at airport
Will like to share to all that really happened to myself . I used to know a guy name John Raheem Simpson around 2 months back . He claimed that he was script writter & staying at London. He supposed fly to Singapore to visit me 2 days ago as what his original plan.Before his flight , he able to send me his confirmed flight detail (London -Amsterdam -SIN -Amsterdam -London) +hotel booking confirmation. When the day come, he used Msia no to SMS me that he been retained by KLIA custom because they found he brought in 250k pound, that is crime. And mentioned the custom called to British embassy& he was waiting for them. Thereafter, there was another lady act as embassy officer named Marina who can speak in Malay called me with another Msia no , mentioned to me Custom need John to pay for the penalty $ 10k in order to release my friend & the 250k money.And John did ask me transfer the money to the embassy lawyer - Mike but rejected by me which I said I'll more comfortable ask my friend hand to him directly. In the mean time , I tried call to the hotel to check his booking , guess what the booking has been cancelled the day before he depart by travel agent because CC declined. Eventually , I called to uk enbassy with the no given as above to check whether anyone named John been detained , result negative. By the way , his online FB account just inactivated by yesterday as well . So obviously , this is another scam happened. Nothing lost from me, coz we not stupid .. Not be next victim /target on this kind of scam !! Anything they said need help, pls provide them the UK British embassy contact no as they are the one can only help of they really been retained . Best blessing to all ~~
Mary
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:14 EDT
to Vijaya.
Hear my advice, do not pay. I think you are being scammed.
vijaya
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:18 EDT
Benefitiary details
Name : Vijayalakshmi Veeriah
Ic Number : 620831106306

My friend have send me 3500GBP which is now been holdup at the Finacial Office
Mr. Cleverley
British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur.
His contact is 01113209519

He is requesting me to pay RM1650......
Kindly advice on this as i have make alot of payment on this before.

Thank you.

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