Last week, someone close to me went to pump petrol at a Shell station on Tanjung Tokong road. There, she was asked to join the Shell RM2 million cash contest. She filled up her particulars (name, mobile number & IC number), and asked where the box to drop the form into was. The cashier pointed her to it. She dropped the form off and didn't think much about it.

Today, she received an SMS saying :

From SHELL!! Tahniah anda telah memenangi hadiah contest SHELL 2,3 MILION

Sila hubungi talian:
0178632489

Later, she got a phonecall from the number above, asking for her account number. She didn't have her bank book with her at that time, so they asked for her ATM number instead, and asked her to go to the nearest ATM machine to key in some pin that they will give her.

You see, because she actually did join the contest, she really thought that she had won something. However, she wisened up and told them to call back later. They didn't.

So the thing is, she joins this contest at the particular Shell station, and 3 days later she receives this scam call. A coincidence? I highly doubt it. Someone at the station must have gotten hold of her information and given it to the scammer, or the person at the station was in fact the scammer himself. This is very scary, and I am going to avoid that Shell station like mad if they employ such untrustworthy scammers.