Phone scam again!

“mum got threatened saying ah boy with them cause he acts as a guarantor…” upon receiving this sudden bizarre sms from sis, I called back home to verify with my mother, only to be greeted with her heavily panting voice and near to tear tone. After some rising of her voice and fast forwarded speech, rushing to tell me what actually happen. I sort of make sense of the whole scam thingy.

Someone called and wailed on the phone, identifying himself as my mother’s son, “Ah Boy”. He claimed he was beaten up badly and ask my mum to tell his “big boss” to stop beating him up. And what follows were a string of hilarious reaction from mum. She scolded “Ah Boy” why did he kpo and acted as guarantor for others? Then she asked for the phone to be passed over to the “big boss” and scolded him why he beaten up “her Ah Boy” when all they want is just money!? She scolded and scolded and reasoned and scolded then the “Ah Boy” took over the phone.

Below is the conversation:

Fake Ah Boy: “I kana beaten lah…..mummy, ask them don’t beat me anymore…”
Fake Ah Boy: “do you have money?”
Mummy: “I have no money! I need to go and raise money!”
Fake Ah Boy: “does daddy have money?”
Mummy: “Daddy also no money got to go raise money!”

THEN MUM HUNG UP THE CALL

She started using her mobile phone calling dad and sis and Real ah boy but cannot get real ah boy on the phone. Sis managed to speak to mum and warn her of similar scam that had happened at our neighborhood bank and at the same time, sis tried contacting REAL ah boy.
Mum panicked. Then the caller called back:

Big boss: “why you hang up my call!”
Mummy: “I need to raise money!”

Then mum uses her mobile phone tried calling Real Ah Boy again.

Fake Ah Boy: “You no need to call me la, they confiscated my phone..”

Then mum realized his tone had a little accent of the Johor slang.

Mummy: “Then what is your number…tell mummy….mummy forgot…”
Big Boss: “You want to come out or not?”
Mummy: “Yes! But I need to raise money!”

THEN SHE HUNG UP

Then the caller called again:

Big Boss: “Why you hang up again?! I will kill your son!”

On the other hand, sis called and mum is holding two phones. Then sis confirmed Real Ah boy is in safely in camp.

Upon hearing that confirmation, mum replied to the Big Boss, “Oke lah! Oke lah!”

THEN SHE HUNG UP AGAIN.

The Big Boss never calls back anymore.

Thanks to mum’s naggy and panicky nature, all she did was scold and confront, and never even asked for the ransom amount but keep saying “I need to raise money!!!”
Then the Real Ah Boy called home to report his safety.

Dad sped home and a police report was made, some pamphlets were collected and distributed into our neighbours' letter boxes to warn them of the phone scam.

I think next time, we should come out with some secret codes within the family for example:

(Miu call home)
(Mum answered call)

Miu say: “I am your daughter”
Mum: “Secret code please”
Miu say: “My IC no, is XXXXXXXX and I don’t like to eat fish”
Mum: “Ok, you are my daughter”

Muahahahahah!

So ppl! Beware! Really hate these black hearted ppl! Imagine if it's some weak hearted old fragile elderly who answered the call, they may be scare to death! Please warn your parents about these black hearted beasts!