My Name is Sam Hu

One day, I searched facebook for the number of "Sam Hu"s on facebook. There were many, to my surprise!

So i had an idea to create a facebook group with the name: "My Name is Sam Hu".

While inviting members to join, i, for the first time in my life, was sending personally addressed messages to individuals WITHOUT changing the name of the addressee! It was a funny experience.

It was funny also, because facebook thought i, personally and legitimately addressing other facebook members, was sending spam, because all my messages had the exact same content!


And therefore blocked my messaging capabilities for an undefined period of time! Too bad facebook's spam detection isn't as good as to detect that all the people whom i was sending messages to, were called Sam Hu.

Latest question from one of the Sam Hus' friends:

Hahaha!

Scammers Are Getting Smarter (HK Saga) - 香港詐騙集團

There was a call that i received 3 months ago, that claimed themselves as the Hong Kong Tourism Bureau. The purpose of their call was to invite me to a grand opening ceremony of one of their programs - in Hong Kong of course. I said that i am not in Hong Kong. They said that i can watch it on satellite. I said that i don't have satellite. They said that i can go to a friend's house to watch it. I have friends. . .

Anyway, 1 month ago, they called again. And said that they are able to send some discount vouchers for tourism activities in Hong Kong. I said, okay send them over.

1 day ago, i received a letter, from the "Hong Kong Tourism Bureau". It looked like this from cover to cover:

Good-feel texture booklet, with nice colour.

Uses the HKTB website, as well as adopting their logo.

The booklet is very detailed, it even had this:

Free advertising for Tissot! This made me laugh.

There is a prize pool, on a particular page, and corresponding winning numbers. How to play, is scratch the silver off the silver scratch, and see if your codes match up with any of the winning numbers.
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And guess what??

Check out the busy-looking "lawyer" photos, and how you sort of expect to win, with so many numbers to call.

Conclusions:

A. I really wonder what a chat would be like with one of those lawyers, when i call their hotline =].
B. Hong Kong scammers are putting in a lot more effort by sending colour brochures and even investing a 3 month time period in their clients!
C. These guys are continuing to operate and evolve in practices, because of some people in the world who are falling for their trick. Thence, here it is, EXPOSED.