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CIMB Click Pishing and SMS Alert

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A few months ago, Muridi Mohammad from Perlis was shocked when his money has been missing from his CIMB account.He received an SMS telling him he had won RM14,000 in an Akademi Fantasia 6 (AF6) competition. All he had to do to claim his winnings was to telephone the number given.

When he called, a man claiming to be from Astro asked for Muridi’s bank account number to deposit his winnings. Though he was hesitant, he did so. Fortunately he had enough sense to give an account with little money in it.

“I gave him the account my tenant uses to pay the rent.” The CIMB account had a balance of just over RM300.

Although this case is not new, but this poor Ustaz still want to try his luck. He just gave his account number just to see wether the scammer will deposit money or not. But it turns out, the scammer manage to withdraw money from his account two times. About an hour later he checked the account and found that two payments of RM120 had been made to “I-PYMT TO COLL”.

The BIG question here, how this criminal manage to withdraw money just using user account’s number. Really strange. I think this guys are really professional,even CIMB never release a statement about their system flaw.So just use thumb rule, if the offer is too good, then it is a scam. Don’t try to outsmart them. Maybe your are dealing with international criminal :).

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Tags: ATM, ATM card, Automated teller machine, Banking Services, business, Citigroup, Credit card, Financial Services, Identity document, Identity theft, Oceania, online banking, Personal identification number, Phishing, Security, Uniform Resource Locator, Website, World Wide Web

John Chow in the house-Entrecard Spot

John Chow has bought an Entrecard spot in my blog “Show Me The Money”. Thanks a lot John, I really appreciate your support.I am so happy that a big and famous blogger like John has visited my blog and decided to support me by buying my Entrecard ad spot. Not that bad my blog, rite ? :).Hopefully I can be like him one day.

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Tags: Advertising, blog, business, entrecard, FeedBurner, Home, Income, John Chow, On the Web, United States, Web hosting service, Weblogs

Maybank Visa Debit Card vs Tune Card Visa Prepaid

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Hi guys,

I read in the net that Maybank launched a new Maybank Visa Debit Card, I said WOW! that would be great since I have a saving account with them.So, I am expecting free service, easy top up and more shopping at the Internet.   I am glad more local banks start offering Visa debit card facility.

Steven Wong has made a summary about this new card :

To review whether this Visa debit card compatible to PayPal withdrawal, I spend sometimes to read on Maybank website, and here is the quick summary for your info:

- Max daily withdrawal limit: RM5,000.

- Daily accumulated purchase limit is RM500 and you can increase it anytime via bank’s ATM or over the counter branches to RM5,000.

- First four withdrawal is FREE while a service charge of RM0.50 per transactions per card chargeable from the fifth cash withdrawal transaction onwards per month. However, service charge will be waived if your savings or current account has a balance of above RM5,000 at the time of withdrawal or the withdrawal amount is RM1,500.

- Service charge for withdrawal transaction for:

1. Maybank’s Group ATM in Singapore, Brunei and Philippines: RM2 each
2. MEPS network: RM1 each
3. Visa Plus Network: RM12 each

- Existing Maybank ATM card holders can convert their cards with the one time cost of RM12. It is also the same cost for card replacement.

- However, if you used up to 7 years (upon the expiry date, you will get the replacement at FOC).

- Earn 1 TreatPoint for every RM3 purchases.

- No annual fees, monthly interest rates or late charges.

So, since I am a Tune Card user plus have a Maybank saving account, I think it would be good if I compare this two card, rite ?

Below is a brief comparison of our very own Tune card Prepaid Visa Card vs Visa-branded debit card

Conclusion,

I better stick with Tune Visa Prepaid Card, Why ? As you can see it is more flexible and Internet friendly. The most important thing is you can withdraw your PayPal money with it.:)

By the way, you can use Maybank ATM card in Petronas Petrol Pump and selected Supermarket so why Maybank want to promote this Debit card instead. I think their business idea for this Debit card is weak because you don’t want to go abroad only carrying debit card right?. At least you must have a spare credit card for emergency.

For me, debit card or Prepaid card is only suitable for Internet transaction. Buy ticket,hosting,domain and eBay online. So if maybank overlook this thing than their debit card will be nowhere compared to by Tune Prepaid Visa Card.

Several feedback that I got :

1. The question now is: Can Maybank Visa Debit cards compatible to PayPal withdrawal? I search on the web and try to find any review on that, unfortunately, there is no review so far. The closest was Uncle FL Sam on his withdrawal to Maybank Visa Credit Card.

So, I called up this morning to Maybank Customer Service to find out the details. The Maybank staff that I spoke to also not sure whether it is workable. After 20 minutes checking and waiting, she told me “NO” for PayPal withdrawal. steven wong

2. I try to add MBB Visa Debit card with Paypal, its not work. The following message will appear…

“This credit card has been denied by the bank that issued your credit card. For details on why your card was denied, please contact your credit card issuer’s customer service department. Or, you may want to try adding a different credit card.”  zahidi

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Tags: Automated teller machine, business, CIMB, Credit card, debit card, Financial Services, Hardware, MasterCard, maybank, paypal, Philippines, prepaid card, tunecard, tunemoney.com, United Kingdom, visa

Rebate Application Approved:Blinking Streamyx III

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Please read my previous post here, to get the general idea of what I am talking about.

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Good news :), finally my problem with Blinking Streamyx  is completely solve. My rebate application is approved, and within a month from 23rd December 2007 Hopefully I will get my money back.

I have to check at https://tmbill.tm.net.my.

We wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued patience and understanding, as well as extend our appreciation for your continued support of TM. We wish to assure you that we are constantly improving our service and listening to customer feed back to further improve on the level of our service and customer satisfaction

Nurul Ain Mohammed Ghazali

Customer Care Support, Internet Services

Can I consider that as they admit their mistakes ,feel really sorry and they will never ever send a stupid Contractor again? hehehe. Anyway Thanks for the rebate :). Maybe one of their staff has read my blog,mmmm  that’s why..hehehe

Tags: business, Customer, Customer satisfaction, Customer service, Michel Tremblay, Technical support, Telekom Malaysia, Website

Welcome 2008, Goodbye 2007

2007, has a lot of sweet memories. My first  Hari Raya Celebration with my wife, bless with new born child and become a father. I am 28 now, next year I will be 29 ,,yup not far from 30 I guess.

Next year, I have to be ready financially and mentally since I have a daughter now. Beside car insurance, car loan, house loan and study loan that need to be paid, my daughter expenses has to come in. Nursery, pampers, cloths,milk and her teddy bear of course.:)

Hopefully I can handle all that, I have to work much harder now. I will not let her down. Papa loves you Damia.

But just to be in safe site, I have found this great cash advance and payday loans site.  Anything could happen, so if I need fast, unsecured loans in times when I can’t wait for pay day, then there will be no problem. Applying over the internet is a fast way to fund a personal checking and personal account.

So Damia, Papa rather use Payday loans rather than facing situation like bouncing checks, selling personal property or like borrowing money from family and friends.

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