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SE are getting members to go around MRT and bus Interchanges pretending to be part of some entrepreneurship game
Refer to this thread.. http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1974906
Around 8pm i went to hougang mall... then just when i was about to go home, i saw this couple being approached by this kid
Flash back to 3 weeks back, it was sort of like a deja vu scene:
when i was at kovan mrt (outside heartland mall), i was approached by this kid who claimed to be part of some kind of "entrepreneur game" and have to collect $60? or more in order to win? i don't know
I asked him for the coy name then, but he tried to skirt the question and then produced this paper clip, and ask me for $10 (saying what people have gave him $10, even more).
i say dun have, so he say $5, $2 also can. i dug at my wallet but i was not willing to fork out $2 for it, so i ask him for $1 change.
Ok, but today seeing the same scene, I walked forward to try to "listen in". About 2 meters from the couple, this guy approached me. He began with the exact same lines...
so i raised my voiced and confronted him there and then. I asked for the company name/organisation name, what was this course they were talking about and why this game need to take so long
To that, he replied that the game was continuous..., and the company was a consortium of groups. [Now I know why liao...], called simi "Private Training Hub". Of course i doubted the existence of such a generic coy name... So i asked for the manager name...
He gave me this guy's number (his manager i presume), but cannot contact him, so I continue to grill the same guy. (and got his phone number). I retorted that being in this course/coy whatever sh!t, shouldn't he at least know something about the coy?
but he gave this excuse that he just joined 2 weeks back, and blah blah blah some crap. So I asserted that what they were doing is tantamount to cheating. The guy who was talking to the couple said that they were not in the know at all (ya right, who would believe now). of course by then the couple's attention were already diverted, the couple ran away after that (my confrontation with the two guys).
oh, before that they even compared themselves to tissue sellers. saying they also got no license, same as them. so i say, why not I call mata on the spot...
i was suprised he readily accepted the challenge. So i wanted to give them chance... so just give them verbal warning first.. after finding out how many of them were around
Part 2:
so i walked across to hougang interchange, on the opposite side of the road. initially i wanted to take bus go home liao. but i was getting infuriated that there are these potential cheats out there while people were performing on tv to get donations
so i approached the passenger service counter at the bus interchange. but no, they don't want to handle even though it's just outside their premises. they say, "we cannot interfere, you want can call police"
so i call mata lor. "Hello police ah? got ginna soliciting money from public without license at hougang mrt outside oub" around 10 minutes later i saw them (the kids) running across to the interchange. (I assume they saw mata)
They ran like the wind haha. I walked forward to confront two of those crossing the road.
Of course they tried to shake me off, giving lame excuse say got what meeting and all those crap. But i persist and continue to grill this first guy previously and ask what school he from, simi course.
oh mean while the other 4 people hanging around eddypsp shop. After lecturing them further, the two guys joined up with the other 4 and were like waiting for me to board my bus...
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From what I see its part of SE's "course". The money collected will go towards paying for their company function in Macau/HK
A thread with all SE related blogs which had been deleted
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1978051
Threads on such happenings from HWZ:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1977215
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1974906
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I have met such people before,at interchanges and even food courts.
Call the police immediately if harrassed by such miscreants.Describe to
the police their clothes even if they run off.The police will check the area.
Others will claim they are helping charities.What they produce as
proofs are all fake.Call the police at once too.
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