House rental SCAM! SCAMMER alert!

amyshin — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:21:03 +0800

Hi all,

Please be aware of this CON MAN - WONG YI PEI (Residence address: PJS 9, Sunway Bandar, Selangor; phone number: 0196610626; email eugene.yipei@gmail.com). Me and (at least) 9 other people got scammed amounting more than 30,000RM

I was scammed while renting a room in Sunway Geo in July. I lost 4375RM. Until now, the police has not found the guy so he may still be out there con people. I had never thought this kind of thing would happen to me until it did so guys, please always stay alerted!

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In July, I was looking for a Master Bedroom in Sunway Geo Residences. I saw a post on ibilik from account name Eugene asking for 1300RM while the market average price is 1500RM.
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I made appointment to visit the room. Eugene introduced himself as the owner's nephew and that his "aunt" (the owner) is living abroad. Hence, he helped her to take care of the house. He also explained he gave lower price because it's better to have the room occupied all time rather than asking high price but room is vacant and no income. My visit was totally normal, there was 1 tenant in the living room at that time. The house looked like there were people living: there were shoes, clothes and all. Eugene was very convincing. He said he would provide a new mattress and re-paint the room. He kept asking what concerns me about the house and tried to address ALL the issues reasonably. For example: when I asked for a bigger wardrobe, he said he would bring an old one from his "aunt" house cuz they could afford to buy a new one etc... He showed me the messages between him and other tenants in which other tenants transferred prevous month rental and utilities of the house. Later on that day and next day, he kept following up with me via messages and calls. Because he found out and addressed all of my concern, I agreed to take the room. I took his name card, we signed the memo and I transferred 2.5 months deposit plus first month rental= 4,375RM (got 50RM discount for the rental) to a Maybank account name "WONG YI PEI". Eugene said it's his aunt's bank account but actually, it's his bank account.

2 weeks before the moving day, I tried to contact him but he did not reply my message and my call went to voicemail box. I called his company on the name card. The Director said Eugene stopped working for them 2 years ago. Also thanks to that Director, I knew about other tenants who also got scammed. 10 of us gathered and made the policy reports. However, more than 2 months passed by, the police hasnot found him. We have his real ID, his bank account, his phone number was in use for few years, we found his sister contact but sill no one found him!
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We later found out that Eugene was actually the house keeper. That's why he had all access cards and knew the tenants in the houses. Eugene lived in the house since November and all tenants thought he is owner's son. They also thought the bank account "Wong Yi Pei" is owner's bank account. He has been an agent for few years so he knew how to deal with tenant and had the contracted well-prepared.
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My mistakes in this process are:
- I did not verify the owner with Sunway Geo Management office
- I did not contact his company to verify about him
- I should have not transfer a big amount based on a piece of contract only. When you give the money to someone, find way to protect yourself. ID, contract does not help when the guy runs.

You can read story from other tenant who also got scammed like me here (you can see the admin's note saying that the owner has confirmed everything is true): https://www.facebook.com/sunwayconfessions3...3776417?__xts__[0]=68.ARC0NTdeCg7nuO3MJTDIkcvXkYlZkWSu3Ze6AVsFCSgpnp9j0HwsHE0_5qCiCp1vouxIqP0ZKWJduEhQixHwxVw3_dtsE-xH1nM5Xq5tyZoxHgY915MWKWFuxwbDULypaLl-h0dCFn9YSg35vlm97cMQKbdsQrS2VT7_3DCFxupadFsUp6qwdg&__tn__=C-R (post #19537 )

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House Rental scam - SCAMMER alert

amyshin — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:53:17 +0800

Hi All.
Please be aware of this CON MAN! I and many students/contractors in Sunway got scammed by him recently amounting at least 30,000RM.
When I read scam news before, I never thought it would happened to me but it did. It may happen to you too so please always stay alerted.
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The guy name is Wong Yi Pei (Eugene) (Residence address: PJS 9, Sunway Bandar, Selangor). What makes the scam tricky are:
- He used to be a normal agent for few years.The phone number: 0196610626 , the email eugene.yipei@gmail.com were in use for few years. He knows the industry so he talked reasonably, convincingly. He had the contract well prepared. He appears totally normal.
- He was the house keeper for one of the unit in Sunway Geo Residences as the owner is abroad. He found tenants, collect rents, pay utilities bill on behalf of the owner. Therefore, when we visited the room, everything was normal. He had all the keys and access cards. There was tenant in the house and he greeted them. He was able to show us the messages between him and other tenants for the past few months.
At the end, he run away with all the deposit from soon-to-be-tenant and current tenant and also did not give last month rental to the owner. You can read more about the story here https://www.facebook.com/sunwayconfessions3...?type=3&theater (post #19537 )

Lesson learnt here:
- Always verify if the person is an agent or not. If he is an agent, verify his company. If he is not, make sure you verify the owner and have them acknowledged about your deal.
- Dont make big payment in advance
- Be cautious with good deal. The average price in the area was 1500, he gave us 1300.
Receipt, contract, all the paper thing do not mean anything. Once they run, your money is gone and no one can help. When you give money to some one, try to think about the worst scenario and think about the best way to protect yourself. In our case, we have his true ID (most of the time, scammer uses fake one), bank account, we find his family members, his friends. More than 10 police reports have been made but 1 month passed by and he is still nowhere to be found. If you catch him, please call police.
Stay safe.

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