Kuching man loses over RM800k in lottery prediction scam
KUCHING: A man lost a whopping RM807,623.15 after he was fell victim to a lottery prediction scam. Kuching OCPD ACP Ahsmon Bajah said the victim had come across an advertisement on lottery number prediction while surfing the Internet on Sept 30 last year. He then contacted a person by the name of Dr Benjamin, who […]
‘Lucky’ Chinese phone number fetches $300,000 at online auction
BEIJING: A “lucky” mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan ($300,000) after hundreds of people vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits. The number ends in five eights, a sought-after combination in China as the word “eight” in Mandarin sounds similar to the word for […]
