UNWITTING Aussie consumers are being targeted in a direct mail campaign operated by Kuala-Lumpur based scamsters.
The sophisticated operation sees a firm called “High Roller Holidays” send glossy brochures and scratch tickets (pictured) via post to Australian addresses, claiming to be part of the company’s 15th anniversary celebrations.
The promotional blurb cites the major achievements of High Roller Holidays which interestingly include the fictitious US$5 million development of a “new five-star hotel with a new adventure theme park in Australia”.
Travel Daily was one of the lucky winners, with the scratch card indicating we had won the US$200,000 second prize!
There is a reasonably convincing website and a Malaysian phone number to call for verification.
Naturally the fine print indicates that we may need to pay some “service fees” understood to be about US$3,500 in order to access the prize.
The scam is the latest in a series of similar fraud attempts, with other company names in previous fake brochures including Abel Travel Group, Famosa Travel, Lotus Travel and more.
Source: traveldaily