Irritating Telemarketing Phone Calls from Bank of China

For the past one month, I have been receiving telemarketing phone calls from telemarketer representing Bank of China.

The first time when I answer the call on 27 November this year, the other party did not greet me by my name and therefore I knew it some kind of random cold-call from these low-life telemarketing firms. I told the other party that I’m not interested in the credit card and loan facilities that she is promoting for Bank of China, but she keep on pitching her sales pitch like a parrot despite me shouting into my phone that I’m not interested. Finally I ended the call by hanging. In fact after this episode, almost every interval of 3 to 4 days I will receive the same irritating phone call at around lunch time from the same phone number. What I did was to answer the phone by hanging it up after one second. This happened today after my lunch too.

After coming to office from lunch, I decided to Google the phone number that was displayed by my phone caller ID. To my surprise, I’m not the only one who receive the telemarketing call from this telemarketing firm out to irritate the hell out load of people!!!

While viewing my call logs, I noticed that I have answer some phone calls from strange numbers. And I remember when I answered these calls, there was a silence before a computer generated “Goodbye” was heard the call dropped.

Screenshots of strange phone numbers

Few days later, I received the first call from that low-life telemarketing firm.

Screenshot of first call from the telemarketing firm

So what have these strange numbers that I answered got to do with the telemarketing firm’s cold-call? Here’s my analysis.

These calls are made randomly to phone numbers in their database to determine if the phone number is “live”. If the number status is “live”, it will be assigned to the telemarketing firm’s call agents to perform a cold-call to push for sales.

After further digging in Google, I found out the firm that is responsible for these cold-calls. The low-life telemarketing firm is Capital Hub & Enterprise Pte Ltd.

Apparently, this low-life telemarketing firm have been irritating people’s life since 2011.

The number so far used by that this low-life telemarketing firm are:

1) +65-62551674

2) +65-62599613

3) +65-65840034

If you are using a smartphone, you can download various call blocker application and add the listed phone numbers in the blacklist to prevent these numbers from reaching you.

On a last note, Google was pretty amazing, with my search for Bank of China Capital Hub keyword. Guess what I found? I found this bitch who is working in Bank of China (Capital Hub). If you are a victim from these irritating calls from Bank of China (Capital Hub) add this bitch as your Facebook and spam her! 🙂

Out of Reach

Received a call from a friend of my yesterday when I was sick and resting in bed. But his conversation with me woke up me from the bed and was totally engross in this conversation of ours.

Here’s what the conversation is about. This friend of my received a call from a particular bank regarding a credit card application that his employee has applied for. In Singapore you need to have a minimum annual salary of SGD$30,000 to get a credit card, so that average out to be a salary of SGD$2,500 per month.

However this employee of my friend is earning a salary of $1,700 per month and why the bank call up my friend is because his employee send in his credit card application together with a employment letter issued by my friend’s company. Some details in the employment letter seems to have been altered, like his basic salary has been amended to $2,100 and there’s an addition of $500 car allowance too which was not in the original employment letter.

Last evening my friend has terminated his employee’s service with his company.

Just can’t understand why some people want to apply for loan or credit card for lifestyle they cannot afford. Isn’t it better for them to be contented with what they currently have instead of chasing a “glamorous” lifestyle which they cannot afford?

It’s not your fault being born poor, but it’s your fault if you die poor.