My advice, never buy things on behalf of your friend because if the deal goes wrong, you'll end up coughing out your money to payback to your friend, unless you're selling for a profit but if you're buying for your friend for free, then really not worth it lah. Next time, they give so much deposit lah, it doesn't make sense why must pay half for deposit, even I order something expensive, I just pay RM50 enough liao.

You have forgotten one thing, there are loopholes in the registration system for prepaid lines, I could write whatever I like on the form so wouldn't you think that the person who conned you could do so. It's not like they'll ask for your MyKad and fill in the details for you. For Maxis, they just give you a form, after you write your name, address, blah, blah and number, that's all ........ With such a system, I seriously doubt you can nab any criminals including Ah Longs.

If he asked for RM50, it's okay lah, I'm sure he won't take the trouble to create an account here, post this, post that to cheat 50 bucks because seriously, it's not worth it. But a few hundred ringgit is way too much for a deposit.

Hmm ....... yalor till now, we dunno the con person is a Malay, Indian, Chindian, Mindian, etc.

You guys very smart leh, any info also can find. How about checking his MyKad or maybe with JPJ to see if he owns a car, motorbike or something.

I guess we can assign you a special tag, Conman Investigator.
Anyway, do keep us updated on your investigation on this fella.

If you think positively, yes but if you think negatively, it's a big no because of our privacy, I'm sure you have heard of people including telco companies selling our personal info to these so called telemarketing companies, right? Yeah, that's what I'm hinting at. It can lead to abuse sometimes.