Today’s dysfunctional society
life, security, social March 25th, 2009I’m not sure what your interpretation for social security disability… but I have something very disturbing to share about today’s social security disability.
During lunch this afternoon with a friend, another friend joins us. She just came back from picking her daughter from school.
It was quite sometimes I did not see her. So we had some great chit chat about economic, life, work and many more. But our conversations become serious when she mentioned about the social security problem caused by the bad economic situation today.
She told us how her friends… yes friends… received anonymous calls informing them that their kid has been kidnapped and they want ransom to be paid right away!!!
Her friends become panic, but luckily their mind still work and able to recall the school telephone number and immediately call the school to check on their kid. And it turn out that their kid is still in the school enjoying their classes.
It seems that this is going to be a trend and I believe there were some cases published on the paper already. Reading this kind of news on paper which occur somewhere else will not make much attention to us. But when the news is almost first hand to you, it really makes your mind blow… that’s human nature. So please be alert… if it can happen somewhere else, it can happen at your place. It is dysfunctional society out there.
And all the proprietors are believed to be not locals. Their slangs are very different from the local’s daily slang… be it in Chinese or Malay.
So please, every one should be more careful and alert.
If you are parents having schooling kids, make sure you know the school’s telephone number.
And if you are teacher, when the school’s telephone is ringing, please answer them… don’t just leave it ringing!!! Someone’s life might be in stake.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Quit scaring people. This urban legend (that people are trying to make money by pretending to seek ransom) is old as the hills. I’m sorry you have to make stuff like this up, but it doesn’t help.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Sarah?… Is that really you Sarah?… 😆
dang… should have posted this on April Fools…
well, I can’t say that my friend is lying…
but anyway, the moral of the story is… you must keep schools’ phone number… coz usually this is the last number entered in phone book 😛
March 27th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I even have the teacher’s handphone numbers…
March 28th, 2009 at 12:14 am
tats good dude… every parents should do that… parents & teachers should be friend 😀
April 7th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
There’s one in the news today about this – notice how they used social engineering – about winning a “prize”. Good read:
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/2525423/Article/index_html
April 16th, 2009 at 12:23 am
yep… and yet today there is another news… http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/15/nation/20090415193217&sec=nation
they should read more… man, this is getting bad… 🙁
this kidnapping trick should be stop immediately…