Terence & Karen Limited Hong Kong
Complaint 267293 Details

I received an envelope with 2 tickets from fortune travelling on 18 july 2013. one of it was for 2nd winning prize $170,00 0 USD. on the ticket, it says if you win any of the prizes please contact us on +6011-26735136/ +6011-26735137 for futher assistance. Then i called fortune travelling the next morning and i spoke to mr. terence lee and he asked me to send the price ticket on his email [email protected]. After i sent the ticket, i got the call from him that they confirmed that i hold the winning ticket and wanted to know my Client ID.As i did not have it they said they will speak to their sponsor and get back to me.A day late they called and said after persuasion they have finally decided to award me the prize and wanted me to talk to their sponserors terence and karen limited in hong kong and gave their number which was +85225277177. I spoke to mr. winson lin and asked me to pay the letter of authorisation fees USD $3655 through western union and once i paid the amount the next day I got the call from their company"s accountant that he couldn"t proceed the transaction because i didn"t pay the tax to the government which was 4% of USD $170,000 and wanted me to pay $6800 which was really shocking for me. i talked to winson lin about it and said that why didn"t he adviced me about this fees before and replied that he was not aware of it that the non client has to pay the tax as well because their clients already have their investment accounts with so they charge them from it. i denied to pay such a big amount as i didn"t have that much money but he decided to talk about it to his management and concluded that i should pay half of that amount USD $3250 and half of it will be paid by them. i made a mistake and paid that amount and once they received the amount. i was told that their local bank will contact me after the transaction to your account is done. the next day i got the call from their bank and the guy told me that the transaction cant be made unless you pay the transaction fees of $1445. I was really pissed that moment and called winson lin and asked him whats goin on. he told me the same thing again that this is the first time they are honoring the prize money to the non client so they were not sure that there will be a transaction fees. I was already stuck in between as i paid lot of amount. he finally convinced me by saying that usually the transaction fees costs $2800 but you just have to pay $1400 because we did not advice you before about this. I did not have any other option so i borrowed some money from friend and sent the money again through western union. the next day the bank called me again and said that again they cant proceed the transaction because i dont have the insurance with them. It was really disappointing when i talked to winson lin again and he seemed angry too. after he had the discussion with the bank manager, he rang me back and asked me to pay the final amount of USD $3500. I decided not to give any more money as it seemes fraud to me but he promised me that the bank will be able to proceed the transaction after i buy the insurance. he looked at my situation and asked me to pay $1700 and he will pay $1800 from his own personal funds and asked me to pay him back after i get the prize money. I decided to pay $1700 but still nothing went right, i got the call from a person named akira the next day and told me that winson lin is suspended from this case because he had a financial bonding with you which was not allowed in a company and asked me to pay $1800. then i decided to pull my hands back as i already wasted too much money and asked them to refund my money back. then another accountant named broosk lee contacted me and said that if i cancel the process then i will be only getting $1100 because they said that the money i sent to them is already been paid for the letter of authorisation in high court, tax department and bank. I asked some proof from them to give me the assurity that their company even exist or not. they sent me the tax reciept which was in their own national language but it showed the amount and my name on it. he again convinced me to pay half of the insurance fee $1800. the next day i got a call from the person named ricky and he informed me that they stopped the process because the information for giving the prize money to a non client has been leaked out to their client and asked me for sometime to have a meeting with their board of directors. Now in the end they were asking me to be a temporary client and settle the funds for another USD $5000 to prove it to their clients that they are only honoring the prize to their client. Then after wasting huge amount of money i saw this site with their scammed story today and decided not to go further.the last call i got from them on 15 august 2013 and they were still convincing me to pay $5000 if i want the prize money but i told them that i am going to take legal action against this now. They still tried to show me that they are really generuos till the last moment. so far the evidence i got with me is the tax receipt, email to become a temporary member, 5 different receipts of sending money through western union with different agents of hong kong, the broshure and ticket from fortune travelling, the phone numbers and address i provided in the story. hope this issue gets resolved as i wasted lot of money and would suggest others to be really very careful with these scams as these guys are really trained to con people.