- Report: #1530759
Complaint Review: Hong Leong Bank in Malaysia/ Lynda Chathae/Aryan Sayid/Eden Genon -
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Ben Shield -
Mission Viejo, CA, United States
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Hong Leong Bank in Malaysia/ Lynda Chathae/Aryan Sayid/Eden Genon
Malaysia
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HongLeonggroup.com
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Hong Leong Bank in Malaysia/ Lynda Chathae/Aryan Sayid/Eden Genon Lynda Chathae Aryan Sayid Eden Genon They acted as if they were a bank, promising us a loan for millions of dollars for our business and stole $7500 having us set-up an account and paying for a TAC code.
We were searching for capital for our business through a 3rd party and they introduced us to Hong Leong Bank Berhad. You could find lots of info on line and using LinkedIn we were able to connect with the people at the bank. They seemed legitimate as they re-posted postings from the "real" Hong Leong Bank. After sending $5000 to Eden Genon to open our account, we then dealt with Aryan Sayid, and a senior person at the bank Lynda Chathae. We agreed to send them our project plan, and our personal info. They approved our multi-million loan after 30 days and sent us some very convincing documents. Obviously, someone there worked in the banking industry to represent these documents so well. They placed over $10MM in the account we set up and agreed to the larger funding in tranches afterwards. We never got access to the account and they required an additional $2500 as a TAC code was now required. We sent that amount and again we didn't receive access. They then asked for $10K to re-index our account into the primary Hong Leong Bank vs Hong Leong Bank Berhad. It was at this point we demanded zoom meetings with senior officials and Lynda Chathae who had signed our loan papers. She never spoke to us even after several zoom appointments and hid behind cultural and Islamic differences. We were now clear it was a scam. The 3rd party we used to raise the money also had 10 other clients in a similar process and all for very large sums of money, over $250MM each per project, they were scammed also. We had people in Malaysia go to the bank location on the loan papers and could never meet these people. LinkedIn was also at fault as anyone could set-up a phoney profile to be used to scam people. LinkedIn took no responsibility for enabling scammers and wouldn't block their accounts. Hong Leong is so large that scammers can hide anywhere in their multiple divisions and falsely represent them. These scammers probably worked at the bank at a high level at some point and are getting back at the bank by smearing their reputation.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Irv
United StatesFACT!
#2Consumer Comment
Sun, January 21, 2024
ADVANCE FEE LOAN SCAMS WOULD NOT EXIST IF YOU PEOPLE WITH ZERO FINANCIAL COMMON SENSE WOULD LEARN WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING!
