Telecalling scam in India! beware of prize win claims!
By Soniasony
@Soniasony (1827)
India
June 5, 2012 8:51am CST
One of my friend was cheated when she got a call from one the agencies.They told she won a prize of 25000 and she can come on a weekend and collect , they are offering it as silver jubilee celebration.But she and husband was given a presentation on their club and promised so many plans and offers of their club membership.She and her husbadn were tempted by offer and signed up for one.But later they got to know through websites that it was a scam!..they promised something in presentation and they were all skipped in agreement and they ended up paying 60000!..Now they are fighting for cancellation of membership..still not sure it can be done or not!
So people beware of such callers tempting you for an offer.
6 responses
@sekher1255 (26)
• India
6 Jun 12
thanks for posting this kind of informational posts. now there are lots of scams in different types. the reason behind this type of scams is the people want to become more rich with less time and less effort. so they believe in this types of things and goes behind that and end up in a great problems.
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@Soniasony (1827)
• India
6 Jun 12
Yes greedy to become rich instantly has cheated the innocents.Only god can save us.
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
6 Jun 12
There are a 1000s of such scams around. The best way to avoid such things is -NOT- to entertain any such things, as log as we are really required. If we have mony in excess look for some authorised/genuine investments. The retrun may be less, but our capital and small intersts will be safe.
If we look for short-custs are the problem maker. They know how to manipulate things and they can easily get SOME Customers in any way, as everybody is looking for some easy money. Out of 100 people, they can easily get 5-7 people and they are the targets.
Your discussion is an expample, but still people will run after such business deals.
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@Soniasony (1827)
• India
6 Jun 12
Yes you are right!..reliable investments have less returns but risk free.only shorcuts to make money are really risky and sometimes disastrous..There is sure shot of a percentage in 100 that fall for such scams really.
@Soniasony (1827)
• India
6 Jun 12
Thats really a horrifying experience !!!..The thought that you got cheated!! is really painful
@sujaysen (594)
• India
5 Jun 12
Hello, I have also same experience for 2 times but luckily I was escaped from all those cheating people. Both of the time, I was offered in some different way and from different people. As soon as I got those offer, I told them to call me after sometime and between that period I searched for those companies activities on the internet and found them as doing fraudulent business. When they called me again, I ask them in a loud voice about their fraudulent policy and soon they bypassed all those questions and ended their call.
To all those cheater I request not to cheat such innocent and honest people. Because, for their wrong doing, some genuine company or people can suffer a lot in the coming days. We might not believe the real and honest people. So, if all those cheaters till want money, I would advise them to beg rather than cheating. Because begging is better than cheating.
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@Soniasony (1827)
• India
5 Jun 12
That was a smart move!, just borrowed some time to search the internet to know whether the policy is legim or not!, yes they even spoil the names of the reputed companies who are planning for better schemes.Thanks for early warning what people should do when they get the call.
@ROCKHARISH3844 (395)
• India
5 Jun 12
I heard about this types of scams before. We will get phone calls, messages and mails saying you got huge amount of money and do so and so... even i had received some mails like this. but as i was aware of this scam i dont even bother to read the whole mail and delete it out. So i advice every body in mylot not to follow such scams dreaming about becoming crorepathi.
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@Soniasony (1827)
• India
5 Jun 12
This people actually give you prizes , but they try and convince you to buy their product which is worth more than 60000!, they capture your interest in travel and lure with all offers abroad!..
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
6 Jun 12
This is very sad for your friend and her husband. They were scammed and there really isnt anything to do to replace the money they lost. They can report it to the local police, to file and further an investigation. Sadly, these types of scams are all over the place, and happen daily.
@Soniasony (1827)
• India
6 Jun 12
You are right , itseems there are around 682 complaints against this club in cosumercomplaints portal!, that means even after police complaints or consumer courts there are pending cases and money can or cannot be refunded! Sad!
@Soniasony (1827)
• India
6 Jun 12
Yes agreement is signed and they have to fight a lot to get back their money.. I hope they get it back!!