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After scammers see that we are not replying as per their will, they have started adding into groups/communities 😑

You can allow only contacts to add you in WA setting under Privacy -> Groups. If someone else tries to add you to a group, you will get an invite instead.

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How there’s guys are doing scam can any one explain I am also getting same message multiple times but not reply any times

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Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

**News Flash:**

Hi everyone, there is a new WhatsApp stock market scam happening right now. It starts with a random person messaging you, usually with a woman's profile picture, offering free stock market tips. If you agree, they send you a link to join a group. In the group, they conduct two live broadcasts daily, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. They pay you to watch these broadcasts continuously for three days, along with some data pack recharges.

Initially, the broadcasts appear professional, discussing market indices and suggesting stocks. After about a week, they start promoting a "700% wealth surge plan" on your initial investment. They claim that the consulting services you're currently enjoying are worth Rs 50,000 for this quarter. If the 700% gain is achieved, you must pay consulting fees and revenue sharing for two quarters. The fees depend on the information service you choose for the next quarter. If the 700% profit is not achieved, no fees are charged, and future cooperation allows you to choose your desired service level freely.

The stocks they suggest also surge, and people in the group keep posting their profits and praising the "professor" named Hardik. When it comes to the 700% surge plan, they introduce a twist: they ask you to download an app or visit a website to sign up with your Aadhar number. They claim this "Preferred Asset Account" has several advantages:

1. It allows for pre-market trading.
2. It has priority trading rights when purchasing Upper Circuit stocks.
3. The success rate of subscribing to IPOs is higher compared to a regular Demat account.

Believing it to be genuine, you might add your money. Initially, you make good profits, but soon you realize you can't withdraw your money, and eventually, you are blocked by everyone.

The company behind this scam is IEF (International Equity Funds), operated by Meera Patel, Hardik Shah, and Ami Shah from the USA. If you Google them, you won't find any legitimate information. There are also multiple company names associated with this scam, according to my research. Be aware and never fall for these scams with unrealistic profits. Always use trading apps approved by the government, do your research, and be mindful.

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Dear all, 

Please discuss scams which you faced so that our community will learn and Save energy and time before scammed

Story should be very small and to the point

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Hi,
Today I got a message on telegram that if I complete tasks I  can earn around 3000-4000 Rs everyday.
I signed up for their service by providing FAKE details. Once  I signed up on the platform. I got around 1079.8 Rs as bonus.
I withdrew that amount into my bank account (FAKE Name was given here as well).

After that those people kept asking me to add 10,000 Rs into platform to proceed with next earnings. I rejected that since I knew that these are fraudsters and one you add that amount they never return the money (first time they pay 1079.9 Rs to win the trust) but later they don’t.

Just to make everyone aware that get your first time money and never send any money on such platform claiming huge income everyday.

Thanks

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Last Friday I went on a date with a girl from Gurgaon and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I was apprehended by her brother's friend at Ambience Mall. How? We were having a milkshake from Keventer's where some guy randomly pops out and starts enquiring about what we were doing.

The thing escalated and he said he will call police. I got scared. Then he motioned for someone, and that guy started misbehaving with us as well. It was becoming very stressful and I asked , "Tum chahte kya ho?" He was like, "Mhaare doston ko bhi thoda Milkshake Wilkshake pilao bhai." (Get milkshakes from KLeventers for our friends too). I was like, "Huh?" He demanded cash and said that he will get it himself. I gave them all cash I was carrying, some 2500 rupees and ran away. I think the girl was in on it too.

What should I have done?

Regret going on a date with a Haryanvi girl 👫🏻 ...

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I was reading news continuously for half an hr and keep on clicking on news headline. 

I reached to a page where it says, an Infosys founder explaining how they have built an Algo trading platform which will make you rich. From the 1st look, I thought it could be real but NO. 

This is what I understood ↙️

Business model: Investor add approx 20k and platform will start an automated trading in Crypto, taking mostly the winning deals so that capital increases everyday. 

To find the reality, I registered and got a call where executive explaining how Mukesh Ambani has announced this platform. MUKESH AMBANI? This was the 1st hint of a scam. 

Then she asked to screen share for helping me to put money. I was like call me in 1 hr, in the meantime I tried to report this on cybercrime site. 

This is what I found in the news later on https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/narayana-murthy-warns-about-deepfake-video-of-him-endorsing-trading-apps/article67641003.ece/amp/

Fraud - Algo Trading

I am posting this information to safe gaurd others job seekers and  posting after doing my level of research as one of the victim is my close friend. 

Person named Brahmaiah Shaik, who claimed as currently working as senior HR at Virtusa, Hyderabad has taken money from many unemployed job seekers promising them Jobs in development and testing and help them with fake experience letters and other onboarding activities. He has been promising jobs in Virtusa and Wipro like companies. Almost 38 lakhs has been collected from 21 individuals since Jan 2024 and they are still job less as he is not reachable now. People who has given money became helpless now. Please be aware of these fraudsters. Do not believe anyone who are promising jobs atleast do not pay blindly well before any progress. Build up your skills and try out for jobs or atleast approach a renowned consultants. Please if someone are there from Virtusa..let me know any internal ombuds channel to report this.

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I came to Bangalore 2 weeks ago. this is my first time visit to Bangalore. One fine day I was casually walking to my PG after having a tea at chai house. in the middle of a road a person with his newborn baby and wife approach me with folding hands. He asked me if I speak hindi. I nodded, then he said Iam from Maharashtra and he came here for job, but his master has kicked him out and not given him salary. He has no money for food and to travel back. He asked me to give him 300. I sensed it might be scam but being an emotional guy I thought 300 is not a big deal. I said I don't have cash but I can pay via phonepe. he showed me his qr on mobile. A thought ran in my mind does he has no one who he can call and ask for online money if he has working smart phone. when I started typing the amount 300 he said sir 300 for one person, pls pay for my wife too. I said I only have this much money only. I paid and walked off quickly. I think I'm scammed but it could be a genuine case too. 

tell me guys have you faced/heard this before. this might probably aware someone in future.

Is this a new scam?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pavan-musthala-250a191a6_my-desparation-for-a-job-got-me-into-the-ugcPost-7170668201943482368-9Yb-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

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Scammers not even taking effort of writing personalized messages. I'm not signing up!

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Not an Anti India or Indian hating post but I work in sales and I’ve discovered that Indians act so entitled as if they’re some high and mighty royals who have transcended from heavens above when interacting with anyone who’s calling them after they themselves requesting for it. 

Half the times these dumb clowns can’t even articulate 2 sentences together in English and struggle to understand what you try and tell them but act like they know it all. 

We’ve got to clean up our act as customers and human beings before we make a bigger mockery of ourselves than what’s already out there. No wonder we’re categorised as the cheap hooligan crowd outside.

Indian customers act the most entitled when they’re worth the least

Assistant Manager

Grammar improved when compared to the avail lottery, or your bank account is blocked call on this number. Rogue actors are sharing apks directly. Be careful of what you click on!

New ways of fraud. Be aware!

Hi all, I was living in pg in gurgaon and its been 3 months my security has not been refunded. The guy stopped responding to my calls and texts

I want file a legal complaint but if anyone knows what can be the right way to go about it, pls help your guy out.

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Hi community,
Recently I have been mugged by the hero vired of my hard earned INR 12k. I enrolled in one of their courses some time back paying a registration fee of 12k. As I was not super interested at the beginning, sales guys started pursuing me very hard by giving discounts/scholarships (for already overpriced courses). 

When I was still not getting convinced, they offered the program director and alumni connect to help me make the decision but only if I pay the registration fee which they made refundable (which was on paper non-refundable)

This is an INSEAD course and the conversation was done on a recorded line so I didn't take it as a red flag, only to find out later that they have blatantly refused to refund the money. They even refused that the fee was refundable and said that there was no phone call even after I showed the proofs of the call.

I had a month long discussion with them where they conducted a completely bullshit audit and their senior management (including CEO) also didn't respond on escalation. 

Recently, I was informed by the INSEAD panel that they have changed the management in Hero Vired and asked me to join now as I won't get a bad experience again. While I refused to join them, I thought I'll let the community know of the deep rooted culture of disservice at Hero Vired and warn you against joining their cohorts.

Don't get into their FOMO sales pitches and sweet promises, they won't comply with you as soon as you pay them.

I am not the first one with such experience. Check their google reviews.

My Experience: Beware of PM scams

Its funny how some Site Relaibility Eng like aditya who has never worked in Maang is selling dreams to Tier 3/4 folks to get placed in Maang in 90 days.

Coming to pratik kapasi who was an L4 with 10 years of exp in google with low SI rating. Literally everyone with 2 years of exp are doing better than him.

New Scammers in Town: Pratik Kapasi and Aditya Kamat

Okay, so this happened to me last year. I was approached by a college alumni (got my number from college alumni group) who told me he had a side business going on which was leading him to earn more money than his corporate job and that he was going to leave the corporate for his “business”.

I was initially not interested but he was insistent and also I was looking to explore some options (may be my naïveté) that I asked him more and so he setup a call with his senior to explain more about this “business”.

Now this senior gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how to reach financial independence and picking up on the general mindset of how to make more money. They asked to create a list of 10 things that I desired the most at the point of time which could be solved with more money. I complied thinking it was a good exercise (again, I was a big fool). Now I was connected with another senior who gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how I could make more money and lead to financial independence.

Please note, during all this time I was constantly asking what the business idea was and how it would be achieved but got no response on the details and only white washing regarding how I should be prepared to do anything to achieve my dreams.

Now, it was revealed that I would need to put in 5L as investment to get bigger returns. Since I did not have that money in handy, I was suggested to get a personal loan through their agents. Also not to inform this to parents because they won’t understand this stuff and get “worried”. Luckily I did went with their suggestion and informed my parent about it. Thinking it was a startup idea, I got the investment from my father through an OD in my name.

Now we get onto a call two days later, where they reveal the company QNet and makes me purchase 5L of stuff from their website and explained the business model which was to get other people from your knowing to buy products from this company and get commissions on the sale.

Continued……

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