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Four arrested for admission fraud

Azad Maidan police have arrested four persons for allegedly duping Rohit Agarwal, 19, of Rs2.37 lakh by promising him admission in a Bandra College.

Mohammed Sameer alias Raju Salim Goavala, 26, Mohammed Moiuddhin alias Rais Rafiq Surti, 24, Ezaj Amrelia, 20 and Abdul Kadir alias Salim Sheikh, 26, were arrested on charges of cheating, forgery and common intention on September 15.

Assistant inspector Vijay Powar, Azad Maidan police station, said that they recovered Rs1.02 lakh and Agarwal’s original certificates from Sheikh’s house in Govandi. Sub-inspector Prakash Pawar said that Agarwal, a resident of Mira Road, was desperate to do mechanical engineering from Rizvi College despite securing only 65% in the CET.
Therefore, on July 25, he contacted Amrelia through a friend Sayyed Sabbir, 20.

Agarwal was willing to pay Rs1.80 lakh to Amrelia, who had promised to get him admission by July 31. However, Amrelia later returned all his documents saying he (Agarwal) had very low marks.

Amrelia, Goavala and Surti, then decided to cheat Agarwal. “Goavala and Surti bought a new SIM card from a Pydhonie mobile shop and asked Amrelia to give their new number to the victim,” said Pawar. He said that Goavala and Surti also adopted pseudo names of Vishal Goavala and Jafar Surti, respectively. The duo then called Agarwal for a meeting on August 1, where they promised him admission on payment of Rs2.37 lakh (including Rs17,000 as college fees for six months).

On August 3, Surti’s girlfriend Ria alias Pooja collected Agarwal’s certificates from his Bandra residence.

The following day, Sheikh posing as Salim collected the money from the victim near Empire theatre at CST and handed him an admission receipt of Rizvi College.
But on August 28, when Agarwal went to the college he did not find his name in the admission list. When he contacted the college authorities they told him that the receipt was bogus.

He then filed a complaint with the Azad Maidan police.
“During interrogation, Amrelia said they had procured an old admission receipt from one Tariq. They then scanned it on the computer and after making a few changes gave it to Agarwal,” said senior inspector Prakash Shishupal.


Source: DNA

Delhi Metro MD smells a scam

In an attack on the private sector’s direct involvement in building metro rail in India, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) managing director E Sreedharan has hinted at a big political scandal in the Hyderabad Metro, and expressed concern at the slow pace of progress in the Mumbai Metro.

Mr Sreedharan has been credited with building a large metro network in Delhi, which started making operating profit from day one. Besides, he also ensured that all projects, being built at a cost of Rs 29,500 cr, would be completed before the deadline.

While Mumbai Metro-I is a joint venture between Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure and state-owned Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), the Rs 12,000-cr Hyderabad Metro project was recently bagged by a consortium led by Maytas Infra.

In a letter to the deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, dated September 11, 2008, DMRC’s managing director cautioned that build-operate-transfer (BOT) mode of building metro rail could backfire.

“The Hyderabad Metro project is being cited as a successful example of BOT approach. Here, I would like to caution that the example of Hyderabad Metro is quite misleading as the negative viability gap funding has resulted solely on account of 296 acres of prime land being made available to the BOT operator for commercial exploitation. This is like selling family silver. Apart from the fact that this might lead to a big political scandal sometime later, it is apparent that the BOT operator has a hidden agenda which appears to be to extend the metro network to a large tract of his private land holdings so as to reap a windfall profit of four to five times the land price,” the letter said.

SundayET has a copy of the letter (No DMRC/89/08) which was also sent to three other officials, including two in the Planning Commission. When contacted, a DMRC spokesperson refused to comment on the issue.

In the letter, the DMRC chief also questioned the private sector’s efficiency in handling metro projects. “World-wide the experience has been that no metro project has succeeded so far on BOT basis. ...Our sole example of Mumbai Metro-I has not given us the required confidence in the BOT route. Even after agreeing to a VGF (viability gap funding) payment of Rs 650 crore plus 26% equity (total government outflow of Rs 780 crore for a project cost of Rs 1936 crore), the project is moving at an extremely slow pace.

Source: ET

Dean suspended on fraud charges

It has taken nearly 21 years for the government to act on an allegation against an engineering college principal.

The government has finally written to Bangalore University to take appropriate action against the principal and dean of University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Venugopal K R, for allegedly producing a fake caste certificate at the time of joining the college.

The BU Syndicate on Friday decided to place Venugopal under suspension pending inquiry.

The university has constituted a three-member sub-committee under the chairmanship of J V Rudramuny to verify the allegations. BU registrar Sanjay Veer Singh said the sub-committee has been asked to submit its report in 15 days.

Source:TOI

Engineers suspended in water scheme scam

The government has suspended 20 engineers of the water resources department on charges of financial irregularities.

Water resources minister Basavaraj Bommai issued the orders on Thursday, after a preliminary inquiry found they were involved in irregularities to the tune of Rs 14.64 crore in the Bellary Nala irrigation scheme.

Three executive engineers, six assistant executive engineers, nine assistant engineers and three junior engineers have been suspended . The inquiry was initiated by the estimates committee of the legislature. The matter has been referred to the CoD.

Source: TOI

Uttar Pradesh fake currency scam: CBI takes over probe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the fake currency scam that was unearthed in the State Bank of India's (SBI) Domariyaganj branch in Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.

"A CBI team is slated to reach Lucknow on Wednesday and the state's Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials will brief them regarding the case and the proceedings till date," additional director general of police, (crime, Law and order), Brijlal said.

The scam was unearthed after the arrest of the cashier of the SBI Domariyaganj branch, Sudhakar Tripathi July 29, and Rs 30 million were found to be fake in the currency chest after the Reserve Bank of India scanned the notes.

"The case was referred to CBI about a month ago and till date the case was being jointly probed by the Special Task Force (STF) and the SIT," Brijlal added.

Besides the Domariyaganj case, two other fake currency cases, in Aligarh and Bijnore, were also referred to the CBI earlier.

"All these cases will be probed by the CBI," he added.

Meanwhile, in yet another seizure of fake currency in the state, the Kanpur police arrested four persons late Tuesday and recovered fake currency notes worth over Rs 100,000.

"Viresh Sharma, Avnish Kumar, Amar singh and Pankaj Bhadauriya were arrested from Vishnugarh locality. The notes are of the denomination of Rs 100 and Rs 500," superintendent of police, Prakash Tripathi said.

The police also seized the luxury car they were travelling in and they have confessed to buying the fake notes from a person in Etah district at sixty percent value, he added.

Source:TOI

Techies fall prey to job scam

At least 20 software engineers from various districts in the state on Monday met city police commissioner R Sekar and lodged a complaint against some persons who had cheated them after promising jobs with global IT giant IBM.

Most of the victims are untrained engineers who were attracted by the attractive pamphlets printed by the fraudsters. One of the victims, C Magesh, a native of Namakkal, was approached by Saravana Karthikeyan during an interview at a software company. Karthikeyan promised to get Magesh a job at IBM's global services in Chennai.

"He asked me to come to Chennai and meet a person at Rahat Plaza in Vadapalani. There I met a person who behaved as if he had close contacts with senior IBM officials. As per his instructions, I deposited Rs 49,000 in cash in an ICICI account in the name of Rohini Premkumar at Nanganallur . Similarly, my brother Karthik also deposited cash in the same account. I did not get any response from them for a while. When I contacted them, they claimed that the company's human resource department had already sent me an offer letter from their mail address. On September 12, I received the offer letter from 'IBM.' The offer letter carried the signature of D Merwyn, HR, IBM.

The salary structure was conatined in an attached letter ," Magesh told The Times Of India.

"As per the offer letter, my brother and I came to Chennai to accept our jobs at IBM. But the officials there denied having recruited software engineers recently. I saw several other people waiting on the verandah with similar letters. When we approached a HR person in the office, he verified all the offer letters and declared them to be fake.

He then asked us to approach the city police commissioner and lodge a complaint ," Magesh said.

Following this, the victims met R Sekar and urged him to take initiate action against the fraudsters. The petition was forwarded to a senior police officer for further inquiry.

Meanwhile, Sunetra Banerjee, a senior HR official at IBM, Bangalore told The Times Of India: "We are looking into the issue. We are concerned about fraudsters using the reputation of the IBM. Several youngsters have fallen prey to the fraudsters and we never encourage mediators for job placements at any level."

Source:TOI

CBI chargesheets UP Home Secy in recruitment scam

The CBI filed a chargesheet against Uttar Pradesh Home Secretary Mahesh Kumar Gupta and two others for alleged manipulation in selecting candidates for state's Information department in 1998 and taking ‘illegal gratification’.

The chargesheet was filed in the designated CBI court at Lucknow against Gupta, 1987 batch IAS officer, Prabhat Kumar Sinha, a Provincial Civil Services officer and the then Additional Director and Raj Gopal Singh Verma, the then Deputy Director of UP Information Department.

According to the chargesheet, Gupta, during his tenure of Director of Information, was heading a committee which would make appointment for Group "C" in the Information department.

The CBI alleged that Verma, who was appointed as nodal officer by the Committee, tabulated the results of the written test in a computer and later took a copy of the same in a floppy disk and loaded the same at his home computer.

"Thereafter, they started contacting the prospective candidates and collected illegal gratification from them for selecting them for the posts," the chargesheet claimed and annexed statements of number of candidates recorded by the CBI that they had paid money to the Deputy Director when he visited their places.

"In the process, against the demand of Rs 20 lakh by Gupta for selecting the candidates for the post out of the amount collected by them, a sum of Rs 6.5 lakh was handed over by Verma to Sinha, who along with a witness went to the residence of Gupta and paid the same to him," it said.

After such manipulation and allegedly receiving bribe, the list of successful candidates so selected was prepared and put up after being duly approved by Gupta but was shot down by the then Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.

Real estate firm's MD held for fraud

The managing director and proprietor of a real estate company, allegedly involved in cheating more than 5000 people through a pre-launch scheme, was arrested by the crime branch of Delhi Police from Mumbai on Monday. Accused D K Aggarwal (47) had been declared proclaimed offender by the Delhi High Court and carried a reward of Rs 50,000 for his arrest in 13 cases of cheating and forgery.

CA Aggarwal had been absconding after the fraud came to light last year. He floated a company called Laxmi Vatika Limited with its office in Connaught Place. Soon afterwards the company offered pre-launch options in various housing projects at Dehradun, Mumbai, Mohali and Patna.

Aggarwal, who once worked with the JVG Group, a company involved in a Rs 172 crore scam in 2000, adopted a different modus operandi this time. He issued advertisements promising a high quality of life in the proposed townships. The investors were assured that the company had the required land, licence and registration certificate.

"In reality, the company had no land, licence or papers and all the promises were false to cheat gullible investors. No permission was sought by the company from the concerned authorities for setting up of the proposed townships and the company had no authority to collect money from the investors," said joint commissioner of police (crime and railways) Alok Verma.

Meanwhile, the company collected money for the projects from investors in the range of Rs 51,000 to Rs 7 lakh but made no allotments. Aggarwal then disappeared, prompting investors to sue him and his company. While on the run, he used 33 SIM cards to avoid being caught.

The police kept track of Aggarwal's movements, and the cases against his company were transferred to the EOW of Delhi Police. Local intelligence revealed that he moved to Mumbai where he lived in different houses and hotels.

The police traced the accused car with its Delhi registration number in Mumbai and he was arrested there.

Source :TOI

sOURCE: toi

Medical check-up exposes inspector-selection scam

The Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has landed in a mess again. Medical check-up of candidates selected for the post of Motor Vehicle Inspectors (MVIs) has revealed glaring discrepancies in the selection process.

At least 15 of the 75 candidates, who underwent medical tests on Monday and Tuesday, have failed to pass the required physical standards. This number is likely to go up as 70 more candidates are yet to take the test on Wednesday.

On March 18, KPSC published a provisional list of 145 candidates selected as MVIs. The list was subject to a court judgment, since the selection process had been challenged.

The controversy erupted when the government decided to amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, to frame rules for selection. Even as the case was being heard, KPSC published a list of candidates. This was challenged in court on the grounds that the list contained names of candidates whose applications had been rejected due to reasons like non-meeting of physical standards, non-possession of driving licence, etc. It was alleged that at least 30 candidates had produced fake medical certificates to prove they met the required physical standards.

The department wanted to complete recruitment because of the shortage of inspectors. Since many issues had been challenged in court, the department decided to conduct a detailed medical checkup of all selected candidates at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital.

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26 candidates came; 4 failed to meet the minimum height requirement ; 2 had colour blindness Entire process video-recorded and candidate's signature taken on medical report

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Transport commissioner Bhaskar Rao monitored the medical check-up and said reports had been kept in sealed covers. "If someone challenges this process in court, then we'll produce both video evidence and the medical reports,'' he said.

Source: TOI

Computer education scam busted

Here is a lucrative scheme. Invest Rs 52,000 to get Rs 2.10 lakh in return over five years and the career of a teacher. This scheme had trapped many young aspirants who wanted to become computer teachers in government - run schools in various districts.

CID (Crime)'s Economic Offences Cell have arrested Haresh Trivedi, the main accused in Rs 25 crore scam from Chikhli in Vadodara. According to CID police officials, Trivedi had formed Blossom Charitable Trust to provide free computer education to students of class V to VII in June 2005. He also bagged a contract from the state education department.

"Trivedi then formed another trust and promised that he would install two computer systems and a printer in every school. However, to get the computer teachers for more than 150 schools, Trivedi made a plan. He called upon aspiring teachers to apply for with a form-fee of Rs 2,000," said BJ Joshi, inspector of CID (crime).

Trivedi formed Blossom Education Services Private Limited (BESPL) - for this scam. When the applications flooded in, Trivedi then asked for a bribe of Rs 50,000 for the job. The aspirants had to pay Trivedi by two post-dated cheques in the name of BESPL.

"As there were many unemployed graduates in the village, they borrowed the money from their relatives, sold off land and even pawned jewellery. All of them wanted a secure job," said Joshi.

Source:TOI

CBI chargesheets UP Home Secy in recruitment scam

The CBI on Monday filed a chargesheet against Uttar Pradesh Home Secretary Mahesh Kumar Gupta and two others for alleged manipulation in selecting candidates for state's Information department in 1998 and taking ‘illegal gratification’.

The chargesheet was filed in the designated CBI court at Lucknow against Gupta, 1987 batch IAS officer, Prabhat Kumar Sinha, a Provincial Civil Services officer and the then Additional Director and Raj Gopal Singh Verma, the then Deputy Director of UP Information Department.

According to the chargesheet, Gupta, during his tenure of Director of Information, was heading a committee which would make appointment for Group "C" in the Information department.

The CBI alleged that Verma, who was appointed as nodal officer by the Committee, tabulated the results of the written test in a computer and later took a copy of the same in a floppy disk and loaded the same at his home computer.

"Thereafter, they started contacting the prospective candidates and collected illegal gratification from them for selecting them for the posts," the chargesheet claimed and annexed statements of number of candidates recorded by the CBI that they had paid money to the Deputy Director when he visited their places.

"In the process, against the demand of Rs 20 lakh by Gupta for selecting the candidates for the post out of the amount collected by them, a sum of Rs 6.5 lakh was handed over by Verma to Sinha, who along with a witness went to the residence of Gupta and paid the same to him," it said.

After such manipulation and allegedly receiving bribe, the list of successful candidates so selected was prepared and put up after being duly approved by Gupta but was shot down by the then Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.

Source: Indian Express

Corporate Accounts in India Top Target for Phishers

A new trend has been witnessed in the Indian cities during the last two years where cyber criminals are attacking corporate (salary) accounts with e-banking facility, as reported by timesofindia on August 31, 2008.

The problem started in the mid-2006 and the number of fraud cases is continuously growing in the country. In 2007, Bangalore Cyber Crime Cell reported around 47 fraud cases, while this year till August 2008, 33 cases have already been reported. The net effect of these frauds would be on 130 accounts spreading throughout the country.

Moreover, phishers are targeting salary accounts of various companies that have corporate accounts in private banks through computer virus, malicious software and malware. Usually, phishers target only those private banks that have the maximum number of corporate accounts in Bangalore. Officials of Cyber Crime Cell said that the root of the menace is located in Nigeria where a hackers group is launching phishing attacks via a proxy server.

The phishing tactic adopted by hackers is very simple. Account holders receive e-mails that direct them to update their details for account upgradation. These e-mails appear official and ask users to confirm their e-mail addresses by visiting a site where user's account information, PIN details and passwords are sought. As the user provides these details, his account is compromised.

Further, phishing has evolved as a serious problem in India. Leading banks or their clients were mainly targeted by phishers last year. Symantec, an online security firm, reveals that India is the 14 largest phishing Website hosting country, with Mumbai at the top for hosting phishing sites (38%), followed by Delhi (29%) and Bangalore and Chennai both accounting for 12%.

However, it should be noted that banks do not ask for password or other sensitive data through e-mails. Awareness should be spread among people using e-banking services. Moreover, people get such e-mails that asking for sensitive information should immediately contact with the concerned bank.

In August 2008, a senior citizen from Chennai, age 72 and retired bank manager, lost his lifetime savings Rs 21 Lakhs (US$ 47.5 thousands) after giving away his bank details unintentionally to phishers by opening a malicious e-mail.

Karnataka burying fraud of Rs 30,000 cr

adma Bhushan Jnanpeeth awardee U R Ananthamurthy in his petition filed in the Supreme Court has alleged that a fraud worth over Rs 30,000 crores is being buried by Karnataka government in collusion with Nice Limited, the firm implementing Bangalore-Mysore corridor project in Karnataka.

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam today fixed September 17 for hearing of the petition by a bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat.

Senior Counsel M N Krishnamani and Prashant Bhushan, counsel for the petitioner, mentioned the petition before the apex court for urgent hearing.

According to the petitioner, Nice Ltd and Karnataka government colluded and obtained the orders from the apex court and the Karnataka High Court by suppressing relevant documents and played fraud on the courts.

The eminent Kannada writer has further alleged that the land to be returned by Nice Ltd to the government was fraudulently changed from 14255.7 acres to 11966 acres thereby, giving 2289 acres of land to Nice to be sold by them to make profits through the real estate business.

Nice had been given the contract to construct the Bangalore-Mysore express highway having five townships on 5937.3 acres of land which was fraudulently increased to 8227 acres.

The petitioner has prayed to the apex court to set aside the decisions of 12th and 13th Empowered Committee.

Mr Ananthamurthy has also prayed to the court to direct the respondent not to proceed further and give effect to the Bangalore-Mysore express highway project except as originally conceived and upheld in Somasheker Reddy's case.

Scamsters clone ICICI Bank website

Scamsters seem to be giving bankers a tough time. After benami account scam, banks now have to deal with a new kind of cyber crime called 'phishing'.

Phishing is a fraudulent way of acquiring credit card, personal identification numbers and banking passwords using Internet and email by masquerading as a trusted source.

ICICI Bank filed a complaint with Bandra Kurla Complex police station on February 7 after its customers complained about being asked to confirm their account details through a seemingly innocuous e-mail ID (icici@icicibank.-com).

When the cyber crime cell began investigating, they found that a scamster had managed to get hold of customer details and used it to purchase goods on the Internet.

ICICI Bank website had also been cloned. At the cloned site, www.iciciibank.net, you could buy everything, from travel to financial services, gifts & computers. It also offered free online gambling and education facility.

Source:TOI

Forensic lab official committed fraud: CBI

Facing criticism from the Kerala High Court for its handling of CDs containing reports of narco test of the suspects in the Sister Abhaya case, the CBI on Monday told the court that an official of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Bangalore had manipulated the CDs and sought action against her.

The submission in this regard was made by CBI standing counsel when the case came up before Justice V Ram Kumar.The body of Sister Abhaya, an inmate of St Pius convent at Kottayam, was found in the well of the convent in 1992 and the case was later handed over to CBI for investigation.The CBI in its submission to the court today alleged that Dr S Malathy, an Assistant Director of the laboratory, had manipulated the CDs containing reports of narco-analysis test of three suspects in the case at her residence. The time code on the CDs showed 6.31 am whereas the lab opens only by 10 am, the CBI counsel said.

On August 26, the court rapped the investigating agency accusing it of making a "false statement" over the number of CDs it received from FSL.The CBI counsel accused Dr Malathy of playing fraud and said the investigating agency was ready to subject the three suspects--two priests and a nun for narco analysis test again.CBI DYSP R K Aggarwal in his written submission informed the court that properties of three files in the CD had shown that the file was created/modified on October 17 last year at at 7.28 am, Oct 22 at 9.35 am and Oct 23 at 6.31 am respectively.

These files are 254 MB, 239 MB and 100 MB respectively and adding to 593 MB, which can be written in a single CD. Moreover, the CD was the same that was handed over to CBI Inspector L N Chourdhary in a sealed cover which was submitted in the court, Aggarwal said.

Source:PTI

Parking scam is exposed

Vehicle owners seems to be paying much more than what parking contractors are supposed to collect

When Ganesh Desai, a youth from Girgaum, parked his bike outside Mumbai Central station for less than an hour, he thought it will cost him Rs1, as per the rule. But he was charged Rs5 and the receipt denied. His resistance turned into a skirmish with the attendant, who eventually denied parking to Ganesh.

Like Ganesh, every biker and vehicle owner face the flouting of the pay-and-park rules by contractors, but only few motorists realise that they are being cheated. Activists in this field feel that motorists are being looted off lakhs of rupees per day.

Mohammed Afzal, an activist with the Welfare Organisation for Road Safety and Prevention, an NGO, went inspecting some of the pay-and-park lots across the city, and found major flouting by contractors. In some cases, the vehicle owners were charged anything between Rs20 and Rs80 for one hour against the tarriff of Rs8 per hour. People, unknowing to the actual rates, simply pay what an attendant asks for as most of them don’t know the charges or don’t bother to enquire with the attendants about them.

BMC’s tender compliance categorically mentions that the contractor should display the tariff card in such a manner and form that it is easily visible to motorists. Many a times, contractors don’t bother to put up such boards, and even if it exists, he ensures that they are not easily seen. In some cases, the rates mentioned have purposely been blurred or blackened.


Source: DNA Mumbai

A New SCAM - WWW.Earn45K.com

Scamsters always come up with new ponzi and pyramid schemes. Dictionary definition for Ponzi schemes is “a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.”

www.Earn45k.com from a company called Cosmos Infomedia of Mumbai, India is definitely a scam. Cosmos Infomedia calls itself “The Home Based Business Development And Research Centre”. Earn45K is a mail order businees scheme, where you will have to first register as an employee of the company and then send out mail for promotions of products. The company says it will train its newly registered employees and then send them all the required materials for sending out promotions by postal mail. All this is possible only after you send them the Rs.586 ($14) to enroll your name in their employees list. As per the info posted on www.earn45k.com,

REGARDING THE WORK: - As the company is dealing with different types of MAIL ORDER PUBLICATIONS & BOOKS, everyday it is recruiting people for work. After becoming the registered Employee of the company, you\’ll be provided with the necessary material & kit, which you\’ll need to start MAIL ORDER BUSINESS (MOB) with that kit, you\’ll be given some important papers forms etc. and all the information regarding how to start MOB. All you\’ve to do is write/type something about the company\’s product, so that its demand increases, these letters are called PROMOTIONAL LETTERS. The company will provide all the information to write the promotional letter (You don’t have to write the promotional letter every time, you can take a photocopy of one successful promotional letter), after writing the promotional letter you have to attach the promotional letters with the other papers and forms of the company, put it in the envelope write the address and post it.

TO WHOM YOU\’LL POST LETTER: - Dear customer the material & book which you\’ll get from our head office will give you all the information about the list of people to whom you\’ll send these letters. A dealer gets around 100 to 200 addresses every day. Surprisingly, You don\’t have to search for people everyday. So don\’t Worry for the addresses, just read all the material & books carefully, which you will recieve within 20 days.just follow all the instructions given in the cosmos guidelines.

POSTAGE STAMP & ENVELOPE COST: - Don\’t worry for any postage stamp and envelope cost. There are different methods of doing the business wherein you would receive the envelopes along with the stamps free of cost. All these methods are explained in detail in the business kit. Here everything is arranged for you and that\’s why it is the best part time job ever found which people like to do. In the starting at least 3 to 4 hrs. a day will require for understanding the work, and there is no end for this business. You can start and stop it whenever you want. Good thing is that no one wants to stop because it\’s very PROFITABLE.

FOR WHAT YOU\’LL PAY Rs. 586/-: - Dear customer, we\’re taking Rs.586/- from you to enroll your name in the employees list of the company as a registered MOB employee which needs many processing\’s, and also for the important materials and books containing vital information regarding peoples addresses and how to get free postage stamp etc. and many important information which you will need to start MOB WITHIN 20 DAYS.

All this information has the makings of a classic scam. Many people across the world have already fallen for this and lost their money. A google search will come up with many blogs and websites explaining how earn45k scams everyone. one such forum where i found affected people discussing about this scam is on Rediff.com.

Another indication that this is a fraud scheme is the contact info on the WhoIS page of www.earn45k.com. Here is the contact info from the WhoIs page of www.earn45k.com

earn45k
clifton ( Email address protected from spam harvesters)
club of velsao,Irani bldg,RNo .43
mumbai
Maharashtra,400010
IN
Tel. +022.640000

Mumbai probably had 6 digits for a local landline number more than 5 years ago. This contact information is completely different from the contact address on the earn45k.com website.

If making money was really so easy, wouldn’t everyone just do this and nothing else. There are no shortcuts to making money in this world and if someone is promising you exactly that then they are in the business of scamming people. Please stay away from all these scam sites and save your hard earned money.