Top Internet Frauds & Scams which Trap New Internet Users in India. Report by Complaints-India

There are thousands of websites operating across the world peddling illegal activities camouflaged as legal. The websites offer easy earnings and net users especially newbies fall for the bait. Complaints-India addresses the issue in its recent report.

The problem of new internet users falling prey to scamsters is acute in India since internet user addition is by millions, every year. The new users get trapped by scamsters easily. The scam websites run for few months. They will close down these and open similar websites with new URL, after duping few hundred users.

Its important that internet users get alerted and educated about criminal gangs which come up with schemes defraud them.

Based on user complaints, the major scams that manage to hook new internet users in India are as follows:

-Phishing Scams with Mail appearing to come from Genuine Website
-Fake Employment Offers
-Fake Investment Companies offering High Returns
-Click Ads Scam
-Paid Survey Scam
-Fake Online Home Jobs
-Fake Lottery Jackpot Offer
-Foreign Money Transfer Scam

Phishing Scams with Mail appearing to come from Genuine Website

Email could appear to come from say ICICI Bank asking to verify account. On click user is taken to a webpage looking exactly similar to ICICI website. User is asked to change password, submit mobile number etc . His user Id, password, mobile number etc gets stolen. The criminals then logs into bank account and transfers money. The mail could come from banks, or even Govt departments for example recently Income Tax Dept offering refund
The spammers also send email with “from” as Admin of Email service provider, asking to change password and even change security questions and many new users fall for this.

Fake Employment Offers

Mails offering employment in companies in India or abroad would request resume and other documents for verification. After this, user gets mail to remit fee for further action. Once fee is paid there will be no further communication.

Fake Investment Companies offering High Returns
These companies advertise in classified sections of news papers and in websites offering sky high returns. Users should understand that no legal business can give such returns. The fake companies operates for few months, paying users part money received from new ones. One fine day they simply disappear leaving customers in the lurch . Eg: City Limouzine.
Click Ads Scam
Clicking Ads on website to get paid is a criminal activity and many new users sign up without even knowing that they have become part of a criminal network. The scamsters offer large payments. But users will get tired after few days earning meager amounts. The minimum payout will be kept large. Most users will drop out after few days without getting payout. And that is what these companies want. They are always on the look out for new members.
Paid Survey Scam
Just imagine sitting and typing out forms and seeing few rupees added in your account for a days work. Virtually useless job which people will get fed up and get out in no time. Meanwhile, the scam companies would have surveys filled up and they may get paid by marketing companies. But the people who toil never get paid. The minimum payout will be such that users will get fed up and will stop working after few days.
Fake Online Home Jobs
There are thousands of home job companies which take initial advance from Rs.500 to Rs.5000 for joining. They will then send some crap CD or ask to down load some files and information. Within one or two days users will understand that the work offered is menial mess and is of no use to anyone. In fact the companies are just looking for the advance. After few days no one will respond to mails or calls and the home job dream will come to quick end!
Fake Jackpot Lottery Offer
Its surprising but true that people keep falling for Jackpot winning offers received by mails or SMS. They end up paying advance processing fees and after which the scamsters will be untraceable.
Foreign Money Transfer Scam
Just like in the case of Jackpot offers, many people fall prey to scam mails offering to pay large fee for help in transferring money. The trapped ones end up paying advances couple of times and then the communication channels will go dry.

Here is a selection compiled by Complaints-India.com of a bunch websites which are reported as fraud sites, by users.
365JOBS4U.com
500euro-mail.com
awsurvey.com
bestjobs-london.com
beyondgoogleads.com
bramahimpex.com
cash4clickingptc.com
cashbynetjobs.com
cashmailz.org
click4onlinejobs.com
corpscan.info
dollarGoldFund.com
dreamcash4u.com
Earnparttimejobs.com
earnrupaya.com
easycashptc.com
easypostjob4u.com
ecashdeals.com
elixirinteractive.com
europayinc.com
fastopportunities.com
greatnetcash.com
homejob4indians.com
hotelscombined.com
instantptr.com
itmatchonline.com
km-onlinehomejobs.blogspot.com
mahamantra.biz
marketkapial.com
moneypride.com
netcash2all.com
netjobplus.com
netsurveyjobs.com
Netsurveyjobs.com
online-home-jobs.com
onlinejobs-incom.com
onlinejobs-income.com
perfectptr.com
realtradeltd.com
reputationdefender.com
richptr.net
ripleSuccessOnline.com
royalforexfunds.com
smartguysngals.com
srilankanetjobs.com
time2rich.com
ukjobs4u.com
vaahoo.in
viewbestads.com
workathomeinus.com
zenithinfoonline.com
For More Information and user experiences View Report on Internet Frauds & Scams

Live Bomb in Kingfisher Flight. Dry run by Terrorists?

An explosive device, was found on a Kingfisher Airlines flight on Sunday morning in a major breach of security shortly after it landed in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The ground staff found the explosive wrapped in a newspaper during a routine check of Kingfisher IT 4731, after its 27 passengers had deplaned.

The Plane had reached Bangalore on Saturday night from Trivandrum and took off to Trivandrum on Sunday morning at 6.30 AMThe Security Agencies are trying to figure out when the Bomb was planted in the flight.

The possibilities are:

- Bomb was Planted in Trivandrum before the Flight Took off to Bangalore on Saturday

- Bomb was Planted in Bangalore before the Flight took off to Trivandrum on Sunday Morning

- Bomb was planted on Sunday Morning after the flight reached Trivandrum to test whether the flight would take off without the bomb being detected.

The fact that this low intensity device has been detected within cargo hold, points to clear and present danger to the air travelers in India. Definitely a terrorist organization is carrying out dry run to check whether and when the bomb would be detected.


They know that Indian Security system reacts only to events and the reaction tapers off within few days. After few weeks or months, they will look to smuggle in real bomb with timers.

Its high time that the Central Govt. puts in places Zero Tolerance Security arrangement at all airports with regard to passenger and cargo checks. There has to be biometric & video recording of all passengers, in-flight-staff, security & cargo staff connected with all flights as suggested by Complaints India, a Consumer Affairs Website.

Its likely that terrorists are in the process of infiltrating into flight staff or security agencies. Recent arrest of an IM operative who had undergone pilot training points to serious plan by terrorists to strike civil aircrafts flying in India.

Indian Government and Security Agencies need to face this truth and stand up to protect innocent travelers, rather than brushing the incident away, as a minor lapse.

Adsense Crash. Publishers Lose Money as Google Ad Network Continues to Breakdown

The unsatisfactory performance of Google Adsense Publishing system, the undisputed market leader, has been widely reported from across the world, during last week. The delivery of text, image and video Ads which are served by Google on content network, based on content relevancy has been found to be very erratic. Google seem to be unable to ensure reasonable uptime, if not the expected 100%.

The continuing woes of Google in setting right its Ad publishing system should give competitors like Yahoo, Adbrite, Fastclick etc a crack in the wall, to sneak in. Due to the break down, publishers are losing heavily, since millions of web pages are being visited by internet users with Google Adspace empty.

For enterprising competitors, Google AdSense Crash offers access to publishers who may wish to show Ads from others in space reserved for Google, when it takes the now customary longish naps.

Its observed that the average break down period could be as high as 5 hours per day. According to Cubestat, the average daily earnings from Adsense for a news based site like www.sify.com is US$4250 . A five hour Adsense breakdown translates to loss of US$27,445 per Month for sify.com!

Its time publishers woke up to the loss caused to them by Google’s inability to serve Ads, though Ad space is reserved for Google by publishers.

No prizes for guessing when the Google Ad network will go down again! The only thing that Google Adsense Publishers claim as consistent, is Google’s inconsistency!

“Complaints India” has carried out check on couple of active Google Ad publishers, to see how web pages look when the Google Ad Network breaks down, which off course is quite often!

On 13.March.2010, Google Adsense inventory, disappeared altogether from millions of websites at around 5.00 PM IST. The Ads returned at around 8.30 PM IST, after a 3.5 hour long nap!

View More with Screenshots of web pages without the usual Google ads at: http://www.complaints-india.com/Google-Adwords-Adsense-Networks-Crash-10005.php

Google Adwords, Adsense Networks Crash in India. No Ad delivery for hours together on most days

It may sound unbelievable! How could Google FAIL? Well, the fact is that Google has been pathetic during the last few weeks at least in India. Google Ad servers have crashed causing the otherwise omnipresent Google Ads to disappear from millions of web pages viewed in India.

The situation looks critical as on 11.03.2010, with very long breakdown extending several hours. During the last few weeks, Google the most widely used search engine which makes money by publishing content relevant text and image ads in millions of websites has been very erratic in serving Ads in India. Publishers, find Blank spaces in all websites where Ads should appear. The problem continues for hours before Ads reappear.

Incidentally, the problem do not seem to be due to shortage of Ad inventory. What is happening is total blackout during which time no Google Ad appears in millions of pages viewed in India, across all websites.

Its surprising that Google has not been able to attend to the issue though the problem has been simmering for weeks. View More at: Complaints India News at www.complaints-india.com