From the article: Top 5 Most Common Scams in India
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FRAUDSTER -- JAGDEEP GUPTA & SANTOSH NAN
- FRAUDSTER -- JAGDEEP GUPTA & SANTOSH NANDAN YADAV This is to bring to your notice of everyone to be careful of the account numbers given below- JAGDEEP GUPTA SBI A/C NO-32209687657 SANTOSH NANDAN YADAV SBI A/C NO.-20107659656(PAN NO: bbzpg0763r) these people are FRAUD and work as a network and can trap anyone by there stories(sometime by saying they are lottery officer or custom officers..) i had a very bad experience and i dont want anyone to go through that.Beware if anybody tells you to put money in these account.
- —Guest Anonymous
Scams in Hyderabad
- Hi I have bitter experiance with holiday package sellers and car brokers. I have lost 90000 repees in holiday packages and only one thousand repees with car broker. Three hours of conitinous talk and seven pages of benifits then take credit card get as much as possible finally we see only one benefit on the doucment. you never get back money. gone with the wind. car brokers- gives paper ad and take you to big building and take advance with out giving any id and then take the reamining with out giving any id and give papers and vehicle to get the title transaferred to your name. Hypothication clearence papers from bank are fake and you never get the title transfereed to your name consequently you never allowed get insurance . lose your peace of mind. beware of such deals and circulate this information to your friends and families you know otherwise they will get cheated one day . scammers are every where.
- —Guest Ramsay
internet scams
- well i was recently a victim of fraud. i had been getting so many calls from some weird numbers until i finally answered. i was said to have been approved for a 7000 dollar loan so i was excited about. The person talking sounded indian and so did the rest. sooner or later I was convinced into sending them money through western union. It was all a scam there was never no loan. these stupid indians stole 600 from me and they kept asking for more. I literally wasted everything I had on them. they pretend to work for finance companies, government grant companies, and even debt collectors. screw these stupid indians. I tought they were good people but not anymore.
- —Guest DAVID
scam by Jaipur auto driver/driver
- Most auto driver are over friendly with tourist (mainly with white women). A driver picks up a women (usually backpacker) from Jaipur train station and takes her to a hotel of his choice, where he gets commission. He would start complimenting, will invite for tea, and introduce to his family. He would slowly gain trust and spending night in hotel. She would expand her staying. She would never finds out that local driver cannot spend night in Jaipur hotel and most driver are married and have children. She would feel real love and warmth by him and family. He hops for long term girl friend, therefore every six months she would visit or send money or even open a shop. He would start saying to other tourist that he has girl friend in France or Germany, therefore he could gain trust with more tourist. A driver some times make two three girlfriends, so he can invite a girl to India in different time of the year. Cleaver right? Do not be surprise to know that their wives know and support
- —Guest nina
Jaipur auto/driver common scam
- Do not be fooled by Jaipur driver. They can be over friendly towards foreign women. They only interested in money and get visa. Most of them are married and children. Tourist can be taken to their family without finding out that driver have family. One can be fooled by driver and his family. If is possible, do not exchange phone number or email. As soon as you do , driver start emotionality blackmailing you asking money from you. This people just wants to make quick and easy money. You will be surprise to know that their women also support this kind of scam, therefore they can have easy life.
- —Guest nina
houseboat scams in kashmir
- Dear travellers, houseboats in kashmir are safe to stay. only book through travel companies which are registred by indan govt or j&k tourism.please dont book with the fake tourist information shops in various parts of delhi and don't get lured by touts in delhi.these people build rapport with the customer and decieve them in buying tours on very high prices, tanveer www.kashmir-ladakh-tourism.com
- —Guest houseboat scams
Risikesh gems
- There are 3 brothers who have a store in Laxman jhula Rishikesh, in the stairs to tapovan. They ask you to transport lots of gems to the west. first they ask you to bring a lot and you have to pay the insurance, then they go down and they offer to pay insurance so you let down our guard. They say you will get your money back both from them and the "buyer " in your country. When you get home your contact person in india will be "in jail" and out of reach. One of them is Raj or Sonny and has the name of his wife tattooed on his right forearm, his wife's name also starting with S. One of them is married to a japanese woman. They ask you to pay them a deposit, and they will pay you back the moment you get home. Then the deal is broken and they hardly understand english etc.
- —Guest Abe
Hotel Southern in NDL is a scam
- We have booked 4 deluxe rooms in Hotel Southern in NDL on Oct26 through AsiaWebDirect.com. When we checked in, they did not keep rooms for us, and no explanation but they sent us to another place claiming there was their another hotel building. Then it turned to be another hotel named Blue Bell, where the rates are lower. They are so greedy that they charged us exceeding the amount dealed with the AsiaDirectWeb. We then rejected the hotel but were left standing outside the hotel in a desperate nightmare and extremely tired as we arrived from Jaipur late that night and did not know where to go.
- —Guest Siri Yongpanichkul
Beware of discount offers on websites
- Recently i purchased a flight ticket on Cleartrip... i was supposed to enter a code to get a cash back after 4-5 days. No cash back was given even after a month... On enquiring i was told that i had not entered the code... i am 200% sure about entering the code... it's all a sham... you can never prove your point... Beware of cleartrip & their offers... CASH BACK LATER ON NEVER NEVER HAPPENS !!!
- —Guest AB
packing after making a purchase
- When you buy any goods, make sure that it is packed in front of you. If you are a tourist, it is possible that they may change the goods to a cheaper inferior quality. The Narulas of New Delhi tried this on me when I purchased a embroided cloth piece from them. Packing is done elsewhere.
- —Guest vijai deb
Scams and shameful shams
- This happened to me ..doing my usual morning walk around the empty Pushkar Lake during the time of the Camel Fair. Some young boy passes me and says "look your behind side" I didn't like the look of him anyway and kept walking but he insisted I had "dirt" on my clothes. Still moving, I checked my behind side and sure enough there was some sticky yukky stuff on my shirt. I covered it with my scarf and kept walking. Of course what I should have done was stop and deal with the stuff on my back giving them a chance to steal my camera! At least these guys used some porridge mix and not cowshit!
- —DiBundy
Offering to sell you Euro coins.
- Twice I had people "asking" me how much a Euro or 2-Euro coin was worth, and expressing willingness to exchange it for less than its market value. Don't bother. They're counterfeit.
- —Guest EWAdams
Scam - Zen Info Solutions
- The company named Zen Info Solutions in Chennai is a scam. They collect money from people promising them an assured income of 20,000 rupees per month. They don't even pay u a single penny. Instead, they will send you a notice asking you to pay them 12,000 rupees as they have undergone a loss. Please don't fall for them. I am writing this because I am one of the victims. Their office is located in Perembur.
- —Guest asmeen
More Indian Scams
- Hi, I've listed a few more Indian scams to be wary of at http://www.india-travel-secrets.com/scam-artist.html. The 'Delhi shoe shine' is particularly gross! PJ
- —Guest PJ
