Today we are not going to post any trick, we thought of spreading awareness about one big ongoing scam on the Internet and on phone calls, both.
With our ever evolving Internet, it is always a target for scamming and frauds. With the open nature of the Internet and technology anyone can create a professional looking website and trick people, especially not-so-tech-savvy person, into giving them their personal credentials such as password, credit card details and anything they can use to make profit out of cheating.
For example the Blogger.com site:
2. If you are not still sure, then it is always good to consult an expert, they might easily be able to advice you about any specific site.
3. Search the Internet if other has complained or wrote about that website or contest.
Always be aware of these scams and also share this post with your friends and families to let them know about this in case if they ever get calls from this company again, well fake company!
With our ever evolving Internet, it is always a target for scamming and frauds. With the open nature of the Internet and technology anyone can create a professional looking website and trick people, especially not-so-tech-savvy person, into giving them their personal credentials such as password, credit card details and anything they can use to make profit out of cheating.
ShopOn4U Is A Complete Scam/Fraud
ShopOn4U[dot]com uses smart tricks to cheat people and asks them to send them money to claim their prizes. They work this way:
- Get details of a customer from any website (snapdeal, flipkart etc.) or forum probably by the comments they leave, it becomes a trace for them.
- Then they calls the customer and tells them they are in top customers and it would require you to register on their site with and pay a few thousand bucks to claim it
- If you do that you are done, your money is gone and if you ask them about how they got your details they would try to mislead you by using vague terms assuming the customer is a web-illiterate person.
A huge population of the Internet in India aren't aware of such scams and how to differentiate a genuine and fraud service or site and they use the advantage of this fact to make those innocent people send them money to claim attractive but fake prizes.
The analysis, how they would try to trick you
Anybody can set-up a website and put it online, even you can create a website like that and then call those people to transfer money to your account and run away with it.
I knew they are fraud when for the first time I heard they are calling from a company called "ShopOn4U", I had never heard its name before nor Snapdeal has any affiliation with them, so it was sure they somehow steal the data to get my contacts detail.
They called me through this numbers 1165545842 and then from another 1165028906, the first number has been already reported spam for more than 80 times, and the second number seems to be new.
The first thing I did was to search their number on Truecaller and it came out that it is reported as fake already.
A few other users who complained about it
Visit these links to see what others said about this ShopOn4U scam:
- http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.shopon4u.com - The first review is probably done by their own people to make it look genuine.
- http://www.consumercomplaints.in/bycompany/shopon4ucom-a350097.html - A complaint report. Many people lost their money.
- http://www.grahakseva.com/complaints/191765/shopon4ucom-ecommerce-fraud - Representatives of the site will search the internet if people have posted their experience and ask them to change their views.
- http://www.scamadviser.com/is-shopon4u.com-a-fake-site.html - The website cannot be trusted.
They will try to convince you that they are genuine
Next time they called I told them that they are exposed after me and the contest and the site is a fraud, but instead of hanging-up the call they kept on convincing me that they are genuine, but they didn't know I was not a computer-illiterate or web-illiterate to get tricked by them.
I told them not to call me again but they started talking too unprofessionally that I had to hang-up the call.
A few days later they called me again and I told them I didn't believed they are genuine and I asked them how did they get my details from Snapdeal, and she started defining me how e-commerce works which was completely wrong and misleading!
But if anybody who doesn't know enough about the Internet might easily get tricked into these scam. So never ever believe in any of this fraud contests and website unless you are sure that you are supposed to win some contest, whereas these morons would tell you that you are the top consumers. I just purchased on mobile since 6 months and they made me the #6 on their country wide contest, how idiotic.
A few checks you must do
1. Check the website's SSL certificate. Genuine big-name websites which requires security such as these contest and shopping sites usually has SSL certificates on their domain and the web address is followed by 'https://'
For example the Blogger.com site:
2. If you are not still sure, then it is always good to consult an expert, they might easily be able to advice you about any specific site.
3. Search the Internet if other has complained or wrote about that website or contest.
Always be aware of these scams and also share this post with your friends and families to let them know about this in case if they ever get calls from this company again, well fake company!
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