We all hear about dream offers don’t we? Some people like me, wait for one. Stupidity!!
In December 2010, Christmas and New Year just around the corner, I get a call, a proposal, for a dream holiday for my family. A “Shop Today Holiday package”, 3days and 2 nights free stay and meal in any where in India promising a free gift, either an HP mini Laptop or a Sony Home Theater. Said it was a limited promotional offer. Great website http://www.shoptoday.co.in/ , full of dreams and promises….great offer for only Rs.7999/-.
I transferred the amount in two online transactions. Got Email receipts too confirming the payments from “CCAvenue” (www.ccavenue.com ), their partners. However, till date I neither got my package, no voucher, no home theatre, no much responses, no one picks up my calls now and my mails gets no reply.
In the Internet if you just Google “Shop Today Complaints” you will find a lot of conned customers who spent thousands, a few in Lakhs. Lots in online consumer forums as well. A lot of people seeking legal action and their money back.
This is a small/little effort, a forum for to join and share, to highlight this issue so we can decide what can be done about “Shop Today” and partners like “CCAvenue”. Through Blogs and mediums like Facebook and Twitter, let us make people aware about these kinds of Fraudsters. We can also write to Newspapers, electronic media, to companies and government agencies associated with them, national/international, everywhere we can.
They still have their websites and business fully active, flourishing. Making tall claims and conning people. Who knows if this money goes to wrong hands, maybe a source for terrorists acting against our country? Somehow, I feel that these people are nothing more but Cyber Terrorists and must be brought to justice.
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