Bag It Today — Cheating/Fraud - Settlement amount

Two years back i have received a call from Sand Shopping Hub Noida, telling me that i have to invest some amount then i will be getting the winning amount. By this way on believing their words i have invested total of amount Rs.- 3, 00, 000/- step by step. Afterwards nothing has happened and i tried calling on the provided numbers repeatedly but i didn't got any response from there end. Suddenly after 2 years span of time, in the month of March 2015, i received a call from Bag it today saying that whatever the investment you have done towards the Sand Shopping Hub, they will help me to get it back as a settlement amount against the fraud. They asked me the evidence of transaction and other phone recording if any had with the Sand Shopping Peoples. They told me total of amount Rs.- 9, 68, 000/- as a settlement amount. In this regards i have received a mail from [protected]@bagittodaysettlement.com that this is the amount, please accept that and acknowledge to go ahead for processing. Than i received call from Mr. Ajay Sharma or Malhotra asking me to deposit the amount Rs.- 35, 000/- as a processing fee for the settlement amount. At the same time i asked them clearly that is there any further payment i need to made in this regards. They told me no. Than believing on their words i have made the payment of Rs.- 35, 000/-. They asked me to do the transfer of said amount through NEFT account. They ave provided me the Yes bank Account. After two days i received call from Mr. Shobhit shrivastave that i need to further make a payment of Rs.- 96, 800/- as a processing fee and ITR filing process. They have provided me the NOC letter on Bag it today letter head. So i thought they are authentic people. This also i agreed to pay. That time i dont have the sufficient money with me so i arranged from my friends and given to them. They asked me to transfer the same amount through NEFT transaction into SBI A/C no. - [protected] (BIT SERVICES). After making the apyment immidiately i received the call from Shobhit telling me that i will be receiving call from ICICI bank person for payment settlement transfer into my ICICI account. I received a call from ICICI person Sohan Mittal, He told me i need to further deposit 10% of total settlement amount. than i thought these people may be cheating to me. Than i called Shobhit and told that he didnt informed me about this thing that i have to pay further 10% of amount. so he gave me assurance that once you make the payment, this was last transaction you have to pay then within three days the settlement amount will be transfer to your account. He has again provided me the invoice in Bag it today letterhead about the transaction amount what i have made. Once i have made the payment of Rs.- 1, 19, 688/- Rs. i.e. 10% of 9, 68, 000/- in to the same SBI account as above. Till date i have not received any call from there end or reply on mail, even i tried calling them on there phone numbers it was telling not in existence or out of coverage area. I have wrote many mails but i didnt get any reply on mail as well. So this is big learning for me and i request all peoples who ever will read this, please dont believe on such type of calls. they will cheat you also like me. I am writing this with whole of my heard as i am really depressed and many time i thought of doing suicide but anyhow i tackle my self. As i have borrowed these amount from my friends and they are asking me back the same to refund them. I believe on GOD, so hoping that he will take care and definitely he will punish them whoever has done fraud with me. because i never hurt anybody till date or never cheat also. I am pure religious person having lots of faith on GOD. Devendra K. Dewangan
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Dear Mr. Dewangan.


This is with reference to your complaint registered on https://www.consumercomplaints.in

We would like to inform you that we are not related to such calls.

We keep informing to our customers about such calls and beware about fraud call information already mentioned on our website, kindly find below mentioned link:

http://www.bagittoday.com/faces/jsp/fraud.jsp

We would also like to inform you that it has come to our attention that certain individuals with an intention to cheat the general public are using our Brand Name/ Trade Marks “India Today Group”, "India Today Book Club" and “Bag It Today”.

These fraudsters are requesting donations/deposit some amount from people for fictitious charitable activities/cash prize and in return are falsely promising winning amount/various gifts like Laptops, LCDs & Mobile phones etc.

Please note that India Today Group/ Bag It Today do not solicit any amount towards charity/cash prize and we do not promise any free gifts in return.

Please note that we at India Today/ Bag It Today do not follow the practice of asking customers to directly deposit cash in some bank account. We accept payment through the following modes only:

1. Credit Card
2. Debit Card
3. Net Banking
4. Cash on Delivery

We request our customers to safeguard yourself from any such fraud and do not share your account details.

For any further query or assistance, please feel free to write us on [protected]@bagittoday.com

Thanks & Regards,
Online Support (Bag it today)
After discussion had with the team, they agreed to make the settlement whatever i have paid to them and hence it will be understand as closed and it will not implicate any one o[censored]s including me and Bag It Today as well. Requesting team to make the settlement amount as earliest and close the issue.
Dear Mr. Chandra Mohan,
I appreciate your response. Just wanted to know from your end the belowmentioned things..
1. Is the SBI bank account no. [protected] in the name of BAGIT is not belongsto you?
2. Bag it today settlement team is present at your organization or not?
3. Is the mail id "[protected]@bagittodaysettlement.com" is belong to yourorganization or not?
4. Mr. Sobhit Srivastava with mail id sobhit.[protected]@bagittoday.com havingmobile no.-[protected] is the employee in your organization or not?

And for your kind information i have asked for the amount for making settlementfor the amount previously i have invested in Sand shopping hub noida and lateron they didnt turned up. BAg it today settlement team including Mr. Sobhitsrivastava and Ashish malhotra asked me to transfer the amount in abovementioned SBI account by NEFT through net banking. As you said in yourjustification mail that you are not asking to deposit cash amount in anyaccount, so i have not done any transaction through cash deposite. All the fundtransfer happened by means of NEFT and net banking only.

They asked me first 35, 000 than 10 % of settlement amount for ITR filing andthan 1, 19, 644 Rs for processing and dispersement and than 49, 000 & 47, 000RS in parts for generating the code for fund transfer in my account.

So looking into this i feel this is cheating only and i have all the voicerecording and written proofs with me including your company letter headdeclaration and invoices and mail communication as well.

Requesting team to stop cheating peoples like us and resolve this issue asearliest and make the refund only my amount which i have paid i.e. 4, 00, 000/-Rs towards the bag it today settlement amount.

I will be very much thankful to you if could help me to get resolution.
Anticipating your prompt reply and support in this regards.

Regards
Devendra
I thought of closing this issue once they agreed to make settlement, but now it looks like they are not at all interested to make settlement. Again they are asking to pay 170, 000/- Rs for deleting this compliant from the web.
Really the Bag IT Today peoples are cheater and also the company. My sincere request to all customers while delealing with them be aware of all these fraud activities.
Can you explain in detail, what you have done after losing that much amount to them?
One of my friend is in your position now. He has deposited 64k in their account without informing any o[censored]s.
He is again asking us to deposit 20k in OUR account, so that he can make card to card transfer.
I know that they are again plotting to exploit another 20k.

I would like to know whether you have approached police after this issue? And what was their response? Did you file FIR on this account?
No dear, ealrlier thay agreed and afterwards they are asking me again to deposit 170, 000/- in their same account for delating this complaint from the data base. They are telling that you have made complaint which need to be deleted from the dtatbase as it is accesible to every one and this is spoiling the name of company. So i declined to pay the same. I am now planning to make complaint at police or online to AKOSA team for the same for filing the case against them.
Dear Mr.Devendra,

No such calls were made by our end.These are fraud calls which is exploiting our brand name.

kindly go through the below link:

http://www.bagittoday.com/faces/jsp/fraud-alert.jsp

Thanks and Regards

online support
Bagittoday
Dear Team,
If that is the case than please let me clear some of my doubts from your end.
1. Is the SBI bank account no. [protected], Birhana Road, Kanpur branch in the name of BAGIT is not belongs to you?
2. Is the Yes bank account no.[protected], Bisanpura, Sector-58, Noida branch in the name of ITBC is not belongs to you?
3. Is the bank account no.[protected], in the name of ITBCs is not belongs to you?
4. Bag it today settlement team is present at your organization or not?
5. Is the mail id "[protected]@bagittodaysettlement.com" is belong to yourorganization or not?
6. Mr. Sobhit Srivastava with mail id sobhit.[protected]@bagittoday.com havingmobile no.-[protected] is the employee in your organization or not?

Dear Team,
Till date no resolution has been provided from them in this regards. Requesting the consumer complaint team to ask them to provide the amount at the earliest.

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