Corel — Corel Fraud

Address: Somewhere in Mumbai. They don't reveal their location.

Website: www.corelindia.co.in

I have recently inquired about CorelDRAW price with one of the resellers in India (V. M. Infomedia); Contact Person - Mr. Prabhash Mishra @ [protected] [protected]@gmail.com. They sent me a PO. I felt the price is too much so I didn't take much interest. Mr. Prabhash Mishra kept messaging and asking if I will close the deal or not. He gave his Corel head from Mumbai Mr. Virendra Desai @ [protected] to talk and then I had a call with him and said I will look with other vendors if they can provide me a good price. But Mr. Prabhash kept messaging and asking if I will close the deal or not because he was getting pressure from Mumbai to get the deal close. I got irritated and canceled the deal. Now after 13-16 days, I got a call (+[protected] from a lady Anita Koli claiming to be from the Compliance department of Corel Corporation. She accused me that I'm using CorelDraw on 6 instances. I said I'm not using any of their CorelDraw. She asked me to revert to email. Here's the email:

Greetings from Corel Corporation!!!
My name is Anita Koli, representative of Corel Corporation in India, as part of compliance team that deals with software legalisation of Corel products used in India.
Corel Corporation is a leading software developer based out of Canada with major offices in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, China and Japan. Corel is copyright owner of various products including but not limited to CorelDRAW Graphic Suite, Painter, Particle Shop, CorelDRAW TechnicalSuite, Paint Shop Pro, Video Studio, PDF Fusion, WordPerfect Office, WinZip etc.
This mail is with regards to the installations / instances of propriety software of Corel Corporation installed / used in your organization. We seek your kind co-operation to help us with the license details of CorelDRAW Graphic Suite software you have procured in the past along with serial keys & invoice details. Technically each installation/instance must be backed with lawfully acquired right to use for each product/s as per Corel's licensing policy.
Your revert will also help us to validate your Genuine Licenses procured and address the gap in terms of licenses. As you may experience Genuine License do boost over productivity also provides access to technical support team to solve your queries. It mitigates risk on your business, which is responsible towards your customers. The use and installation of legal software tends to be easier and less risky regarding the IT security & you act in accordance with law.
We therefore request your support to get licenses regularized.

Please feel free to revert back for any further clarifications or details.

Thanks and Regards,
Anita Koli
Compliance Executive
Corel Corporation
p - +[protected]
e – anita.[protected]@corelindia.co.in
w - www.corelindia.co.in