[Resolved]  Abn Amro Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Barclays Bank — Harassment

Address:Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

This is to bring to your knowledge crucial facts related to a fake recovery racket running in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and New Delhi. The modus operandi of the racketeers involved in this is thus - the racketeers call former-debtors of various financial institutions and mentally harass and threaten them and their family members by impersonating themselves to be either Police or CBI personnel, or officers of Courts of Law. Shockingly, even a lawyer (as stated by the racketeers) is involved in the running, functioning and furthering of this filthy and fraudulent racket.

I, Maneeka Saxena, and my parents, were subjected to such a racketeering attempt recently; however, we did not end up falling prey to this racket. The facts leading to the present complaint are as follows:

In 2006, my father had taken a loan of
Rs.80,000 from ABN AMRO Bank,
Lucknow, for a shop, which loan was fully repaid in or around 2007. However, on Monday, 13.05.2013, I received a call between 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. from +91-[protected]. The caller, after introducing himself as Ashok Jaitley, stated that he was calling from the Central Bureau of Investigation, New Delhi, and had instructions to arrest me and my father for committing fraud. He also threatened that he would get me blacklisted and would ensure that I lose my job and do not get any job in the future, thereby spoiling my entire career. It was frightening to know that this person knew everything about me and my job. Sensing some sort of foul-play, when I asked him to share his complete details such as designation, etc., he didn't give any; on the contrary he asked me to call an advocate looking after the alleged criminal case against me and my father. Since I was very scared and felt threatened, I called on the cell-phone number ([protected]) given to me by Ashok Jaitley, which was allegedly being used by an advocate at the Tees Hazari Court, New Delhi, namely Vijay Ramani, with his Chambers at Chamber No.56, Civil Wing, Tees Hazari Court. During my telephonic conversation with this advocate called Vijay Ramani, I was threatened with immediate arrest in the next 2 hours in the event I failed to deposit Rs.1 Lakh with the Kotak Mahindra Bank in the next 2 hours. I was shocked to hear this, and therefore inquired from him as to why, and pursuant to which criminal case, I was being pressurized to deposit such a huge amount with the Kotak Mahindra Bank (a bank with which I have done no business); however, Vijay Ramani completely disregarded my inquiry, and failed to give any detail about any criminal case against me and/or my father. Rather, he falsely told me that your father had taken a loan of Rs.1,50,000 from Barclays Bank, and due amount on this was presently at Rs.2,90,000 (including the interest). Further, I was threatened that getting into any kind of litigation was futile as the said amount would not get reduced; instead, he warned that an out-of-court settlement was the only choice left with me as that would require me to deposit only Rs.1,00,000 in the next 2 hours. I was also told that there was an imminent threat of my entire family getting arrested if I did not heed to his advice.

Being under an extremely pressurizing situation, I called my mother in a perplexed and scared state and told her the whole thing. My mother, getting worried, also spoke with these two persons who told her to go to the backside of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow, with the amount stated, where a person named Vijay would be waiting to take the deposit-money. When my mother told these persons that she'll be sending her husband (my father), she was told that only she should come, and should not send her husband. My mother, in turn, informed my father about the incident, who went to the Kotak Mahindra Bank and spoke to the Manager. The Manager denied the causation of the above-mentioned calls and criminal case against my father and me.
Thereafter, my father met the person named Vijay at the back-side of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow, who said that he was sent by Advocate Vijay Ramani to collect the amount due. When my father told this person called Vijay that he didn't owe any money to any bank, Vijay said that he had merely been instructed to collect the money from my father and produced some loan-account statement. After seeing this loan statement, my father told this person Vijay that he had the instalment-payment receipts of the loan taken in 2006, and could show the same to Vijay the next day. To this Vijay agreed, and told my father to see him the next day at the same place around the same time. Though, both persons, namely Ashok Jaitley (+91-[protected]) and Vijay Ramani ([protected]) had pestered me and my mother the entire day with their calls, their calls stopped coming after my father met this person named Vijay at Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow. Further, these two persons even switched off their phones after my father met this person. Surprisingly, when my father went to the same place at Shahnajaf Road on 14.05.2013 and 15.05.2013, the said person was not found.

Another thing to note is that these people called only me and my mother, and when we suggested that they should speak to my father, they became reluctant to do so. Meaning thereby that these racketeers only try to trick females and extort money from them.

Also, when I did a google search for "Vijay Ramani Advocate", I found two other posts referring to him on the internet, and indulging in the same kind of racket and extortion. The links to these internet posts are https://www.consumercomplaints.in/my-complaints.htmlicici-credit-card-c335588.html

http://www.consumercourt.in/mobile-billing-problem/112294-error-idea.html.

Kindly look into the matter as it is of serious concern. This is nothing but a mode of extorting money from innocent people through serious mischief. I believe this is a very big racket running on a large scale and making innocent people their victims by harassing them. Such sort of mischief should be tracked immediately and nipped in the bud.
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Barclays Bank — Total Harressment

Every day Barklays Bank representative are calling From Tel No.[protected], Mulund Branch, for P.L.
Inspite of Rejecting Their Proposal they keep on Calling Regularly for Last 3 Months.

Not Less than They Have called around 100 Times.

On Scolding them with Even Bad words
they do not stop & Say that they are NOT GETTING ANY ANGRY WHEN WE scold them.

This is shame on part of India that, that are working for Foreign Bank & want to Hartrase & Loot their Indian fellow citizens.

V. Strict Action should be taken against Them

Regards
Dinesh Manik

ABN AMRO ACCOUNT — ATTEMPT TO FRAUD BY ABN AMRO BANK TO ME

I am having an account in ABN AMRO BANK, i was shocked when i came to know that most of the details mentioned at ABN AMRO end of my account are wrong, they have misplaced the form which i submitted at time of creating my account with the ABN AMRO.
ABN AMRO has attached some other form in place of my form in the file.
My money is blocked at ABN AMRO end and i am unable to withdra my money from last 20 days.
There is a possibility the same may be the case with other account holders also.

ABN AMRO Bank — Harrasment and unnessasary Call

Dear Concern,

This is regarding the call from customer care on my cell no [protected] for the recovery of payment which cards doesnt belongs to me. I am getting calls from customer care form ABN Amro Credit Card payment. They always ask Mr. Anand Singh Negi, after my repetitive request for i.e there is no Mr.Anand Singh Negi and kindly update your database as i dont want anymore calls. But they are not taking any appropriate action sinace last three four months, this is so much frustating and mental torture.

So I request you to see in this matter & I expect no more such calls from yourside.

Regards,
Neha Bhatia

ABN AMRO Bank — Compliant against unnecessary threat and harrasment from Bank for payment which is not due from me

I was having ABN Amro credit card which I stopped using in 2007 when I came to know about the unnecessary charges the Bank was leving on me such as Insurance Premium, etc. I requested Bank to CLOSE my account after reversing these unncessary charges levied to me. I was told one amount by the Bank and after paying that the Bank said my account will be closed and a letter will be issued to me. I paid that amount in Feb 2008 but till now I have not received any CLOSURE letter. My acc is still active and bank the charges are being levied to me since then. Noe the acc is showing out standing of 10,000/- which is actually not due from me. and the bank people are harrasing me for payment of the same. PLease help

Kotak Mahindra & ICICI Bank. — Harassing Calls

Hi,

My Name is Arun S Nair. Its since more than two years I m having connection of IDEA Postpaid. Im repeatedly getting fake calls in Name of Arun Bikubhai Patel with a argument of payment due to Kodak Mahindra Bank & ICICI Bank.

I ve put a complaint in IDEA main branch office & have also attended all the calls & requested them that its a wrong No. & I m not the one you looking for.

Now this calls have started harrasing me daily.. Even my mobile No. [protected] is DNC block No. Still there are calls from the banks every day.

Please do the needful & help me avoiding this calls..

thanks
Arun S. Nair
Dear Arun,

We're sorry to hear about your experience.
We'll contact you and work to address your issue at the earliest.

Regards,
ICICI Customer Service Team.
Dear Concern,

This is regarding the call from customer care on my cell no [protected] for the recovery of payment for a person whom I do not know. I am getting calls from customer care form ABN Amro loan payment. They asked me to make payment on behalf of Mr. Jayendra Roy Chowdhury, whom I do not know. further to your attention, I got the cell no of the person and even talked to that person.
So I request you to see in this matter and take appropriate step so that I receive no more calls from your customer care.

Regards,
Sudipto Chakraborty
Sir/Madam,

I'm repeatedly getting call from ABN amro Bank customer service requesting Mr. Prithiv raj whom I don't know. Also i have clearly explained the representative regarding that they have been reaching us at[protected] incorrecly.

But they are understanding that and they have not updating this information into their system which makes us irritating. If its continue i will be forced to make necessary action to stop them by law.

Balaji
[protected]

Kotak Mahindra Bank — haressment case

keeping a costmer chq for last 7 days and not clearing it.when it already been debited from issueing person account .And on top of that not even telling the reason.Kindly help us out.

Name : Amit sharma

Mob no: [protected]
Dear Mr Sharma,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused and request you to write to solutions.[protected]@kotak.com with your account number, the cheque number and date, details of the issuing bank and the location where you deposited the cheque (branch / ATM). Once we receive this information, our team will contact you with an update.

Regards, Kotak Support Team

ABN AMRO Bank — Harassing customer

I had a ABN AMBRO Credit card but i never received statement on time in my last transation thow i paid my outstanding on time my statement showed latepayment fees for which i confirmed the call center which they assured will get reversed in the coming statement but after 4 years i came to knoe that my name was in civil & outsatnding was 2500 that to i was ready to pay at a sattelment of 1500 but no one revert back
Dear Sir,

This is to bring to your knowledge crucial facts related to a fake recovery racket running in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and New Delhi. The modus operandi of the racketeers involved in this is thus - the racketeers call former-debtors of various financial institutions and mentally harass and threaten them and their family members by impersonating themselves to be either Police or CBI personnel, or officers of Courts of Law. Shockingly, even a lawyer (as stated by the racketeers) is involved in the running, functioning and furthering of this filthy and fraudulent racket.

I, Maneeka Saxena, and my parents, were subjected to such a racketeering attempt recently; however, we did not end up falling prey to this racket. The facts leading to the present complaint are as follows:

In 2006, my father had taken a loan of
Rs.80, 000 from ABN AMRO Bank,
Lucknow, for a shop, which loan was fully repaid in or around 2007. However, on Monday, 13.05.2013, I received a call between 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. from +91-[protected]. The caller, after introducing himself as Ashok Jaitley, stated that he was calling from the Central Bureau of Investigation, New Delhi, and had instructions to arrest me and my father for committing fraud. He also threatened that he would get me blacklisted and would ensure that I lose my job and do not get any job in the future, thereby spoiling my entire career. It was frightening to know that this person knew everything about me and my job. Sensing some sort of foul-play, when I asked him to share his complete details such as designation, etc., he didn't give any; on the contrary he asked me to call an advocate looking after the alleged criminal case against me and my father. Since I was very scared and felt threatened, I called on the cell-phone number ([protected]) given to me by Ashok Jaitley, which was allegedly being used by an advocate at the Tees Hazari Court, New Delhi, namely Vijay Ramani, with his Chambers at Chamber No.56, Civil Wing, Tees Hazari Court. During my telephonic conversation with this advocate called Vijay Ramani, I was threatened with immediate arrest in the next 2 hours in the event I failed to deposit Rs.1 Lakh with the Kotak Mahindra Bank in the next 2 hours. I was shocked to hear this, and therefore inquired from him as to why, and pursuant to which criminal case, I was being pressurized to deposit such a huge amount with the Kotak Mahindra Bank (a bank with which I have done no business); however, Vijay Ramani completely disregarded my inquiry, and failed to give any detail about any criminal case against me and/or my father. Rather, he falsely told me that your father had taken a loan of Rs.1, 50, 000 from Barclays Bank, and due amount on this was presently at Rs.2, 90, 000 (including the interest). Further, I was threatened that getting into any kind of litigation was futile as the said amount would not get reduced; instead, he warned that an out-of-court settlement was the only choice left with me as that would require me to deposit only Rs.1, 00, 000 in the next 2 hours. I was also told that there was an imminent threat of my entire family getting arrested if I did not heed to his advice.

Being under an extremely pressurizing situation, I called my mother in a perplexed and scared state and told her the whole thing. My mother, getting worried, also spoke with these two persons who told her to go to the backside of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow, with the amount stated, where a person named Vijay would be waiting to take the deposit-money. When my mother told these persons that she'll be sending her husband (my father), she was told that only she should come, and should not send her husband. My mother, in turn, informed my father about the incident, who went to the Kotak Mahindra Bank and spoke to the Manager. The Manager denied the causation of the above-mentioned calls and criminal case against my father and me.
Thereafter, my father met the person named Vijay at the back-side of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow, who said that he was sent by Advocate Vijay Ramani to collect the amount due. When my father told this person called Vijay that he didn't owe any money to any bank, Vijay said that he had merely been instructed to collect the money from my father and produced some loan-account statement. After seeing this loan statement, my father told this person Vijay that he had the instalment-payment receipts of the loan taken in 2006, and could show the same to Vijay the next day. To this Vijay agreed, and told my father to see him the next day at the same place around the same time. Though, both persons, namely Ashok Jaitley (+91-[protected]) and Vijay Ramani ([protected]) had pestered me and my mother the entire day with their calls, their calls stopped coming after my father met this person named Vijay at Shahnajaf Road, Lucknow. Further, these two persons even switched off their phones after my father met this person. Surprisingly, when my father went to the same place at Shahnajaf Road on 14.05.2013 and 15.05.2013, the said person was not found.

Another thing to note is that these people called only me and my mother, and when we suggested that they should speak to my father, they became reluctant to do so. Meaning thereby that these racketeers only try to trick females and extort money from them.

Also, when I did a google search for "Vijay Ramani Advocate", I found two other posts referring to him on the internet, and indulging in the same kind of racket and extortion. The links to these internet posts are https://www.consumercomplaints.in/my-complaints.htmlicici-credit-card-c335588.html

http://www.consumercourt.in/mobile-billing-problem/112294-error-idea.html.

Kindly look into the matter as it is of serious concern. This is nothing but a mode of extorting money from innocent people through serious mischief. I believe this is a very big racket running on a large scale and making innocent people their victims by harassing them. Such sort of mischief should be tracked immediately and nipped in the bud.

Yours truly,
Maneeka Saxena
Hi Sir,

Today 24 dec 2013 I got a call from some debt management guy working in ABN AMRO bank stating that there is a non bailable warrant being passed to arrest my father for not paying some credit card amount which was taken more than 5 years back.He then gave me an advocates number ADV. Ashok Jaitley.And when i talked to him he asked me to pay the amount of 69000 by 3 pm that day or else my dad will get arrested.

Then later a lady from kotak mahindra bank which is part of ABN AMRO now, asking me to make the payment to an account, to which i replied i will only make the payment on behalf of the credit card number, not into any account.They are calling me continuously to make the payment.
Please help...

The names sounded similar to what saxenamaneeka had in her complaint.

When i searched the number in TRUE caller app it showed the number is on some ADV. Ramani.
Hi,
My Father had ABM AMRO Credit card and we made complete payment of the amount made in 2009 and i had also taken all the required documents and receipts now all of a sudden after 6 years some lady call me up and says i am calling from kodak banks from this no. [protected] and say that payment is due when i said them that i had made complete payment to banks they tell me to mail my account closing certificate when i said i need a official mail form your they are not ready to send it and blame me that sir this means your payment is due this was 3 months back and in this three months they have not yet send me their official mail and today on[protected] all of sudden they call and said sir your payment is balance i again said that send me official mail from your side they have again said ok i will do but biggest problem this unnecessary harassment not only create mental troma to my dad who is 60 yrs old but also is their way of speaking they wud start a call buy blaming you and will end call by using very tromatic language i dont rele know what kind of independent country we are staying were such banks are allowed to do ransom call still there they are not rusticated to jail were as one simple comment to our politician can rusticate you to jail, i did suffer alot this banks recover guys not only threaten me to kill my dad of make hostage of him but also gave bad world on my parents which is very bad and once a person amn ambro also said if my dad dont pay he will put my mother and sister in prostitution and each word that i use hear are true.
This happened to me yesterday that is 23.01.2014 but this time the caller told that he was sub inspector Yadav at Tis Hazari Court, New Delhi and his contact number is [protected] and the Advocate was Ashok Jaitly whose number is [protected]. When my Lawyer uncle spoke to him, he said to talk in Hindi. What a thing a lawyer in Delhi does not understand English.Then when today we are calling them they are not answering our calls. Thanks Maneeka for letting us know on this matter.
Adding two more numbers +91 [protected] and +91 [protected], i received same kind of call like Lawyer Vijay Ramanai has filed the case against you etc.. etc... So if you get any call from these numbers then pls avoid.
This is to bring to your knowledge crucial facts related to a fake recovery racket running in Chennai ( calls from +[protected]

The modus operandi of the racketeers involved in this is thus - the racketeers call have got some information about the loan availment thereafter they have not other idea, they start calling the and mentally harass and threaten them and their family members by impersonating themselves to be either ex Police or CBI personnel, or officers of Courts of Law. and have now been appointed to recover the old dues.

Shockingly, professionals are employed (as stated by the racketeers) is involved in the running, functioning and furthering of this filthy and fraudulent racketeer, they start talking in filthy language and repeated call so that one loses his temper and gets angry.

they keep making continuous calls so that you cannot do anything else. since this morning, i have been getting more than fifteen calls. on my mobile and they have even called up my ancestral house. where I don't dwell.

I would like to inform that i have not taken any loan from this ABN AMRO or Kodak Mahindra Bank in last fifteen years. i don't have any business transaction with the above mentioned banks.

I request and bring the above matter to your knowledge and request appropriate action as I suspect this group to be another fraudulent racketeer.

Masilamani
camp in Visakhapatnam
[protected].
Hello Everyone, Is anyone getting benefit from posting complaints here?

I too am Harassed by Kotak Bank and need to file a complaint.

Regards
Renji
Hello Everyone, I got a call from [protected] today saying he was Sub inspector Rana and he told me that there was a case pending against my husband for not paying his ABN Amro credit card. He said he wanted to talk to my husband only in this regards. I was a little apprehensive since I didn't understand why they were calling me instead of him. Well, I handed over the phone to my husband. That person told my hubby that they sent two notices to our old residence(which we left 5 years ago), and since we didn't revert, they have the orders to would arrest him. My husband go a bit scared. He asked us to contact an advocate at [protected], RK Malhotra. My husband called him, and he asked us to pay 25, 000 as an out of court settlement. He also told us that not paying will mess up our CIBIL score. Luckily, we knew our recent CIBIL score and didn't see anything pending in there. My hubby told that guy that he used the card 8 years ago, and had made all the payments. We kept forcing us of dire consequences. We were asked to make the payment in the next 2 hours. We smelled something wrong, and asked him to send the details of all the pending balance on our email id. He didn't send anything. He kept calling me entire day, but I didn't pick up the phone. When we asked him to meet in person to discuss all this, he said he doesn't meet in person. My advice to everyone, please DO NOT fall in the trap. Their motive is to make you nervous and take away your hard earned money. Ask them to come to the nearest police station to discuss the case, and I am sure they would vanish.Amita
My name is Muraleedharan, working in Dubai and I received a fraud call last week from two persons, one is acting as police and other one as lawyer (Vijay ramani). they told me that I have an arrest warrant and needs to surrender within a limited time or otherwise settle the amount of aed 2, 17, 228 through Kottak Mahindra Bank. after long discussion they told me that the amount should be deposit by next day before 11 am. otherwise they will send the police to my native address. after that I had some internal search through my cousins here and Delhi it found that they are cheaters only.

their mobile numbers are :: 0091.[protected] - Vijay ramani
0091.[protected] - Vikas Garg (i got the name through true caller application)

BEWARE... of these culprits.

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