| Name of Complainant | |
| Date of Complaint | August 12, 2022 |
| Name(s) of companies complained against | Amazon |
| Category of complaint | Cyber Crime |
| Permanent link of complaint | Right click to copy link |
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I am a student looking for part time jobs and came across this number who told me that he is a programme manager at amazon and and that he is a part of a trading business that helps merchants in amazon. First I registered in an Amazon tasks account . At first I was given certain tasks where I was told to Deposit 300rs and earn 750rs which I did and after recharging for 300rs and completing the task . I was sceptical about paying the money and he replied with saying that their company is registered and totally safe and he also send me various certificates to show that their company is completely safe and registered . Certificate of authorization and certificate of incorporation were all send to me. I then recharged for 300 rs and completed the task for the first day and an amount of 630 was credited to my account. Since I was able to make a small profit it made me believe in the whole thing . Further I was told to complete tasks where I have to recharge for a certain amount each time and buy a product that’s displayed on the screen and once that product is bought from the money I recharged my account with , the next task will be given and along with it some amount of money will be credited to my account as the commission earned from the previous task. The next time I was told to complete 5 tasks and only after completing the 5 tasks will I be able to withdraw money. The first task I was asked to pay 900 , then for second task 1000 and then the money that Im supposed to recharge for kept on increasing. Also I found out that even after completing 5 orders I was not able to withdraw the money and all this time I was in contact with their agent through telegram and I told him that even though I have completed 5 orders still I’m not able to withdraw the money, and he told me that I’ll have to complete 2 more orders and then I’ll be able to withdraw the money. I somehow burrowed money from others to complete the next order and for the last order it was asking me to recharge for a sum of 2lakh rupees upon which I told the agent that I can no longer pay any more money and he told me that I’ll have to pay 79998 as bank charges to withdraw the money since I haven’t completed the tasks and Im trying to recharge. This money is supposed to act as a bank guarantee was what he told me. I agreed to pay the 79998 rs because he assured me that he’ll unfreeze my account and I’ll be able to withdraw the money into my bank account. By this time I had invested around 2.5 lakh and the amazon account showed that I had made an amount of 7 lakh from doing the tasks. I paid the 79k as bank charges and he unfroze my account and told me to withdraw the 7 lakh , which I did. He told me that it will take atleast 1-5 days since such a huge amount is being withdrawn. Even after 5 days not a single money was deposited to my account and upon contacting the agent he told me that my bank rejected the amount that was being transferred and that my account had some kind of a limit and the 7lakh being transferred to my account was over the limit of my bank account. I asked them to send me details of the transaction and they didn’t and told me that they can’t send send bank account details because their bank is very secretive and they can’t reveal information about their bank.
I asked them to give their contact number and they refused to do so. And finnally after constant messaging they told me that the name of their company is Headsup corporation and they are based in delhi. I googled heads up corporation and called on the number that was given. I then had a conversation with a person who works at headsup corporation and he told me that this is a fraud/ scam that has been going on for a couple of months and they have been using the name of Headsup Corporation to do these scams. He further told me that he gets around 50 calls on a day to day basis from victims of this scam .
