Name of Complainant	HGM
Date of Complaint	July 24, 2023
Name(s) of companies complained against	Nielsen
Category of complaint	Cyber Crime
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I was contacted through WhatsApp by a number +62 815-7247-7044 (WhatsApp Account Name: hotzqhnljr) who offered me a part-time job promising a daily income of INR 2000-8000. That person identified herself as Aliana Mae Casa who works for a company that operates with Nielsen.
I am unemployed and looking for jobs at this moment and who wouldn’t go for a part-time to earn some pocket money to cover small expenses? And that was my biggest mistake.
According to her, the tasks were simple and the job was to promote Instagram accounts by following and liking their posts. I did my first task and got INR 20 for the task and INR 100 as a joining bonus. To collect the money I was asked to contact a person (termed ‘receptionist’) on Telegram (mostly such scams are going through Telegram) named Victoria (Username: @Victoria124354). I got my first salary of INR 120 after contacting her.
That receptionist after that made me join an official task group, where 23 various tasks were posted on a regular basis (the Instagram task paid INR 40 and the merchant task based on the investment). Tasks start at 0900 hours and get over by 2030 hours. After 3 Instagram task, there is a merchant task. In the merchant task, you have to initially invest different amounts starting from INR 1000 to INR 50000 (for junior employees), INR 12800 to INR 150000 (for intermediate employees) and you get profit for every investment you do instantly.
To play this merchant task, I was asked to contact a person termed a ‘Teacher’ who would guide us throughout the process. Name: Susan (CITE s Tutor) (Username: @YWHA88888). I was asked to download an application named CITEX, where one can do bitcoin trading.
After that, the teacher guided me through the process, where I deposited INR 1000 by paying the receptionist, and the amount got reflected on the application. I was asked to invest the whole amount on Ethereum crypto(within 2 minutes) and instantly I got a profit of INR 300 which reflected on the application itself. The teacher gave me a withdrawal code which I sent to the receptionist and I got the money in my bank account. After that again 3 instagram task and then again a merchant task, but this time I was asked to invest a bigger amount to which I did, I invested INR 4800 and went through the same process and earned a profit of INR 1440 and again I received the whole amount back in my bank account.
I should have stopped myself here, but I can’t explain you the psychology on an unemployed youth who is struggling to earn himself some money.
So, as they knew that they have gained my trust, the receptionist invited me to join the intermediate group (here instagram task paid INR 60 and merchant task based on the investment) and there after 3 instagram task I was asked to take on the merchant task, where minimum investment was INR 12800 and profit was 6400. I initially refused to take it, but the receptionist said that this the last task to become a regular employee and after that I am free to make investment of any amount according to my needs in the merchant tasks. This became my greatest mistake.
I took part, the receptionist asked me to contact the teacher with an indemnity agreement of my payment. The teacher made me join a group of other 3 people telling me that it is a group task. I doubt the other 3 were members of that same fraud group only. So the first merchant task got over, my investment along with the profit showed in my CITEX account and I thought it was over.
But no, things turned out bad for me now, and the teacher said that there were 2 more tasks which included investments more than INR 12800 and everyone in the group had to agree on the same amount. The lowest investment was INR 28000. The rule was that if we leave a combination task in between we lose our existing investment and profit and so out of confusion and panic and borrowed the INR 28000 and invested, again after the completion of the task the money reflected in my CITEX account and then the 3rd and the final task came up.
The other members were eager to invest the biggest amount but as I requested decided to go with INR 58000 which was the lowest. Again i got played and I borrowed INR 58000 and invested. But while doing the investment in the CITEX app I made a mistake (I don’t know but maybe it was intentionally done to me).
I was asked to invest in Ethereum Classic, but I invested in Ethereum crypto. This time the investment and profit didn’t got reflected on the CITEX account and when I asked the teacher she said that i made a mistake and my investment and profit is gone. One other guy (Name: Virendra Kumar / Username: @sdwcm18) in the group did the same mistake (but that was made up just to lure me), and the other two members shared screenshots of receiving the money in there account and left. One was Kamala Lakshmi (Username: @BDEWQ14) and the other was Gaurav Sarma.
Knowing that I froze, I was shocked and I felt hell. I didn’t know what to do, I felt like going through a trauma. We both consulted the teacher and she said that there is a way of getting the money back by performing a similar task called Repair Task (Even Kamala Lakshmi mentioned that). But for the Repair Task we have to invest INR 116000 more. This destroyed me from inside. I am still going through the same trauma.
For the sake of getting back my money (INR 12800+28000+58000 = INR 98,800 + profit of INR 38,200), I decided to again invest INR 116000 whcih I again borrowed, which the other person did as well. I invested, received the indemnity agreement, my money got reflected (i.e. INR 253000) and that other person and I got ready for the next Repair task. The task got over through the same process and my money got reflected along with the profit in my CITEX account\ which was INR 299440. I received the withdrawal code from the teacher and I sent it to the receptionist.
Now, the next part of the game.I got a bit relieved learning that I can withdraw my money back and can pay back all my debts. The receptionist informed me and asked me to talk to the Chief Financial Officer of CITEX (Username: FCyWh99) saying that my CITEX account is not allowing the money to be withdrawn because of a CreditScore. She said that as I made a mistake while performing the regular merchant task, my CreditScore became less by 10 points, which she showed me a screenshot of a system message. My CreditScore is 90 and needs to be 100 to withdraw the whole amount, and I could improve it my purchasing the 10 Credits which would cost INR 20000 for 1 Credit, total of INR 200000 for 10 Credits which I get refunded once my CreditScore becomes 100. I lost all hope of ever getting my money back. I was devastated. I decided not to proceed further.
Meanwhile that other person faced the same issue and he asked me to purchase the points as he was going to do too. He purchased the Credits and showed me the screenshot of his bank account getting credited with the whole amount i.e. INR 499440 (INR 299440 + INR 200000). That is why I considered him a member of this fraud group too.
I request everyone, basically the unemployed ones not to fall into such traps of making some easy money and go through such a horrible situation as I am going through now.

UPI ID’s of money transfer:
1. durailkovoor-1@okaxis / duraikovoor-1@okicici
2. aryanthrosz143@paytm
3. dsuriyaprakash@indianbank / dsuriyaprakash@barodampay
4. sumit2906@paytm / sumitsharma75@yesbank
5. 9256417646.imb@icici
6. 7060382935@paytm / 7060382935@ybl
7. Rktrade234@axl
8. Bank Account: 122463300000594 / IFSC: YESB0001224 / Name: Khan Enterprises / Yes Bank, Gopinath Bazaar Branch
9. Bank Account: 3318002100003917 / IFSC: PUNB0331800 / Name: Major Dhyanchand Sports Store Dhandhela / PNB Branch: Thalarka, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan
10. kalapocho7171@axisbank
11. bhurala45@yesbank / bhurabhailohar532-3@okaxis (Balaji Kirana Store, Roodri) / roodri10@bandhan

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