Name of Complainant	S
Date of Complaint	April 1, 2023
Name(s) of companies complained against	Nasdaq
Category of complaint	Internet Services
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Text of Complaint by S:

Hi team,

On 20th March 2023, I had joined a Telegram group which sent YouTube video links and provided INR 50 for watching and liking each YouTube video.

I received INR 750 in total as a result of this.

Next day (21st March), they said in order to continue, I should be doing ‘Nasdaq tasks’.

This involved sending them some money (INR 2000, INR 5000 etc) and they’ll give back with 20%, 30% profits within a short duration of time.

How this worked is, they showed the money was transferred to the below website (still active website):
https://nasdaq-india-club.pages.dev/#/pages/userfo/userfo

In this website, first I had to create my account and then they guided me with the steps in order to generate the profits.

This website actually looks like a crypto/currency trading platform.
I was told that they use these transactions to hike the crypto/currency tradings.

Initially, in the afternoon of 21st March, I gave them INR 2,000 for which I received INR 2,800 within 1 hour (so INR 800 profit).

After this, in the evening, I sent them INR 5,000 for which they said that I will get back INR 6,500.
But, I did not get this.
They added me in another Telegram group with 3 other people and a guide (so total 5 people).
They said this is a group task and I have to do atleast 3 tasks to get this amount along with the profits.
So, for the remaining 2 tasks, I transferred them INR 20,000 and INR 70,000 (so a total for INR 95,000 for this group task).

However, after this they said that 2 people from the group (I and another person) have made a mistake.
So we did not get the amounts/profits back.

They said that the remaining 2 people from the group will get the amounts back soon.
And they also left the group.
(One of them even contacted me separately and said that he has been doing this for a long time and he already received his money back.)

So, only 3 people were now left in this group: the guide, another person who was also told to have made a mistake and I.

Now for the 2 of us (myself and another person), who were yet to get the money, they said that we need to do another 3 tasks in order to retrieve the entire amounts.

For these 2 tasks, first I sent INR 1,50,000 and after which I sent INR 1,00,000.
Please note that all this money was reflecting in the website in my account.

So, by now I’d sent INR 3,47,000 in total and all within a span of few hours in the evening of 21st March, 2023.

Now, when I asked for the retrieval, they said I need to send INR 2,72,000 more for the 3rd task in order to get the entire money back.

By this time I understood that there’s something wrong and I told them to give me sometime to arrange for this INR 2,72,000.

After this I called 1930 and also visited the Cyber Crime police department to lodge a complaint.

Regards.

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