Name of Complainant	Kumar
Date of Complaint	April 14, 2023
Name(s) of companies complained against	http://Viacom3.vip, Matrix Bricks Company
Category of complaint	Cyber Crime
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Text of Complaint by Kumar:

I have lost 16 lakh rupees to them. Please do not trust them guys. This is an organized scam.
Do your research in internet and proceed further. Don’t fall for them.

Cyber crime department, Please block these bank accounts which I have copied at the end of this message.

This is how it started……

I have received a message on my what’s app number saying freelance opportunity with Matrix Bricks Company. They will start with small YouTube Subscription work and slowly take you to bigger works where lakhs and lakhs amount is involved.
For smaller amounts like 10k to 15k they will give you back with in minutes to gain trust.
Then slowly, increases the investment amount and you will be tempted to see the profits what they are showing and you will start trusting them more.

Tools they have used to scam:
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Telegram –> fake groups and Id’s
http://viacom3.vip –> where they will ask you to place order for cryptocurrency.

Their scamming model is, there will be 25 Missions per day.
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–>20 missions are related to subscribing to YouTube channels and share the screenshots. For each screenshot they will give you Rs.50/-.
–> Later they will add you to VIP group in telegram and gives Rs.300/- per youtube sunscription.
–> 5 missions are related merchant tasks, where they will start asking you to deposit amount in their bank accounts. Given full list of bank accounts.

Their working Hierarchy:
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1. Receptionist : Who will track your missions/screenshots/amount and shares bank accounts in which you need to deposit amounts for merchant tasks.
2. Mentor : Who will drag you to the merchant tasks and ask you to buy some crypto currency with the amount you have deposited.
3. Finance Officer : Who will settle your balances. But never settles. He will keep-on hits you to grab the money whatever you have.
4. Merchant : Nobody knows whether it is a person or company or computer or software.

Step-by-Step process:
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–> First receptionist will add you to a temporary group, where they will give all the 25 missions to attract new joinees.
–> First and Second missions are Youtube Subscriptions. Subscribe, take screenshot and share with receptionist.
–> Receptionist will add balance of 100/- [50/- + 50/-] to your account.
–> Third mission is merchant task, where you to need deposit the amount. sample mission screenshot attached to the complaint.
–> If you skip this, your next youtube mission profit will go down to 25/- for each subscription.
–> So you will choose 1000/- plan as you are newbie and they will give you 1350/- for 1000/-
–> Here your receptionist will introduce you to a mentor. You are going to lose all your money in this persons hands.
–> Mentor will give you sequence of steps which need to be followed.
–> Every step needs to be performed in http://viacom3.vip website.
–> This site is used to speculate crypto currencies –> Mainly Bitcoin and Etherium
–> They will ask you to place Buy Fall or Buy Up option for the amount which you have deposited into their account.
–> First merchant task will be like individual.
–>Once you complete, they will say you have to perform same steps with group of 2 or 3 people from next time.
–> Once the task is done, mentor will say I am contacting merchant for withdrwal code and share it with you.
–> You have to share it with receptionist
–> Receptionist will evaluate the withdrawal code and calculate your deposited amount and profits.
–> Receptionist will take your bank details and says like I have submitted your earnings to finance department for payment.
–> Finance department guy will reach out to you and credits your amount to given bank account [first two times only].
–>They will immediately deposit your amount into bank account for first time.

–> Now you are very happy as you have received 1350/- for 1000 rupees for 3 to 4 simple steps that too in 10 to 15 mins.

Trap process
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** So far so good** Now you will go into their trap.

–> From the Second merchant task onwards, there will be no chance to choose 1000/- rupees plan. You have to choose from min 5k to max 2L. Attached sample merchant plan.
–> you will definitely chooses 5k option where you will get 6,100/-.
–> You will contact your receptionist with plan you are choosing and Receptionist will share you the bank details in which you have to deposit the plan amount.
–> once the amount is credited into their accounts, they will ask you to join a separate group where mentor, receptionist and 2 other people exists.
–> Basically this group consists of Yourself [victim], your receptionist, mentor and 2 other people [1 gent and 1 lady]. These two people are also fraud.
–> Fraud-1 [Gent] will be more aggressive and behaves like more experienced.
–> Fraud-2[Lady] will behave like new to this system and earning for the first time.
–> you follow the same steps as before and they will credit your earnings with 10 to 15 mins.
–> Mentor will ask you to read 3 steps of agreement and ask you to reply as ok for those 3 steps.
–> Here mentor will say you have to perform 2-4 orders to complete this task.
–> Mentor always says task plans will be given my merchant randomly. Each plan contains 3 profit options. Attached screens.
–> You will follow below steps and perform them in http://viacom3.vip
Step 1: Click on BTC
Step 2: Click buy Up
Step 3: Choose 180s (3 Minutes)
Step 4: Other amount key in (Follow below)
Step 5: Click confirm order
**wait till 180 second timer to complete. They will say we are collecting the data in this 180 seconds.
–> once the task is done, mentor will say contacting merchant if there is any other task [as you agreed to complete 2-4 tasks]
–> Mentor will come back and say merchan gave you new second task and the plan is below.
Rs.6000 cashback Rs.7,800 –> 30% profit
Rs.8000 cashback Rs.10,400 –> 30% profit
Rs.10k cashback Rs. 14,1000 –> 40 % profit [Last option will always be 10% more profit than first two options]
–> obviously we choose lowest amount 6k and follows the same steps as before.
–> Mentor will check with merchant and come back and says there are no other tasks. He will share withdrawal codes and ask you to share with your receptionist. She will take your bank detials and submits to finace team for payment.
–> They will credit your amount in 10 mins.

*** Now you are very very happy because you have earned 1100 + 1800 = 2900/- for 11k rupees in 20 to 30 mins****

Fully submerged into trap
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Money will make you dumb and greedy at this point. You will go to another merchant task again and assumes that it will also like same as before and chooses same 5k plan.

–> Here things will start falling aprat.
–> You will complete 5k task. [1100 profit]
–> next directly gives 2nd task with 3 plans [min 10k and max 30k] . profits are like 30%:30%:40% respectively.
–> You will choose 10k plan, deposits amount and completes it. [3000 profit]
–> Now mentor will give you 3rd task with 3 plans [min 50k and max 150k]. profits are like 30%:30%:40% respectively.
–> Now you don’t have choice to stop in the middle. If you stop, they will scare you like your earlier deposited money, profits and the other persons earnings in the group will also be lost.
–> Fraud-1 [Gent] will start pushing you to take the task.
–> Fraud-2 [Lady] will act like dumb and says i don’t have money.
–> You will start worrying because the entire amount will be lost for 3 of you if you don’t complete the task.
–> somehow you will arrange 50k and other two frauds also says they are ready for the task.
–> you will follow the same steps to complete the task.

*** This is where their game plan starts***
–> They will tamper your account which you have created in http://viacom3.vip
–> Inserts multiple orders with the same timestamp without your notice.
–> Once your timer stops, mentor will say data is corrupted. Someone not followed the steps which I have shared that’s why data is corrupted.
–> Mentor will ask you to share order history from your http://viacom3.vip account.
–> your account history deifinitely contains multiple entries and says you are culprit. Mentor will blame you and other two frauds emotionally blackmails you for the mistake which you haven’t committed.
–> Mentor will say, your entire amount is lost and you don’t get anything.
–> other two frauds will starts msgs like begging the mentor for money and yelling at you.
–> you will get emotional and you will also start requesting your mentor for the amount.

Till here you have already invested 5K+10K+50K = 65k
**Now mentor says, I begged merchant for you guys to recover your money and shares a remedy plan****
–> Remedy plan will contains multiple tasks with 3 plans each [30,30,40% profits respectively].
Note: Mentor won’t say there are multiple tasks exists. you will think that it is only one task.
–> First task with starting amount will be 2 times of your investment [2*65k = 130k] and all the way to 250k.
–>Again emotional drama sequence will start from other two frauds.
–> You will fall for it and arranges money and completes it.

** They already looted 65k+130k = 195k till here**

–> Now mentor will go and talk to merchant and comes back with new task [Second remedy plan].
–> This time the plan amount will start from 2 times of earlier plan. From 260k to 350k.
–> They will push you like anything. Obviously You won’t be having that much amount in your bank account. They will just give you 10 to 15 mins to decide whether you want to continue or lose all the money.
–> In the mean time, after few mins of drama, mentor will privately ping you and says i can help you with some amount. You can deposit rest of the amount and complete the task.
–> You will feel like this mentor is god and you will start thinking like if it is not genune how would he invest his own money for us.
–> Mentor may help you with 80k or 100k. and you will deposit your share of 180k or 160k respectively.
–> Now you will think like you will earn all the money 195k + 260k with profits [Total will be like 700k] after completing this task.

** Now you already lost 260k + 190k = 450k **** not including profits as it is not your money.

After completing it, mentor will talk to merchant and shares you the withdrwal code.
You will feel happy and shares it with receptionist.
Recptionist shares it with finance team for the payment.

A few moments later,
finance manager will ping you and says i am not going to settle your payment because you did a mistake.
You will be wondering what mistake i have done.
Now he will bring out a new rule – Taking money from the mentor is a big crime and you broke the rules.
Fot this you have to complete penalty task. So that we will give all your money back.
Penalty task will be 2 times of the amount which mentor has helped you. If he helped with 80k, then deposit amount will be 160k like that.

As you already getting 700k, this 160k will look like small and you will arrange it somehow and completes the task.

A few moments later,
Finance manager will prepares a sheet with all the deposited and earned amounts.
It also contains Taxes and Service charges. These are not small amounts.
For your 860k, he will ask you to pay 97k as taxes and 90k as service charge. Total will be 187k.

Now you will be in dilema whether i need to pay 187k for 860k or leave it here.
But our mind and heart will be out of sync and pushes you to pay the taxes which is 187k.
Here finance manager will ask you to contact receptionist to pay these taxes. He also mentions some keyword which needs to be mentioned while paying the taxes amount.
*You won’t understand that language and you will never think that there is a keyword which needs to be mentioned during the payment.
Your receptionis will also won’t tell anything. She will just share the bank details.
They will just give you 10 mins and pushe you, confuses you to make mistakes while transferring the amount.
Now You have transferred the amount of 187k without putting any remarks/note in the transaction.

A few moments later,
Finance manger will ping you and says you have committed another mistake again. You did not put the keyword in the transaction.
You have to pay the taxes again so that we will deposit previous tax amount and your earnings.
Without thinking further you will arrange and pay 187k again by putting the keyword which he mentioned.

Now you feel releifed and think that you have completed everthing and they will deposit your money.

** new twist to the story**
Finance manager will come to you and say,
As you have not mentioned the kyeword in transaction, our team thought that you are going to take merchant task and deposited the amount in merchant’s account [http://viacom3.vip]
So now you have to take merchant tasks [2-4 tasks] to recover your entire money which is 860k+187k= 10,47,000/-

Imagine your situation at this point. Do we need to leave it or take another step to recover my entire money.
If you are smart enough, you will get out from there and forget about the money which you have invested.
But somewhere you will feel like it is happening because of the mistakes which I have committed unintentionally and starts feeling guilty.

If you say, i want to take merchant task then that’s it. cycle will start again.
first task with 100k, second task with 280k and third task will be 320k

Again 700k investment.

Earlier investment was like 450k + penalty 160k [mentor help] + 187k taxes [no keyword] + 187k taxes [with keyword] = 984k

total = 700k + 984k = 1684k –> which you will lose.

After completing everything don’t think that you will get your money.

They will start new drama saying, you don’t have required credit score to withdraw this amount from your account.
To increase your credit score, you have to again 4 merchant tasks [starts from 100k] or 1 single task with big amount [1Milion].

…. Drama continues…..

List of Bank Accounts they have used:
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Name – PARAS SINGH
Account Number – 919717046599
IFSC – PYTM0123456

A/C NUMBER: 016105501465
IFSC CODE: ICIC0000161
NAME : SHIVAM ENTERPRISE
ICICI BANK LTD, RAIPUR
Current

UPI ID – paras.585@paytm

A/C NUMBER: 016105501465
IFSC CODE: ICIC0000161
NAME : SHIVAM ENTERPRISE
ICICI BANK LTD, RAIPUR
Current

Name – PARAS SINGH
Account Number – 919717046599
IFSC – PYTM0123456

name：ELANGOVAN SANNASI
Acc： 119163300000554
IFSC： YESB0000538
YES BANK – BVK IYENGAR ROAD, BANGALORE

A/C NUMBER: 016105501465
IFSC CODE: ICIC0000161
NAME : SHIVAM ENTERPRISE
ICICI BANK LTD, RAIPUR
Current

A/C NUMBER: 016105501465
IFSC CODE: ICIC0000161
NAME : SHIVAM ENTERPRISE
ICICI BANK LTD, RAIPUR
Current

yesbank+current

name：ELANGOVAN SANNASI
Acc： 119163300000554
IFSC： YESB0000538
YES BANK – BVK IYENGAR ROAD, BANGALORE

Bank Name: ICICI Bank
Branch: HERITAGE CHAMBERS
Account Type: Current
Account Holder Name: SAMBHAV TRADERS
Account Number: 403105500348
IFSC Code: ICIC0004031

name：FELIX ENTERPRISES
acc：641405052856
IFSC：ICIC0006414
bank：ICICI BANK – Mumbai – Kalina

acc:025305010684
name:STAR VISION IMPEX
ifsc:ICIC0003658
ICICI BANK – Chennai – Akkarai

Bank Name: Yes Bank
Branch: CHEMBUR CENTRAL AVENUE ROAD
Account Type: Current
Account Holder Name: NIDDHI ENTERPRISES
Account Number: 052563300002101
IFSC Code: YESB0000525

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