Consumer complaints raised against Ashis Avilash!

We have raised a couple of complaints against Ashis Avilash at various online consumer complaints forums like : icomplaints.in and consumercomplaints.in to warn other users and also to get our money back.

iComplaints.in and consumercomplaints.in are some of the very good online forums to raise any complaints on any product / service. If you have any complaints, its worth a try.

View the complaints raised by us:

• at iComplaints.in
• at consumercomplaints.in (will be updated shortly)

Ashis threatens to remove this blog!

I called Ashis Avilash yesterday (27 Dec, 2011) once again asking about the status of the cheque and payment. Ashis threatened me to remove this blog and then he will make the payment.

So, what about the cheque deposited last week ? So, its all a lie !! He is a full time fraud. This blog is a warning sign to the centers who want to run the directtopeople.com process! Beware!

BPO fraud Ashis has provided another "fraud" date for payment ?

We made a phone call to Mr.V****, the representative of Ashis Avilash and asked him about the status of the payment and it looks like Ashis Avilash has given yet another date when he will send the payment to all the centers running the Directtopeople.com call center project.

The new date promised by the bpo fraud Ashis Avilash is Dec 26, 2011. Ashis has told Mr.V that his funding partner, Mr.Kartik will be providing the payment on behalf of Ashis Avilash only on Dec 26, 2011.

But, what about the date promised by Mr.Kartik to us, which is Dec 15, 2011 ? We have already started doubting if Kartik is another bpo fraud appointed by Ashis Avilash. We'll wait and see!

Ashis Avilash provided an invalid/fraud cheque number!

When I asked Ashis Avilash about the status of the cheque of Rs.20,000, he sent me an SMS with the below content on Dec 16, 2011 :

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 Ch.no - 144526 sbi. deposited on icici cspur. branch drop box
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Ashis has mentioned the cheque number in the above SMS and he has deposited it in the ICICI bank chandrasekarpur branch drop box at Bhubaneswar, Orissa.


He has provided an invalid cheque number and we still did not receive money from the bpo fraud Ashis Avilash.

Did I receive Rs.20,000 on December 7, 2011?

As per the promise made by Kartik & Ashis Avilash, I am supposed to receive Rs.20,000 on December 7, 2011; but I did not receive a single penny!

I called Ashis Avilash, and asked about the status of the payment and I got this reply:

"My partner Kartik asked me to deposit a Cheque because if I deposit money directly into the account, I wont have any proof of the payment"

Absolutely right! Who else can think better? than a fraud himself!

I told Ashis avilash that if he is so concerned about it, they should have dropped the cheque the previous day itself and I might receive the payment on said date!

He said he will send me the cheque number but he didn't send it on 7th Dec 2011 and I didn't receive the payment!

The follow-up for the payment:

I made a phone call to Ashis Avilash today(Dec 8, 2011) and asked him about the status of the payment(which has become my regular job). He then sent me the cheque number that was dropped in ICICI Bank drop box at Chandrasekarpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.

The status: I still haven't received the payment.

The official mail from Ashis & Kartik

As discussed in the last post, Ashis avilash & Kartik agreed to make a payment of Rs.3,60,000 on/before Jan 20, 2012. But, I asked them to make the payment in parts. So they agreed and sent the below email:

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Direct To People info@directtopeople.com Dec 8 (8 days ago)
to me

Dear,
As per the telephonic conversation by yesterday we are agree to pay the 1st part payment i.e 20,000/- (twenty thousand only)  in between the 15th of this months and the balance amount of your payment will made on before of the jan 20th so pls. kindly erase the blogs.

thanking you.
Kartik sahoo.
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This certainly is not Kartik's mail. This should have been sent by Ashis himself. How do I know? - Simple! Kartik's language didn't have grammar errors.

The fraud's callback!

On 7 December 2011, Ashis avilash initiated a conference call with his new partner named Kartik, who claimed as the funding partner for the directtopeople.com project. Kartik, who was on the conference call asked me about the issues happened. I explained him everything about what happened and how much Ashis avilash is liable to us.

Kartik, then said that he is the funding partner and this blog about bpo fraud ashis will spoil the reputation of Directtopeople.com and asked me to remove it and they promised to make the payment of Rs. 3,60,000(which is a part of the payment that Ashis is liable) on or before Jan 20 2012. I did not agree to this as Ashis was always promising something and has not kept the promise for the last 6 months. So, I asked them to make the payment in parts, and to start with they promised to make Rs.20,000 on 15 December 2011. (A person who is funding a huge project cannot pay more than Rs.20 K). I asked him to make some more as Rs.20 K is very less for what Ashis is liable. They also demanded me to remove this blog.

Kartik, said he has invested lakhs of rupees in the project and that the marketing of Direct to people is gonna start this December month end and the actual project is gonna kickstart during Jan 2012 mid. Cannot believe them btw, as there is no proof of anything that they speak.

I then asked Kartik to send a mail about the payment dates and the amount to have it as a proof from the official mail id of directtopeople.com.

Read the next post to have a preview of the mail.

A fellow victim of D2P shared the PAN Card and Driving License of Ashis

We have noticed a lot of companies who wants to outsource the projects to other companies now offer so many identity proofs. Be it the company id or personal id just to make the victim companies believe them so they can get a lump sum of money.

Ashis is not quite different. He has shared the PAN Card, Driving License, Agreement Originals, etc., & made the companies believe that he/his company is genuine. But people, did you know that you cant do anything with these in India? So sad :(

One of the fellow victims of Ashis Avilash shared it to us.

Beware! Dont every give any money upfront to anyone who is outsourcing the project. Usually 99.9% it is FAKE !!!

Ashis Avilash(BPO Fraud) cheating continues?

We have seen Ashish posting on online bpo websites asking people to send their company profile to execute Direct To People call-center process. I dont know how I can warn the people there :(

Here is the link to the forum:

http://www.bpovoice.com/profile/ashisavilash?xg_source=activity

Directtopeople.com (D2P) - A masterplan fraud by Ashis Avilash

The fraud strategy was master-planned by Ashis Avilash(who claimed himself to be the son of ex district collector of Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.

The background:
We are a BPO company located at South India also dealing with call center services.

Once a representative of Directtopeople.com(D2P) created by BA Square Infotech approached us for outsourcing the call-center project to our company. The product is all about selling discount cards(like a credit card) to common people. The call-center is responsible for handling customer queries.

The representative explained us about the product and the monetary terms and conditions. We were ready to go ahead with the process. The process terms are:

Consulting charges to the representative of Directtopeople.com(Ashis) : Rs 50,000
The project involves buying the server for call-routing from Ashis : Rs. 2,50,000

Payment Terms:

1. A monthly payment of Rs. 3,60,000 for 20 employees
2. The server cost of Rs.2,50,000 will be reimbursed at the time of process termination
   

Their Requirements:

1. 20 employees from June 15, 2011
   
2. A private limited company
3. Call center execution certificate from Govt of India
   
4. 24 hours power backup with computer technician
   

All the above requirements was demanded to be ready by them on June 15 2011 and it was done as said and verified by the representative of D2P.

We executed the call center process which went on for 1.5 months. We hired an external trainer and provided the complete training required to the team. But we have not received any response from Ashis on the process modules which is required to execute the process. We have neither received the server for call routing nor the payment.

Expenses from our company for D2P:

• Salary from June 15 to September 2011
• Office Rent / month = Rs.70,000 + service tax
  

We paid the salary and the rent from the company's pocket.

We have raised the invoice to Ashis Avilash for June 2011 payment which is Rs.1,19,500, but he asked us to compensate Rs.1 lakh towards the server cost and paid Rs.20,000 and asked us to pay the remaining Rs.1.5 lakh server cost and we made the payment to his Union bank account.

1 month passsed and we raised the invoice for July 2011 payment but he said will make the payment next day or next week whenever we called him. The he sent an SMS with an invalid transaction number. Then he said he is not feeling well. He started giving reasons for not making the payment.

He has given a cheque from Union bank account & another from the The Capital Credit Co-operative Society of Bhubaneswar (Cheque No: 05912, Date: 19/09/2011). I have deposited the cheque 2 months back but the first cheque bounced and the latter did not come back to my bank from CCCS.

We've been calling him even now but he says he is in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and he will ask the bank about the payment status etc., Now the representative says Ashis is not feeling well.

The same problem is faced by other centers in various parts of India.

Center affected by this fraud are:

• A center run by Mr.D***** - Jamshedpur
• One center run by Mr.K****** - Coimbatore
• Another one by Mr.P***** - Hyderabad

The contact details of this fraud is(Usually frauds have multiple mobile numbers :) ):

• 9778982435
• 8093180266
• 7871040747 (Currently active)

Emails:

• info@directtopeople.com
• info@basquareinfotech.com

He has also provided us the Address of his office at Bhubaneswar but the other center owners confirmed that he has closed the office and they don't know the whereabouts.

Address:
Plot no M1
Samant vihar, Chandrasekhar pur
Bhubaneswar-17


I will post the copy of the original agreement, bank transaction details, cheque, emails etc., in the next blog post. Stay Tuned !!! And dont get cheated!