Nasscom.in James Walters (Program Mgr) Elizabeth Stonebridge (HR Manager) Prachi Patel (contractor), Abiodun Osula (vendor), Ruby Baker (vendor) Nasscom Fraud Report – Work from Home Scam: Bad checks & Vendor Scam from check deposit & next day withdrawl for vendor cash deposit: Internet

Nasscom Fraud Report – Work from Home Scam:  Bad checks & Vendor Scam from check deposit & next day withdrawl for vendor cash deposit:

This company claims to offer a work at home program, whereby they are to set one up with a computer, printer, software (for filing billings, data entry, and other out-sourced services like customer support to fulfill contracts they have with companies), along with a high speed Internet connection, training, and on-going jobs to be applied for up to 40 hours per week.

The initial offering was made by James Walters (727.483.7553), claiming to be a management representative of Nasscom.in, who referred me to the company's HR Supervisor for this program, Ms. Elizabeth Stonebride from Bowie, MD, for an initial screening, as setup for the program.

After an initial brief interview and writing assignment over Google Hangouts, they send an overnight check to you for $3810 to be deposited into your bank account. On the next day, when those funds are technically available (but before the bank has collected their funds), they ask you to withdraw $3700 and put that into the account of the vendor who is supposed to provide the materials and setup the high speed line - which is a bit suspect as they do not want one to just transfer the monies into the other account.

These funds were issued by Enrique Esteban, from an account with Orion Federal Credit Union. This was shipped USPS overnight, from Robert Gregorio of Sunovion Phamaceuticals, 2210 Oak Shores Drive, Kingswood, TX 77339 - but were routed originating in Michigan City, IN - to Gary, In - to Chicago - to Longmont (final destination). The next days' deposits were made to Abiodun Osula (vendor) at a Well Fargo Bank account.

The following day they issue another check, this time for $6900.10 to be deposited similarly, to be followed up the next day with a withdrawl and redeposit into another account related to the same vendor (the vendor's assistant as the vendor is out of town that day making a delivery), but this time for only $4850 to go to the vendor (as I referenced to them that banking regulations exist for cash withdrawls over $5000).

This check was also sent USPS overnight, from sender Jeremy Clark at Autodeck, 4480 Feather Way, Douglasville, GA - yet it had the same accopanying note from Enrique Esteban, and also the USPS ship tracking showed the same actual route from Indiana to Illinois to Colorado (see above). The withdrawl the next day (that never happened) was supposed to go to the Wells Fargo account of Ms. Ruby Baker (This was the vendor's assistant - see above paragraph).

Being a bit concerned, I requested before going further to supply me with the name and contact to someone else who had been through this program and was actively engaged in the work at home program. The gentleman's name was Prachi Patel (773.482.0823) who reassured me that this was the same procedure he went through 6 months ago and he was actively engaged in doing the daily work. He claimed to be doing this work part-time most weeks, but that the company could supply 40 hours per week of assignments to be fulfulled with the materials supplied.

Which was all seemingly fine except for when I went into my bank to do the 2nd withdrawl, they told me that the first check did not clear due to 'uncollected funds', indicated that the first and 2nd checks were issued on either a non-existent account or an old, closed out account', as compared to being rejected for 'insufficient funds' which means the account was good, just without enough funds to payout.

When I returned to the bank later that day, with the cash deposit slip for the earlier cash deposit, the bank reported that the account to which I had deposited, was also frozen for fraud suspicion, as someone the day before me had deposited money to that account, and the owner of that account had removed $2500. Respectively, although their records showed that my cash deposit was still with my bank as that account was frozen, the whole procedures had now also frozen my account... what a mess.

Respectively, while I am not sure how or if this can be resolved if this is not a clear ripoff case, the process has been compounded due to the cash withdrawl, as compared to if I had made a direct transfer from my account to the vendor's account, by which my bank could have simply resecured the funds based on a fraud case.

While I don't want to blame the people who are claiming to represent Nasscom (as this could be an honest mistake of issuing checks from an old, closed-out account), if I don't update this report later (to reflect the resolution), everyone should be aware that it is a definite scam (Watch out for the Nasscom offer), and never withdraw any mones from a check someone gives you that you don't know, until at least several days it fully clears your bank, as compared to what the deposit slips tell you.

One last thing: I should have noticed that even though, in conversation and accompanying cover letter were by the same controller, the two overnight mailers had different senders from different areas of the country (from Kingswood, TX and later Douglasville, GA), but if you check the tracking numbers with USPS.com, they have the same route from Michigan City, IN => Gary, IN => Chicago => Longmont (final destination). They also were both issued from the same bad bank account (Orion Fed. Credit Union).

Note:  Where available, I have documented everything, from the main fraud/scam report, to the daily Google Hangouts dialog, to every deposit, withdrawl and subsequent deposit to a vendors' account, to every shipping envelope, tracking log, as well as all parties (manager, associates, vendors), with emails and phone where available.  These reports will be made available to the FBI, RipoffReport, ReportScam and SpamGuard (and more).

Note1:  To sucure the Google Hangouts transscripts of this scam, see https://tr.im/ripoff0010 and for a copy of the deposit, withdrawl, and subsequent deposit receipts, plus check sample and shipping collateral see https://tr.im/ripoff0011 - these are PDFs and as such cannot be uploaded as images.