Recently, the Bangalore City Police Crime Branch raided the offices of a fake online shopping portal called BigSop.com (now defunct) based on complaints received on Twitter. https://twitter.com/goyal_abhei/status/533609792170782721 According to DCP (Crime) Abhishek Goyal, BigSop.com used to deploy pop-up advertisements that informed users that they had won an iPhone for Rs 599. Once customers registered and paid Rs 599, BigSop would convert it into points/credits instead of delivering the iPhone and force customers to buy some other product (most of it fake) of that price range available on the site. Apparently, several hundreds of customers had been duped by BigSop.com before the raid. As per Goyal, BigSop used ICICI’s payment gateway for processing online payments. Based on the photos of BigSop’s office posted by Goyal on Twitter, it looks like the company had a fully functional call center and quite a big team working for it. However, I don’t think it was fair on part of Bangalore Police to post the photos of the employees on Twitter even if they were in on this scam as well. BigSop was owned and operated by Bangalore-based Scube Solutions, which claims to offer services like website designing, web development, development of e-commerce web applications, and website maintenance services. While the BigSop site is currently not accessible, the product page on Scube Solutions’ website claims that BigSop sells products like mobile phones from Apple, Nokia, and Samsung among others, digital cameras from Canon and Nikon and products various other categories like electronics, health & beauty, home appliances, fashion, music,…
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