Partners baffled by fraudsters

Throughout the year we heard about fraud cases in our channel community,

which were especially rampant in the northern region. During this time of trial,

The DQ Week extended its support to partners and joined hands with them in a bid

to catch the culprits, besides providing timely, wide coverage of the incidents

Engineering college dupes partners



Recently, partners in Ghaziabad and Delhi alleged that Bhaba Institute of

Technology has not paid up dues of several lakhs. Ghaziabad-based Dolphin IT

Solutions was taken for a ride by Kanpur-based engineering college-Bhabha

Institute of Technology (BIT).With payments worth Rs 7,80,000 pending, Kuldeep

Taliyan, Proprietor, Dolphin IT Solutions had filed a case against the institute

to procure the amount.

When The DQ Week tried to help the partner get hold on the fraudster tried to

contact Mahesh Singh Chouhan, Chairman, BIT on his mobile, he did not attend the

calls. At the same time when the publication enquired from the college

authorities, they denied all the allegations.

Comnet Vision deceived by own employee



In yet another case, an employee was sacked for fraud by Delhi-based Comnet

Vision. PK Sharma, CEO, Comnet Vision which suffered a huge monetory loss.

Sharma shared that he had sensed the bad intention of the employee in question

in June, and had been keeping a watch on him. He terminated the employee's

service in November after he indulged in the scam.

Aurangabad partners cheated by a group of fraudsters



In West, fraudsters duped Aurangabad partners of Rs 1.4 lakh. A group of

fraudsters claiming to be officials from APS head office (a devanagari script

company) visited a number of dealers in Aurangabad on the pretext of checking

their premises for pirated software, and subsequently cheated them. The

fraudsters' game finally came to an end when they visited Hi-Tech Computers.

Suspecting foul play, Suhas Lanke the director of the company, asked the

officials to show their ID-cards and the police to show their search warrants.

Lanke then called up all members of the Association of Computer and Traders

(ACT) in Aurangabad. The dealers approached the Aurangabad Police Commissioners'

office and requested the police to


take strict action against the fraudsters.

Similarly, stories of fraud were reported from Nashik also, where two dealers

in the city were cheated

One accused, cheats three partners


In one case Anish Anand, a marketing person who had work experience with various

channel partners and was charged for carrying fraudulent activities.

In July 2005 Silicon Infotech cheated the company for Rs 40,000.

In November 2006 Global Peripherals cheated for Rs 27,500.

In February 2007 OA Compserve finally caught before he could cheat further.

Anand's date of birth and his father's name mentioned in his driving license

and permanent account number were different. While joining OA Compserve, Anand

had claimed that he had worked with HP for four years but when interrogated, the

resources at HP said that he had worked for just four days.

Rajasthan partner defrauded by Olympia



Channel partners in Rajasthan were stumped about how to resolve the issue of

post-sales support of Olympia brand of RAMs. Partners had purchased the products

about a year and a half back, from New Delhi-based Palm Technology. Dealers

across the state had lodged a complaint that Palm Technology has disappeared

from Jaipur all of a sudden and since then they have


not been getting any support from the head office in New Delhi.

Olympia was a famous brand in Rajasthan and dealers were quite happy doing

business with the company. The way it vanished indicated a pre-planned move.

Channel gets hold of fraudster



Our channel community has always got united and fought fraud cases sternly;

the most recent being a Delhi-based company Techtronix Infotech, owned by Nitin

Gupta, which had allegedly cheated associate partners worth Rs 12 to 15 lakh.

Some of the partners who had been targeted by the company were Suryaan

Technologies, Kopal Peripherals, Amazone Peripherals, Aggrawal Computronics, JRM

Infotech, Seiko Manufacturing Co, Micro Max Technologies, and Computer Coins.

According to the partners, Techtronix Infotech was based in Netaji Subhash

Place, New Delhi and had been operating for around nine months in the market.

The amount that was incurred due to his fraudulent activities ranged from Rs

25,000 to Rs 1.65 lakh from various partners. Channel partners, who had been

cheated by the company, collectively hired a professional lawyer to probe into

the case.

Compiled by Lata Singh