Online tutoring-cum-looting advertisements duping people

If you come across advertisements saying you will be trained online to be a tutor, better cross-check the company’s credentials to avoid being hoodwinked into losing money.

In what seems to be a scam involving many metros in the country, many people are allegedly being duped by advertisements promising them the moon.

The victims are using the consumer complaints forum to share how they lost their money to such companies. They made advance payments but did not get what they were promised against the payment.
The companies’ modus operandi is as follows: When you call the phone numbers mentioned in the advertisements, they send you a profile of their company via e-mail. The profile says the company trains people to be tutors for both Indian and foreign students. Once you show interest, the company asks you to transfer an initial amount of `4,500 to a bank account.This is followed by telephonic interviews, during which they ask you to transfer additional amounts.

The companies’ profile says that the tutor will have to teach subjects like maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, History, Geography, Statistics, Economics or Computer Science to American students online.

The companies promise that the aspiring tutors would get job placement with salaries ranging from `14,000 to `18,000 for part-time jobs, and `26,000-`32,000 for full-time jobs.

The victim from Bangalore said she ended up losing `7,500, paid in two instalments.

“I was initially asked to deposit `4,500. Later, a person who claimed to be an HR person for an online company linked with Study Time, asked me to speak directly to one person named Rahul, who asked me to deposit another sum of `3,000.,” she said.

“I waited for 30 working days as asked by them. When that period was over in mid-November, I tried to get in touch with Rahul. But he sounded reluctant to speak to me. And after repeated efforts to know from him what happened, he began threatening me, saying that I should not call him,” she added.

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