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Frauds are frauds. No fraud is better and respectable than the other. No one is ever heard boasting, "My brother is highly educated, you know. He was recently cheated of Rs 5 lakh on the Internet." It is good to learn that the Reserve Bank is thinking of launching an advertising campaign to educate people about e-frauds. People often keep getting SMSs — Congratulations! You have won £ 200,000.
Our domestic help Sonu immediately deleted one such message saying, "Sahabji, firstly, I cannot count the zeros in the award money, and secondly, when I haven’t purchased a ticket, how can I win?" The question is how an educated person like the former principal of my own Punjab Engineering College, Dr O. S. Sehgal, got lured into transferring Rs 23.48 lakh into the account of a trickster in his greed to win Rs 56 crore. I think as scientists are experimenting to create matter out of nothing, Dr Sehgal possibly attempted to create money out of nothing. I recommend the Government of India to fund Dr Sehgal’s research if they can’t stop such frauds.
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On
contacting, you are told that you need to deposit a few lakhs as
initial fee plus advance tax before they give you the hefty award
money.