The Internet is full of ‘make money online’ scams, we all are aware of this sad fact. Unfortunately, the Work At Home industry is not immune against illegitimate job offers, and often times it’s almost impossible to recognize these scams until the famous ‘bleep’ hits the famous fan.
The following is a very sophisticated, elaborate international scam that started early in 2015, leaving behind a trail of defrauded work from home folks, as well as thousands of innocent victims whose credit card information was used illegally. It was brought to the attention of the authorities just ten short weeks ago and is under investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspectors and the FBI.
The story I am going to tell you today is about Reshipping or Package Forwarding Fraud, how it works and the parties involved:
The Perpetrators: PackAnyWere And Package Planet
Packanywere.com:
(the missing ‘h’is not typo of mine, that’s how they spelled it) popped up by the end of 2014, offering a ‘work-at-home’ job as Logistics Coordinator. The base pay was $1500 per month PLUS $10 for each package shipped out. The company promised to reimburse all business expenses, including expenses for travel, entertainment, and similar items.
Address: PackAnyWere LLC., 1210 Dutch Neck Rd., Middletown, DE 19709
Phone: toll free (855) 339-3924, fax (855) 295-9072, email: info@packanywere.com
PackagePlanet
www.packpl.com followed suit just 3 months later with an identical home job offer. The website was completely different, of course, but the purpose was the same.
Address: 2005 Merrick Rd., STE. 122, Merrick NY, 3247
Phone: 1-646-593-7732 (cellular phone)
Susan – Work At Home Victim of Reshipping Scam
PackAnyWere Employment ContractSusan (not her real name) lives in Alabama and like so many other people went online searching for a way to make money from home. She found what she thought was a perfect fit when she cam across the website from PackAnyWere. The offer looked great; she could work from home and the pay was pretty darn good.
She applied, was accepted and signed the employment contract and necessary tax forms. It took only a few days before packages began to arrive in the mail. She was instructed to open the packages, inspect and inventory the content, and then ship the items to addresses provided by PakAnywere.
The merchandise was mainly tech stuff like computers, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, iPhones, tablets, but also higher priced hunting and boating accessories.
Unsuspecting, Susan went about her business handling about five or so shipments per week. She was supposed to get paid every month, and after about 4 weeks, there was a wire transfer made into her bank account.
The amount was a whopping $28,000 and totally unusual for Susan’s banking history. This raised a big red flag with the manager of the Credit Union, and the security specialist with the bank could verify that those funds were fraudulent.
The bank informed Susan what they found out and that the company is not kosher. Susan called the company and they explained to her that there was a bookkeeping mistake, she should deduct her “pay for the month” and transfer the rest of the money to their associates in Romania.
Luckily for Susan, her banker got suspicious and they found out about the fraud, otherwise Susan would have to pay all the money back. Unfortunately, she did not get paid for the work she did, and did not get reimbursed for her expenses.
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Where Did Susan Send The Merchandise
The Postal Inspectors were able to track most of the packages Susan sent out. Some were sent to a mail drop in Brooklyn, New York, and the workers there claimed to have no idea what’s going on. The others were shipped to a freight company, Ukraine Express, which then sent them to Russia.
Unnamed Victims of the PackAnyWere Reshipping Scam
You may have guessed it by now that all the merchandise received and reshipped by Susan and many others that fell victim to this scam, had been bought online with either stolen credit cards or fraudulently obtained account information.
Postal and FBI investigators are looking into thousands of reports from individuals as well as retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others. The damage inflicted goes into the hundreds of thousand of dollars, and counting.
Wash, Rinse & Repeat – Enter PackagePlanet
The gangsters running these scams know very well that sooner or later they will be exposed and have a contingency plan. As soon as the cover of PackAnyWere blew off, another similar operation popped up. PackagePlanet was waiting in the wings to take over. A different look website, different address and phone numbers, same scam. I am not sure for how long this operation was active, but it shut down about 4 weeks ago.
How could Susan get so easily duped?
That’s easy to understand if you look at their websites, which are designed very professionally with about 14 to 18 pages and lots of information. The images of delivery drivers in their trucks, a worker on a forklift driving a stack of packages around, the Employment Contract and Tax Forms make the whole thing appear 100% legitimate.
Then consider the work at home opportunity and the pay. It’s relatively easy work at a fixed $1,500 salary, plus $10 for each shipment and bonus, and it definitely has a great appeal for people like Susan. You could easily do 25 shipments per week; that would bring your monthly pay check to $2,500……not bad at all.
Of course, in hindsight it’s easy to point out the obvious signs on their websites:
The delivery truck image: No logo, license plate some where in Europe
Warehouse and forklift: Name on roll cage bar: Miami Industrial (Image lifted from their website)
Scamadviser.com: Who would think about looking up website information there?
Making $2,500 a month for shipping packages? As they say “if it sounds to be too good…….”, you know the ending.
What Should You Do?
1) Don’t get involved in any reshipping or mail/package forwarding companies. Believe me, they are all scams (ABC News Video). In our day and age there is no need for services like that. There are millions of online transactions every day, where people purchase merchandise, and companies like Amazon ship the products to the buyer’s address or to a different shipping address. These transactions are traceable. On the other hand, these criminals that use stolen credit cards or account information cover their tracks by using folks like our Susan as recipient of the goods and the electronic tail will lead to them.
2) Cover your ass if you are involved already, stop what you are doing and report to the authorities immediately. Hopefully you saved all paperwork, email-correspondence etc., because when ‘the boys in blue’ the Feds or Postal Inspectors come knocking, you need to be able to prove that you are a victim yourself. Here are a couple links to report to.
Postal Inspectors: 1-800-876-2455, or file online hereInternet Crime Complaint Center: Also file with the government here3) Fight back and help others to avoid falling victim to this scam. Let us know your experience in the comment box below and list company name, email address and contact names so that others searching for info can find out what’s going on.
Let me be the first to post this SCAM ALERT. Here is a list of companies that are actively running this scam as we speak (July-24-2015)
Arion Forwarding Services LLC – Tyler James
mckinsey-company.com (see image)
PackExpert LTD
M&G Logistic services LLC
Worldwide Supply Express (WSE)
SCM Logistics
US Pack and Ship LLC
Conclusion:
As I said earlier it’s not easy to recognize these scams if you are unaware and unsuspecting. I hope that my yapping helped you to avoid falling victim and saved you the embarrassment and the headaches poor Susan experienced. That leaves open the question “how you can make money from home“.
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That’s all for today. Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to let us know what’s on your mind.
John Worthy
May 06, 2011 – Aanjaneya Lifecare entered into the capital market with an IPO of 50,00,000 equity shares. Issue Price: Rs. 234 Per Equity Share, Issue Size: Rs. 117.00 Crore. Aanjaneya Lifecare was subsequently named as Dr Datson Labs Ltd. It is alleged that Dr Kannan Vishwanath misused some of this money.
(5) Fraud No. 5. As per Annual Report FY 2013 – 14, Dr Datson Labs had two world class R&D Centres at Mangalore and Bangalore. Subsequently what has happened to them is not know. Have they been sold and if yes where is the money from its proceeds?
Fax: +9122 2522 3521 i.e. Dr Datsons office was alleged to be fraudulently registered by Dr Kannan Vishwanath on his name using backdated stamp paper wef 2011 and in Jun 2015 it was transferred on his father / mother’s name.
(7) Fraud No 7.
(a) Dr Kannan Viswanath has started (backdated) Hong Kong base company Windsonn Exim Limited. Its board members as per its site are, (i) Dr Kannan Viswanath MD, (ii) Mr Arthure Kibble, based at UK, (iii) Dr. Rajendra Kamat, and (iv) Ing Alex Eens (President). Patents belonging to Dr Datson Labs are shown as belonging to Windsonn Exim Limited also. Is it possible for two companies to hold same 15 patents.
(i) WINDSONN EXIM LIMITED - HONG KING, Office : 903, 9/F Dannies House, 20 Luard Road, Wanchai , Hong Kong SAR,
Phone no. : +85221159251
Fax : +85221159251
(ii) WINDSONN EXIM PVT LTD – INDIA, Corporate Office : Matruchaya, Plot No 34, Postal Colony, Chembur, Mumbai 400071 India, Phone no. : +91 22 25243678 / 25270017
Fax : + 91 22 25262890 and
(iii) R & D CENTRE & WAREHOUSE, Windsonn House, Plot No W-91D, MIDC Taloja -401208 Raigad Dist Maharashtra State India
Phone no. : +91 22 27402223, Fax : +91-22-27411837
Address at sr (ii) and (iii) belong to Dr Datson Labs
Mr Arthure Kibble, based at UK appears to be an Advocate Mr ARTURO A. KIBBLE who has appeared many times in Bombay HC in the matters of Dr Dason Labs Ltd
In these frauds Dr Kannan has been assisted by his father, Mr Kasi Vishwanathan. Dr Rajendra Kamat, ex Non Exe Chairman, CFO and Company Secy werwe aware of it by virtue of their posts. Also Mr Kishore Iyengar, a close confidant of Dr Kannan Vishwanath is alleged to have been deeply associated in all the fraudulent activities of Dr Kannan Vishwanath.
Dr Kannan Vishwanath along with his father Sh Kashi Vishwanath, as MD of Dr Datson Labs, Mumbai based listed company has cheated our country and thousands of shareholders by siphoning off around Rs 300 Cr of Dr Datson Labs and indulging in many other frauds which are as follows :-
Dr Kannan Vishwanath
FRAUDS Committed by Dr Kannan Vishwanath, ex MD of Dr Datson Labs Ltd, former name Aanjaneya Lifecare Limited ( herein after referred as DDL ), Mumbai based listed company. (India), are as follows, though I could detect only three but there could be more :-
(1) Fraud No. 1.
DDL had 15 patents which Dr Kannan got registered with Controller General of Patents, however, only 12 were registered in the name of DDL rest three were registered jointly in his name and his father Mr Kashi Vishwanathan, though these were intellectual property of DDL. List of registration of these patents is attached.
(2) Fraud No. 2
(a) In 2011 / 2012 it was decided by him to buy Apex Drugs, Hyderabad based unlisted company for DDL for an amount of Rs 250 Cr by taking loans from Banks and as approved by them as per Dr Kannan. He paid an amount Rs 80 Cr by cheque as advance to Apex Drugs and further gave them Rs 50 Cr worth of DDL shares. Later it was stated that that deal was cancelled as banks backed out. Till date there were no efforts made by him to retrieve this amount from Apex Drugs, may be because of his personal interest. My request is that Rs !30 Cr with interest be retrieved from Apex Drugs and credited in the a/c of DDL.
(b) Details of Apex Drugs is, (i) Mr Ghanshyam Kurmi - Managing Director, Mr.Ravi Gangapalli –Chief Operating Officer and Mr. Sandeep Kumar Verma – Director, (ii)
(3) Fraud No. 3
(a) Fair Success (HK) based at Hong Kong was incorporated in 2012. I have not been able to find out who was its promoter, it appears he was close associate / relative of Dr Kannan.
(b) In 2013 it was bought by Dr Kannan for DDL for a sum of Rs 250 cr, proceeds of first FCCB, In reply to my mail DDL office intimated me that it has been bought because of 15 patents Fair Success ( HK ) had. It started operating as 100 % subsidiary of DDL wef 29 July 2013.
(c) On further scrutiny of patents it was fond that these patents were same which belonged to DDL. That means these were sold to Fair Success (HK) before it was bought by DDL. For how much amount Dr Kannan sold these patents is mystery but estimated amount could be around Rs 250 to 300 Cr. This amount was not credited in the a/cs of DDL and hence siphoned off, could be in his / his relative / close associate account abroad. A very serious fraud and needs further investigation. Again my request is that this amount be retrieved and credited in DDL’s a/cs.
In these frauds Dr Kannan has been assisted by his father, Mr Kashi Vishwanath. Dr Rajendra Kamat, ex Non Exe Chairman, CFO and Company Secy were aware of it by virtue of their
Complaint being filed after the hospital was instructed to do so by the deputy chief of the BMC
The KEM Hospital at Parel will be filing a complaint soon against Dr. M.L. Saraf, officials told the ADC on Wednesday. The complaint is being filed after Deputy Commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sanjay Deshmukh ordered the hospital to do so.
Dean of KEM Hospital Avinash Supe said that the legal department of the hospital will be filing the complaint at Bhoiwada police station. “We had received the order from Dehsmukhji and we referred the complaint to our legal department. At first we thought whether we should file a FIR against the doctor but there is already a FIR against him at another police station. We will be filing the complaint against him at the police station,” said Supe.
Supe said that he had sent a letter to the police station to file a complaint against Saraf. “I don't know under which sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) the case will be filed. I had sent a letter requesting them to do so,” said Supe. Senior police inspector (SPI) Sunil Tondwankar also could not reveal any details of the case.
The complaint is being filed after a Colaba resident, Nandini Suchde had sent a letter to Deshmukh in December 2014. Saraf also has two other FIRs filed against him by Suchde under various sections of the IPC.
Suchde's mother Gitika Ghosh, under Saraf's care died in Bombay Hospital in January 2013. After Ghosh's death, Suchde wrote to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and the Azad Maidan police in July 2013. The cops then wrote to J J Hospital, asking for opinion. On September 27, 2013, Suchde and the police received a letter from J J Hospital, stating Ghosh’s death was due to “professional negligence”.
A case was registered against Saraf and four other doctors on the panel which treated Ghosh, under Sections 309 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 201 (giving false information), 420 (cheating), 467 (forging documents), 471 (fraudulent use of documents) 109 (abetment) of the IPC. Suchde filed a Right To Information (RTI) application with the MMC to ascertain if Saraf was registered with the Council.
A reply in December 2013 stated he was not registered with MMC, and had, in fact, not renewed his licence since 1988. Suchde filed more applications and, armed with the replies, approached the police to file a case. “Dr. Saraf was receiving monthly salaries of Rs 500, Rs 700 and Rs 1,000 during his tenure in KEM hospital from 1975 to 2005. He was also a part of two other reputed institutions. How could he have continued his practice for almost 27 years without a licence?” wondered Suchde.
Saraf is currently a consultant for General Orthopedics, Joint Replacement Surgery and Arthroscopy and the Head of the Orthopedics Department at Bombay Hospital. “I seek justice for my mother and I hope in the near future I get it,” said Suchde.
The ADC has documents with regards to the case that was shared by Nandini Suchde.
1. This is an appeal against the order of the State Commission in a case where medical negligence has been alleged against the Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre and two Doctors, Dr. M.L. Saraf, Consultant, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Dr. P.L. Tiwari, Consultant Physician. The allegation is that Smt. Janaki K. Iyengar, the mother of the Complainant died because of medical negligence on the part of the Opposite Parties. The deceased was 86 years of age. She was suffering from (i) Diabetes Mellitus; (ii) Hypentation; and (iii) Senile Dementia due to Alzheimebs Disease. The deceased on 27th November, 1997, fell from her bed and suffered a fracture of the thigh bone. The nature of the fracture was such that surgical treatment was necessary. There were risks involved in the surgery which were explained to the relatives to the patient including the Complainant by Dr. Saraf. After fully understanding and after balancing the risks involved in operative versus non-operative treatment, the Complainant opted for surgery. After following the usual procedure and taking every precaution the surgery was carried out on 29th November, 1997. Thereafter, some complications developed and the patient ultimately died on 20th December, 1997.
2. The Complainant has no grievance about the decision to operate upon the patient or the surgery that was done. The grievance raised before us is that the patient having considered her physical condition and old age, should have been taken the post-operative ICU which was not done. It may be mentioned that the State Commission has elaborately gone into this aspect of the matter and examined all the medical reports/medical records of the hospital in this regard. The Commission has come to the finding that although initially the patient was advised to be taken to ICU, the decision was later on changed, but care was taken to watch the pulse, blood-pressure, breathing status of the patient and to control the fluid intake with urine output. This decision was taken not to transfer the patient to ICU in the interests of the patient as it was felt that isolated atmosphere of ICU will not be conducive to the patient's recovery. The patient got the full medical care and attention from the nurses and doctors who looked after the patient. The members of the patient's family were also visited the patient.
3. It has further been found that initially the advice was given by Dr. Tiwari that the patient would require "post-operative care/or post operative ICU". A decision was taken bay the Doctors in the best interest of the patient to provide her with best possible attention and personal care of special nurses and the Doctors and not to keep the patient in ICU. The patient's condition after the first few days of the surgery was stable. Unfortunately, the condition of the patient deteriorated. Thereafter, the patient was taken to ICU. However, in spite of the best efforts, the patient died.
4. It has been stated that the post-operative ICU bed was kept ready for the patient as a precautionary measure on 29th November, 1997, the date of the operation. The surgery went off well. She was under observation for a few hours and a decision was taken after taking into consideration of the factors including the patient's progress and response to the post-operative treatment, to shift the patient to her own private room. The Doctors visited the patient several times during the day and night. At night around 1.30 a.m. and 3.30 a.m. Dr. Saraf personally visited the patient to find out that everything was normal. On 30.11.1997 it was noticed that the blood pressure of the patient had gone down. This was attended to by the Doctors, the Nurses very promptly. After initial treatment, she was shifted to the ICU. Her blood-pressure became normal by 5 p.m. on the same day. On 4th December, 1997, as her condition had improved, she was brought back to her own room. By this time, her surgical wound had healed and sutures were removed and she was able to lift her leg. Due to the problem of Senile Dementia, the patient refused oral nutiriton. She had to be shifted to the ICCU on 16th December, 1997 for adequate electrolyte and fluid balancing. The patient developed Aspiration Penumonitisis and expired on 20th December, 1997.
5. The State Commission has examined the facts in extenso and has found that there was no lack of care and attention on the part of the Doctors and the Nurses in treating the patient. What has been highlighted before us is that the patient was not immediately taken to ICU after the operation. But, it has not been proved before us in any way that this has lead ultimately to the death of the patient. Moreover, a conscious decision was taken to keep the Petitioner in her cabin having regard to the stable condition of her at that time. The decision was taken after taking into consideration various factors which we have referred to earlier in the judgment. It cannot be said that the decision was
taken arbitrarily or without considering the pros and cons of the age and the condition of the patient.
6. On the facts found by the State Commission, we are of the view that it is difficult to hold that the patient's death was caused by any negligence or by the fact that the patient was not immediately kept in ICU, after the operation. The appeal is dismissed with no order as to costs.
India TV News Desk [Updated: 07 Jul 2016, 17:07:30]
Mumbai: Five top Mumbai doctors have been charged with homicide after a patient died during treatment at Bombay Hospital in January.
Nandini Suchde, 46, a resident of Colaba area, whose mother Gitika Ghosh died during treatment for femur fracture at Bombay hospital in January, has alleged that her mother died due to negligence on doctors' part.
An FIR has been lodged against Dr M L Saraf, Dr P L Tiwari, Dr Parikh, Dr N Bharucha and Dr Borges at Azad Maidan police station and all five have been booked under sections 309 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 201 (giving false information), 420 (cheating), 467 (forging of documents), 471 (fraudulent use of documents), 109 (abetment) and a few other charges.
