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The following is the
story of a fraudulent firm, named Sunshine International, based in New Delhi,
which has been cheating many Indians for the last six years or so. This is to
alert my blog readers regarding how some fraudulent firms can cheat you very easily.
I am a victim in this scenario. This is my report for my dear honest Indians. I
welcome your aid and advice, if any.
ADDRESS
OF THE FIRM
Sunshine
International,
Factory
No.38, Plot No. 306,
Street
No.3, Dabri, Palam Road, New Delhi – 110045.
Email: ssinternational.455@rediffmail.com
ssinternational632@gmail.com
Ph:
9211244120, 9717571258
PROPRIETOR OF
THE FIRM
R
P Shah
OTHER STAFF I
KNEW ABOUT
Muskan
– Customer Service Executive
Santhosh
– Sales and Marketing Manager
Mukesh
– Technician
Pintu
Singh – Technician
Rajesh
Singh – Technician
A SHORT NOTE
ABOUT EACH OF THESE PERSONS
R
P Shah never appears to anybody, as far as I know. You imagine him as the
proprietor of this firm. Since big bosses are not supposed to communicate to
ordinary people, in general, I never got an opportunity to see or interact with
this boss of the firm.
Muskan
attends most of your calls. She can speak Telugu and Hindi well. She talks
sweetly with you until you pay money to them to buy some machine from them.
Thereafter she talks carelessly and angrily with you. She explains you rules
whenever you ask her for something from them. In short, she is trained as a brainless
cheat to talk carelessly with innocent clients. I experienced it many times. I
could not correct her because she was talking about rules always.
Santosh
communicated with me regarding dispatch of paper cup raw material and receipt
of finished goods from me. He always maintained a tone of patience, respect and
affection for me. I never saw him because he sits in his New Delhi office only
as far as I know.
Mukesh
came to fit my paper cup machine initially. He came all the way down from New
Delhi to spend with me for two hours only working on the machine. He spent rest
of the time in train journey only. Imagine him in comparison to Barack Obama.
Pintu
Singh and Rajesh Singh came to my rented abode, second time, to fit a new 1 HP
motor into my paper cup machine because the first motor, which came with the machine,
got damaged in transport. I found them as gentlemen because they did their
assigned work here and left for New Delhi.
NATURE OF
SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL
If
you search on Google, typing up this name, you certainly find some details
about this firm. One link is
http://www.tradeindia.com/Seller-4417060-Sunshine-International/
They
sell seven kinds of machines. The names of these machines are:
1. Manual
Machine
2. Automatic
Horizontal Single Die Machine
3. Automatic
Horizontal Double Die Machine
4. Automatic
Vertical Single Die Machine
5. Automatic
Vertical Double Die Machine
6. Fully
Automatic Roll Model Machine (Single Die)
7. Fully
Automatic Roll Model (Double Die)
OTHER DETAILS OF THESE MACHINES
They
email a word file with the following information before allowing you to jump
into their dirty and dangerous pit of business. I am providing the following
information based on that file emailed by Muskan to me earlier this year. The related images could not be pasted here.
1. Manual
Machine
Amount: 20,000/-
Makes: 6,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
2. Automatic
Horizontal Single Die Machine
Amount: 50,000/-
Makes: 10,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
3. Automatic
Horizontal Double Die Machine
Amount: 1,
00,000/-
Makes: 20,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
4. Automatic
Vertical Single Die Machine
Amount: 70,000/-
Makes: 12,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
5. Automatic
Vertical Double Die Machine
Amount: 1,
20,000/-
Makes: 24,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
6. Fully Automatic Roll Model Machine (Single
Die)
Amount: 2,
25,000/-
Makes: 10,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
7. Fully Automatic Roll Model (Double Die)
Amount: 3,
50,000/-
Makes: 20,000
pieces in 8 hrs.
Business Description: After receiving your finished goods, the
company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.
SYSTEM OF THEIR BUSINESS
They give short classified ads in regional
dailies stating that one can earn anywhere between 40,000 and 60,000 rupees per
month doing this paper cup manufacturing business. Generally many unemployed,
innocent and helpless youth get attracted towards this business venture. Some
of them call up to above phone numbers. It is the entrance gate to the hell
they are going to witness soon, in case they desire to enter it. I am one in
case.
MODE OF PAYMENT
Muskan asked me what machine I want to buy to
get into this business. I opted for Automatic Vertical Single Die Machine
considering its low cost and chance to earn considerable amount of money as
proposed by them. I thought I can earn about 50,000 rupees every month working
on this machine based on this ad and the assuring words of Muskan during my
initial talk with her. She told me to deposit 64,000 rupees into their current
account number 037805500117 through online money transfer. I did it on 2
July, 2012. They don’t give you any receipt also for it. You have to just
believe in them. I believed in them because we cannot live in India if we
suspect everybody and every firm operating from the holy soil of India! Mera
Bharat Mahan.
From this amount of money, 40,000 rupees is
advance payment for the machine and 24,000 rupees is security deposit for
supply of raw material from them. She said I have to pay the remaining amount
of money 15 days after I receive the machine.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF FRAUD
I briefly explain you how they cheated me.
This is what I experienced so far.
1. They sent me a machine through ARC
transport system within about 30 days after I paid this money to them through
online banking. Shortly their technician Mukesh came to fit my machine
formally. He found that the 1 HP motor, in this machine, got damaged during
road transport. Muskan ordered me to pay 7,000 rupees to Mukesh towards
technician fee. I did it and also sent the
damaged motor back soon on their advice.
2. They sent their technicians Rajesh Singh
and Pintu Singh on 8 September, 2012, with a new 1 HP motor. They fitted this
machine and went back saying that it works well thereafter but it did not
happen when I started working on it.
3. I spent about 5,000 rupees to get it
repaired thereafter by an experienced local mechanic. I could not work on it
for about 10 days due to this repair work. Muskan told me that she does not
send their technicians anymore to my place if any problem arises in my machine
in future because I got it repaired by a local mechanic instead of waiting for
their mechanics to come to my place in a month or so. She means that I should
wait for about 30 days or so just to see that my machine works well. She is
very intelligent, strategic and stupid in her answers to me. I bore it because
my ball was in their court.
4. My only intention was to earn more money
making more paper cups on it but I underwent many problems in this process.
Nobody came forward to work beside me on this machine because it is dangerous
work. Two hot dies press a paper into cup when I insert it between them
carefully. They cut our fingers if we are careless. I have to pay 200 rupees per
day at least to a worker to pull cut cups out from between these dies. No adult
desires to get into this dangerous work for 200 rupees when there are many easy
options to them out there in the open market. I managed to lure a dropout into
this work. He worked with me for four days and disappeared considering the
danger and hard work involved in this work.
5. My wife Srijana and I worked on it hard to
somehow earn some money from this venture. She did extraordinary hard work in
this regard. I only inserted square shaped sheets of papers between the two dies.
She pulled cut cups from between the dies, paired them up and packed them
simultaneously. One can understand the critical and difficult nature of this
work only on seeing in person while we are working on this machine this way.
6. We prepared 1, 07,000 paper cups by 13
October, 2012, undergoing all these difficulties. We packed them into 15
cardboard boxes carefully, labeled them and dispatched them to the office of
VRL Logistics at Rama Road in New Delhi, on 14 October, 2012, from the office
of VRL Logistics in Tuni, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. This material
reached the office of VRL Logistics at Keerti Nagar, in New Delhi, on 22
October, 2012 around 10:22 A.M. IST based on the information I got online when
I checked the website of this transport system. The folks of Sunshine
International collected this material from this office around 2 November, 2012.
I searched online, located the existence of my consignment and informed them
about it. Then only they collected my consignment. They took that much time to
take my finished goods to their office. My wife and I were waiting for the
related money after the counting of the cups at their end. On 17 November,
2012, when I enquired Muskan about the payment for this material, she said that
about 27,000 cups of this consignment got damaged and the remaining amount of
money is deducted towards the balance cost of machine. I got this answer after
struggling in this risky venture from 2 July, 2012 to 17 November, 2012. What
must be the feeling and suffering of my wife, who worked hard sitting beside me
for many days like a bonded labourer? How shall I earn 50,000 rupees in this
process if they take weeks and weeks for everything from their end?
THE ACTUAL FRAUD IN THEIR BUSINESS
I try to explain the core of their fraudulent
business below.
1. They said that the cost of this machine is
70,000 rupees but in open market, one does not buy it for 10,000 rupees also.
They make these machines with low quality material in their factory and sell
them at very high costs thinking that all other Indians are innocent and
foolish. So, initially, just by selling this machine only, they make a profit
of 60,000 rupees. You should not talk about these things. Even if you talk
about it, they don’t tell you anything about it.
2. They send 1000 sheets of paper cup raw
material in one bundle. We need to get each of these sheets cut into 24 square
shaped pieces at some print unit because we cannot do it manually. You need to
find one printer to do it for you. They do it when they have time for it.
3. We cannot make as many cups as they
proposed, in reality. If they said that we can make 12,000 paper cups on my
machine, it means I can make 8,000 paper cups only on it. They cheat you saying
that you can make higher number of cups to lure you into this mire.
4. We have to pack 100 paper cups into one
suitable polythene cover. We have to pack such 50 polythene cover packs into
one cardboard box. We have to buy suitable cardboard boxes for their dispatch.
We have to pack every cardboard box very carefully.
5. It takes about 10 days for a consignment
to reach New Delhi from Tuni generally. Sometimes it may take 14 days also. We
have to simply wait for all these days and hear some news from that end. They don’t
call you up proactively. After repeated calls from our end, they collect our
consignment from the office of road transport.
6. They may take any number of days to count
our material. Then, they say that most of our material got damaged during
transport or that we sent wrongly shaped cups. We cannot check the reality
going to their office in person. So, we have to accept whatever they say in
this regard. They play with you like anything in this respect. They test your
patience!
7. They don’t send adequate raw material
continuously. If we ask them for four bundles for a week continuously, they
send two bundles after another week. We need to wait 10 days to get it and
about four days to get it cut into suitable square shaped pieces by the folks
of print units in our region. It is an unreliable system of dispatch of raw
material always.
8. This machine works on single phase
current. It may consume about eight units of commercial type current if we work
on it for about 10 hours. Power cuts are prevalent in the state of Andhra
Pradesh now. So, we can work on it only when there is power supply.
9. Three strong and hard-working persons have
to work on this machine continuously for about 10 hours to make 10,000 paper
cups. If we calculate the costs involved in this venture of self-employment
like cost of paper cutting process at a print unit, cardboard boxes, labour
costs, packing process and transport system, we can earn about 10,000 rupees in
a month, if we work continuously for a month every day for eight hours. It is also
not possible for us because they don’t send raw material adequately.
10. We need to be alert and highly careful
every second when making cups on this machine because the hot dies burn our
fingers if we touch them by mistake. They cut our fingers if we put between
them by mistake or in hurry of making them fast. They pay 25 paise for every
cup made, sent and accepted by them. For every 25 paise, you are facing a risk
of losing your finger or getting electric shock. They are not responsible for
anything that happens due to this machine because we opted for it for the sake
of livelihood. Many are doing it in India daily.
11. This machine may fail to work at any time
because its quality is so. You need to call a local mechanic and get it repaired.
If you do so, Muskan says that it is a blunder and that their technicians won’t
come here anymore. You need to wait for a month or so for their technicians to
come and repair our machine. Is it justifiable? She bothers you in every single
imaginable way from day one whenever you call her up. I experienced it silently
and helplessly because I deposited 64,000 rupees into their account just like
that to make a living this way!
12. Once the money is in their current
account, one can do nothing with them. One becomes a beggar. I experienced such
life during the period between 2 July, 2012 and 17 November, 2012. They don’t
scold you or harm you directly but indirectly as explained above. You have to
wait for what they do but they don’t do anything as you desire or expect from
them. You are just like a helpless slave to them. Money is in their bank
account. There is no proof for it. You decided to make a living out of their
venture of self-employment. You are helpless. They are miles away from you. You
cannot reach them in one hour. You cannot go by airplane because such people
don’t do such business with such rogues of India. You simply suffer in
yourself. My wife, I and others familiar to me experienced such situation
during all these days.
13. Muskan asked for my bank account number
about one month ago. I thought she did so to deposit the money into my account
after getting my first consignment but later I understood that she did so
simply to trick me. Why should she ask for my bank account number when she
knows that they deduct all that initial money for their machine cost?! You
think that girls are soft and sweet. I lost this impression after communicating
with Muskan during all these days. She talks carelessly. She considers you like
a dog on streets. I experienced such communication from her. She cannot write
even one sentence in English correctly. She never replies to your email. She
does not change her subject line also when replying to you but just hits reply
button if there is some disappointing information for you. I got such replies
only from her so far.
14. Pintu Singh and Rajesh Singh, who fitted
1 HP motor in my machine on 8 September, 2012, got me sign on an agreement of
two papers. R P Shah, the great builder and king of the kingdom of this
fraudulent business, got some lawyer scribble nonsense in these documents. I
signed on them for the formality of it. As per moral standards of ordinary
human beings, even the other party has to sign those papers and send back to
me. Muskan did not do it till now. It means I should not have any proof with me,
which may subject them to legal and moral distress in future. So, they commit
frauds very strategically. They could cheat me working from New Delhi. I am
M.A. English, blogger, writer, dreamer, idealist and visionary of India, as I
often think about me. R P Shah can cheat even thinkers and dreamers like me.
What about ordinary people in India? Can they write the stories of their pain
and getting cheated by others this way?
15. I always wanted to earn money honestly. I
thought this is an honest way for earning money. It is true also because we can
earn money through a lot of hard work and patience this way. They did not pay
me a little money even after waiting for 100 days. Are they honest? Are they
reliable? They have a big work place in New Delhi, the capital of India, where VVIPs
like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh are also living. They have
an address. They are not cheating me from the sky or other country but just from
my own country. My mistake is believing that all Indians are not cheats. I
desired to live honestly depending on a fellow’s business originating from New
Delhi. I got into this venture depending on a short classified ad given in Eenadu. I admire Ramoji Rao. That person
only cheated me accepting such ads into his newspaper to make a little money.
If Ramoji Rao cannot identify fraudsters before accepting ads into his
newspaper, possessing so much of wealth and repute in India, with so many
television channels and print media valor, how can poor, innocent, helpless and
ideal Indians like me can recognize them initially? How can I know whether one
is honest or not? Did Ambedkar or Kalam address this issue so far? I took about
100 days to understand the fraudulent nature of R P Shah, Sunshine
International and all the members working in it publicly.
16. I took a loan of one lakh rupees,
pledging the gold ornaments of my wife Srijana, on 2 July, 2012, from the
office of Manappuram Finance, at Tuni, to get into this venture of
self-employment and make a living through hard work. I am paying interest for
it. When do I get profit from this venture to get back those gold ornaments? I
could not earn even one rupee from 1 August, 2011, ever since I left the job in
Hyderabad with a firm. I jumped into this venture of self-employment just to
come out of that debt and distress trap. Sunshine International further
complicated my life. My father-in-law, an ordinary Indian, working in an
agricultural farm, away from Hyderabad, miles away from his native place, is
funding my family for all these months. I depended on the business network of R
P Shah to come out of this ditch. I wanted to live with self-respect doing
something on my own at home, being in access to my family. It was not possible
for me doing a job. Should not I desire to make a living through
self-employment depending on another Indian, Mr. R P Shah? How many Indians are
being cheated and bothered by him every day? Can Information Act regulate and
correct Mr. R P Shah?
17. Ever since I bought this machine and
started making paper cups on it, many familiar and unfamiliar ones cautioned me
about the nature of business ventures originating from distant places like New
Delhi? What if they cheat me cruelly? What is the purpose of working hard on a
dangerous machine, along with my wife, depending on the credibility of R P
Shah, a person whom I never saw in my life? I still continued to trust my
fellow Indians in New Delhi.
18. I wrote a long letter to R P Shah
explaining in what sense his business venture is going on in a very wrong
direction because it is my moral responsibility as a thinker and dreamer of
India. There was no reply from him or others related to him. Did he read that
letter? Can he understand English? Does not he need English to cheat other
Indians like me? Is it enough if he simply establishes such a fraudulent
business venture and recruits a bunch of folks to do it on his behalf? R P Shah
shares these business secrets with you if you can meet him in person in New
Delhi. Meet his staff members at least to know how to cheat fellow Indians. Is
this the kind of culture Hindus are learning going to temples frequently?
Perhaps R P Shah must be requesting his favourite god to forgive him for living
depending on the pain, suffering and tears of his fellow Indians. He cannot
live without bothering and cheating others! I understood it!
19. How can I correct trained and experienced
fraudsters like R P Shah, Muskan, Santosh, Mukesh, Rajesh Singh and Pintu
Singh? They know that I am a writer. Rajesh Singh took a copy of my book Stories of Love and Beauty when he came
to my house to repair my machine along with Pintu Singh. So, they believe that
they can cheat anybody publicly. Shall I consult a lawyer? Shall I go to a court
of law? How much money and time should I further invest in this process? Shall
I beat or kill each of these idiots publicly or secretly? Can/should I do it?
Others call me a sinner and criminal if I do so? Do police in New Delhi do me
justice if I consult them? Can Anna Hazare or Kiran Bedi fight for me in this
regard? Should a writer and dreamer become a shameless parasite and helpless
victim to get justice in this nation? Then what about millions of ordinary
Indians, who simply believe in others every day? The moment I desire to live
honestly in India, depending on my pure hard work and standards as an
individual, somebody is cheating me carelessly and shamelessly. This time it is
R P Shah and his staff members at Sunshine International!
20. I don’t think I could narrate my story of
pain and suffering, in order, in this flow of letters but I tried for it. Pain
has no order. If anybody has doubts about anything in the process of my being
hurt and getting cheated by the folks of Sunshine International, I answer them.
I will post the letter, which I wrote for R P
Shah, earlier, and sent him by post, on this blog site, very soon, for all of
you to read and understand this case study more clearly.
