Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Award on behalf of TATA MOTORS, fraudulent or genuine?


Following conversation with Ms Anu of TATA MOTORS, Jamshedpur office on phone no. 0657-6450112 and Mr Dipak of TATA MOTORS, Ranchi office on phone no. 0651- 6450154, it has come to light that the advertisement in Hindustan, a newspaper dated January 6, 2013 on page no. 14 in Bhojpur edition about a picture identification competition appears questionable and dubious. The scanned copy of the advertisement is given below: 



At 10.28 AM, January 11, 2012, there was a call from 07782059087 of Prakash Verma who introduced himself as someone speaking on behalf of Tata Motors. When he was confronted with which advertisement promoting the product of the competitor of Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki Alto. He was speechless and he said he will ask him Madam Soni to explain. When confronted with the statement of Ms Anu of TATA MOTORS, Jamshedpur office who said the award is fake and fraudulent. He had no answers.

At 10.35, January 11, 2012 there was a call from 8229029338 of Sanjay Kumar who said he was speaking from Tata Motors, Guwahati. He also failed to explain the genuineness of the award. 
  
At 8.24 AM on January 10, 2012, there was a call from 8227810638 of Anil Agarwal who introduced himself as the ADG of the Face to Face Contest of Tata Motors. He explained that his staff members goofed up in explaining the procedure. He attempted to provide convincing arguments about the genuineness of the contest, advertisement and the award. His tone and tenor of engagement was sounded more sophisticated than the previous callers. But he could not provide convincing response to the question as to why a contest which is meant to promote the cars of Tata Motors is advertising Maruti Suzuki's Alto car, which is its competitor. He said that it was the mistake of the advertisement agency that was hired to put the advertisement. On behalf of Himanshu Pandey it was argued that the genuineness of the contest, advertisement and award can only be established if the same is communicated in writing.          

Earlier, heated arguments on January 9, 2012 with Nirmal Raj, Anil Prasad, Shriram Kumar and Ranjit Sinha made these so-called officials of Tata Motors reveal their SBI Account no.s to convince that they are not fake. Their account numbers are as under: 32582042291, 32555652764, 32555655548, 32501183497 respectively.     

It all began with a phone call from Manisha who claimed to be speaking on behalf of TATA Motors on January 8, 2013) from her number 9661407183 to inform Himanshu Pandey who had responded to an advertisement in Hindustan, a newspaper dated January 6, 2013 on page no. 14 in Bhojpur edition, Bihar that he is the second winner in a picture identification competition. He got the call on his no. 9546903977. 

He was informed by the lady that he has won the second prize in a competition where there were three awards. As per the advertisement, the first award was Tata Safari, The second award was Alto, The third award is Nano. She introduced herself as representing TATA Motors company, Jamshedpur. She asked him that if he wants to claim the award, he should deposit Rs 3500 for registration and if he wants to claim the money deposit Rs 2500 for registration in the SBI Bank Account no. 32582042291 of Nirmal Raj on January 8, 2013. The advertisement in Hindustan, a newspaper dated January 6, 2013 on page no. 14 in Bhojpur edition, Bihar had given following three phone numbers: 09931880115, 09931882369, 08757134081. Later, it was told that second prize was Indica. 

When a call was made on 09931880115, one Manoj Verma informed that the advertisement was placed on behalf of TATA MOTORS. A call on 9931882369 to Rohit confirmed that the the advertisement was placed on behalf of TATA MOTOTRS. But they were representing Guwahati branch.   

The SBI account mentioned above is that of Nirmal Raj, the junior manager with TATA MOTORs. This was revealed by Nirmal Raj when a call was made on his number 9572096564. He has confirmed that the advertisement and award is genuine. He informed that he also spoke to his senior manager Sanjay Chaudhary in this regard. But they did not share their contact address and their email id. So far there has been no written communication from their end although prior to the transfer of Rs 3500 they had promised that they will provide written information about it. 

In pursuance of this conversation, a transfer of Rs 3500 in the SBI Bank Account no. 32582042291 of Nirmal Raj was done on January 8, 2013 for registration on behalf of Himanshu Pandey.

Ms Anu of TATA MOTORS, Jamshedpur confirmed that there was no employee by the name of Nirmal Raj, Manisha and Sanjay Chaudhary in Jamshedpur. TATA MOTORS must put these SBI Bank Account no. 32582042291 under scanner in cooperation with SBI. And if they are fake it should ensure that the money is returned those who have been cheated and suitable penal action initiated against these culprits. Else TATA MOTORS must issue a clarification statement about the genuineness of the advertisement and the award and ensure that things are set right if the contest and the award has come under cloud as an outcome of communication failure.

Last updated at 10.40 AM, January 11, 2012

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Hi,

I have got the same things from Tata Motors employees named N K Tiwari, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Sanjay Sharma, Alok Kumar Sharma of Jamshedpur.

Please beware these fraud people. Mahuaa TV Channel also supporting these fraud people to view the advertisements. I also want to file a complaint against Mahuaa TV Channel and Tata Motors.

I have received call from these cell numbers: 7782049520; 9504848305; 7250700525.

Nilesh