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International Consumer Rights Protection Council <consumerhelp@sify.com> sender time Sent at 20:14 (UTC) reply-to ***** to ***** date 30 June 2010 20:14 subject [Consumer Voice India] Country Club of India Ltd. mailing list <Consumer_Voice_India.*****> mailed-by ***** Signed by yahoogroups.com This is to alert you about the fraud and cheating activities of the Country Club of India Limited and Country Vacations who operate from the following main office: Managing Director The Country Club 273, 1st Main, Defence Colony HAL, 2nd Stage Bangalore ***** Country Vacation The Country Club Udyog Bhavan, Gala No. 245 / 246, 2nd floor Sonawala Road, Goregaon (E) Mumbai ***** 1) We are flooded with complaints that this company sends its staff to consumer's homes and lure them with various country club membership offers against huge membership fee. They promise life membership and 1089 sq. feet of land free at Coconut Grove. They also promise free holidays, etc to lure the Indian citizen who always looks out for FREE things in life. . 2) The Coconut grove that they claim is at 50 Kms. distance from Bangalore, is in fact more than 100 Kms away in jungle without any infrastructure. . 3) The company swipes the credit cards of the consumers in their homes and later fills in higher amounts and deducts the money to the maximum credit limits. . 4) There are hundreds of complaints. Following are the consumers who have been cheated recently: Mr. Sandeep D Deore of Pune (Tel: 9004308206) Mrs. Pamela Vishwanath of Mumbai (Tel: 26363110) Mr. Vinodkumar R Agrawal of Pune (Cell: 9860005901) Mr. Tajammul Pasha of Bangalore (Cell: 9986924247) Mr. Shailesh Joshi of Mumbai (Cell: 9820340016) Mr. Samarendra Kishore Maitra of Secundrabad (Cell: ***** Mr. Krishna Chokhani of Mumbai (Cell: 9892346599) Ms. Kavita R Girkar of Thane (Cell: 9987066320) Mr. Jitesh Sharma of Faridabad (Tel: 9810517025) Mr. Tome A Fernandes of Goa (Tel: 0832-2293109) Mr. Ramakrishna Ayinapudi of Bangalore (Cell: 080- 25251129) Mr. Furokh Santoke of Mumbai (Cell: 9820216205) Mr. Mandeep Singh of New Delhi (Cell: 9899294601) Mr. Kedar Sapore of Pune (Cell: 9881101645) Mr. Kush Gupta of Mumbai (Cell: 9967050655) Mr. Ritish Kumar of New Delhi (Cell: 9810604099) Mr. Shailesh Joshi of Mumbai (Cell: 9820340016) Mr. Tajammul Pasha of Bangalore (Cell: 9986924247) Mr. Ramesh Chander of Bangalore ***** Mr. Ravi Thakur of Pune ***** Mr. Sameer Kolhe ***** Mr. Biranchinath Sahu ***** Mr. Brijendra Bharti of Gurgaon ***** Mr. Srikanth.S of bangalore ***** Mr. Abhay Mishra (Cell: 9867462041) Mr. Tarun Kumar of Mumbai (Cell: 9324363851) Mr. Tulasi Vamshikrishna of Gurgaon (Cell: 09910076941) Mrs. Pratah Jain (Cell: 9910837663) Mr. Amit Vyas (Cell: 9448287375) Mr. Sameer Kolhe (Cell: +91 9819463431) Mr. Sumeet Goel (Cell: 9818219380) Mr. Daljeet Singh Ghai (Cell: 9818653600) Mr. Ravi Thakur, Pune (Cell: 09420697536) Mr. Malikahmed Tamboli of Pune (Tel. No. 9850441386) Mr. Donald D Souza of Mumbai ***** Mr. Rajesh P (Cell: 9840059199) Mr. ShivaKumar.B (Cell: 9972583627) Mrs. Sreedhara Chakravarthy R (Cell: 9741765000) Mrs. Vamshi Cell: 9910076941) Mr. Chinmaya Mishra (Cell: 09836060311) Mr. Venugopal (Cell: 9849154320) Mr. Surjit (Cell: 09986744019) Mr. Sai Natesan (Cell: 9900546468) Mr. Rajshekhar Kallatti (Cell: 9900156441) Mr. Sai Natesan (Cell: 9900546468) Mr. Donald of Bangalore (Cell: 9819269807) Mr. Venkat of Bangalore (Cell: 09833555383) Mr. Ramesh Chander of Bangalore (Cell: 9880089210) Mr. Subroto Ghosh of Bangalore (Tel: 080-25236202) Mr. B. V. Mohan of Bangalore (Cell: 9341979860) Mr. Harsh Vardhan of Bangalore (Tel. No. ***** / 9343864711) Mr. Pranav Kumar Singh of Bangalore (Cell: 9880852275) Mr. B. Venkatesh of Bangalore (Tel. No. 080-23326721) Mr. Vivek Butyani of Bangalore (Tel. No. 9880630663) Mr. Arun of Bangalore (Tel.: 9840709668) Mr. Vivek of Bangalore (Tel.: 9840822703) Mr. Ravi of Bangalore (Tel.: 9840964636) Mr. Somanath Hawargi (Cell.: 98451 23505) Mr. Rajendra Singh (Cell.: ***** / 9820118368) Mr. Rami of Hyderabad (Cell.:9866896635) Mr. Jerry Mathew Elias Kovoor of Bangalore (Cell: 9845177673) Mr. Mohan Krishna Eday of Bangalore (Cell: 9916585593) Mr. Raj Shankar Guha (Cell: 9885011750) Mr. Nazeer Ahmed (Cell: 9945333901) Mr. Vijayanand Reddy (Cell: 9959569998) Mr. Balaji (cell: ***** / 9940088222) Mr. Rakesh Pandey Mr. Vinay Orpe (Cell: 9886180325) Mr. Rajeev Bhaskar Mr. Rajarshi (Cell: 9885011750) Mr. Yash Kulshreshtha of UK (+44 786166788) Mr. T P Ranjith (Cell: 9845448406) Mr. T. K. Suresh (Cell: 9969221637) Mr. Vimal Vidyadharan (Cell: 9741769696) Mr. Chennarao Marvatu (chennarao.marvatu@gmail.com) Mr. Prasad I. R. Mr. Ramu K. C. Mr. Srikanth.S Mr. Brijendra Bhart Gurgaon Mr. Biranchinath Sahu Mr. G.Suresh Mr. V.Sridhar Mr. Amit Parti Mr. Dhruv Parekh 5) If you do not take control of the situation, more people will be cheated. . 6) Please register an FIR against the Managing Director of the company and see that they do not approach any more consumers. 7) File your experiences at ***** and ***** 8) Spread the message through consumer groups and blogs. Use the power of internet! 9) Read a report by Times of India, which shows actress Riya Sen promoting Country Club product. ***** 10) Read how holi was celebrated by the cheater Mr. Rajiv Reddy ***** 11) Times of India is promoting this cheater Rajiv Reddy and his Fraud Country Club by publishing advertisements in Times of India front page. 12) Banks should block this company for credit card payments. 13) Please circulate this far and wide to make people aware as police and government is silent about this issue as they have taken bribe from this cheater. I have written to the Police Commissioner, Bangalore, and the Chairman of the Times of India about this fraud many times. This is being issued in the public interest and to protect the consumers from falling prey to the fraudulent activities of the Country Club of India Limited and the Country Vacations. From: International Consumer Rights Protection Council *****