Digital Services, Latur, Maharashtra — demanding money and threatening legal action in spite of completing the work .

Address: Latur, Maharashtra

Website: [email protected]

I am a housewife who out of curiosity was trying online jobs which could be done from home. A girl named Zeba khan with [protected] called me on the 4th of December 2018 with on offer of online form filling job with an attractive pay package. The offer was from a company named Digital Sevices, Latur, , Maharashtra. Though I was hesitant initially she kept me calling me persistently asking me to avail the job and within a matter of few minutes she made me apply for this job on the same date. I was also asked to submit a soft copy of my aadhar and passport size photograph. after that, they had sent me a "License Agreement" in which it was also stated that I won't be paid any remuneration if I failed to submit the work within 10 days or if the work had "Accuracy Errors". The work was to fill 1000 forms in 10 days. I got the work assignment by evening around 6.00 pm on the same day(4th December 2018)in my mail. I promptly started working as soon as I got the work and completed it in 9 days that is on 12th of December. In between, I did not get any guidance or assistance from the said helpdesk of this company which is when I started being suspicious of the authenticity of the above online company. Though I submitted all the 1000 forms correctly on the 9th day, on 12th December 2018. Today on13th December 2018 I received a legal notice threatening me with legal action if I fail to pay them a total sum of 8200rs(Rs.5200- registration charge + Rs.3000 legal liability charge) as they say I had breached one of their agreement resulting in termination of my so-called contract of 11 months. Instead of paying me for the work that I did I am being harassed to pay them a lumpsum amount.. When I tried to contact this company through the contact number provided by the helpdesk [protected] and the contact no. of Zeba Khan (who introduced me to this work), all the numbers were busy even after repeated attempts.

Thereafter there has been continuous harassment with repeated calls and emails from people who address themselves as advocates and lawyers from "advocate associate" with dire consequences if Rs 8200 is not paid within 4 days and if I fail to do so serious consequences await me at Latur Court. the emails come from [protected]@gmail.com mail id and the pdf file (Legal Notice) was addressed from M.Patel, advocate, enrollment no.2203/2018.

I wanted to bring this incident to light as they do have the soft copy of my aadhar and I am skeptical that they may misuse it since it is a Bogus company.