BEWARE OF TELEMARKETTING AGENCIES

We all receive number of calls from Telemarketing agencies about various offers(!?). One such call received by one of our employee’s Brother made him lose Rs.45,000 in just about 45 minutes. Wanna know more? Read on.
A girl had been calling him for past 10 days posing she was an ICICI bank employee and the bank offered him a Top-up facility for his existing credit card. He trusted the girl and finally accepted the offer. The girl said the Bank's executive would visit him for completing the formalities and he should provide all the documents and a “Blank” check. He just provided all the documents and signed wherever the executive asked him to do so, and finally gave him a “Blank” check. All this happened at 9:00AM yesterday.
At 9:45AM, he received a message from ICICI Bank that Rs. 45,000 was debited from his account to honor the check given by him.
Got it? The executive just went to a nearest ICICI bank, filled up the blank check and debited the money from the account.
Now the entire family of victim running between Police station (for FIR and other stuff) and ICICI bank (for any possible proof). It is now learned that there is a group of people involved in this crime and they are using ICICI Bank's name for their fraud.
There are few lessons to be learned from this incident.

* Never ever give a blank check to anyone. Don’t forget to write Payee name and mark “A/C” payee only” in the left corner.
* Don’t simply trust telemarketing persons posing a name of a good company.
* If they call you and talk to you about some lucrative offer, ask them to send details by their company E-mail id.