Sometime during first week of November I saw this advertisement about Srilatha for SAP BI/BO training on www.sulekha.com. I contacted Srilatha as per the number provided on the website. She agreed to give training and charging USD 800 but agreed to collect money in installments 450 and then 350.
To transfer the money she provided Bank of America details of her relative Madhavi Bobba (The BofA details were provided to me by SriLatha over the email and I have maintained it for my records). Madhavi Bobba is believed to reside in Irving, Texas, that's what could be made of from her zip code which was furnished by Srilatha to do the money transfer.
I initiated the transfer of $450 but by mistake the transfer of $450 happened two times back to back. I immediately called up Srilatha and told her to revert the extra $450 which by mistake went into her A/c. She refused to do so and told me that the remaining $450 will be adjusted towards the $350 and for the remaining $100 she will give me two months access of software for SAP. I asked why she could not transfer back the money, she gave a very stupid reason stating that Madhavi (who is SriLatha's sis in-law) is in India and she doesn't have the debit card so she won't be able to initiate the transfer. This is a very stupid reason as to do the online transfer, all one needs is a valid bank account (which Madhavi did have) and internet connection and so the transfer can be initiated from any part of the globe. When she refused to return the money, I had to approach the BofA customer care claim service department to revert the money ($450, which i paid extra) into my account and BofA did it successfully on 12/16. Thanks to the commendable service of BofA. After this incident Srilatha immediately called me and got mad at me stating that you pulled out the money from the claims dept., I said "EXCUSE ME, THAT'S MY MONEY"...
Anyways, after this chapter i realized this lady Srilatha is just running this fake shop and is only greedy for money and fooling others.
Now coming to the class schedule, she committed to me that the class will start in December 1st week and be over by the end of January and then she will help in preparation for the interview, effective resume and all. But she skipped so many classes and made us wait long hours to attend the class and now after wasting so much time I have decided to leave her and join another institute of repute. With Srilatha I wasted good amount of time and money. When I asked her to refund the money back, she strongly refused and hung up the phone. I tried calling her so many times, but she is never answering.
She never replied to my emails and called me one day and promised to complete the batch by end of Jan, but that never happened. We students from the batch got together and decided to investigate the matter and found that Srilatha Potluri is not even in the US and had made false claims she is in Dallas, TX. All the emails she was sending were originating from an IP in Hyderabad. The address provided by Madhavi Bobba is different from her actual address. Srilatha Potluri had been using magic jack and calling using a US number. We were able to track down Srilatha Potluri and ask her for a refund of all our fees, to which she flatly refused and has been avoiding any contact with the batch members.
I am not the only one in this situation; there are 6 others who are a victim of this scam. Guys be careful to who you are paying the money to. When you get emails from someone offering classes, please look at he message header and check the origination IP of the email. Do not transfer the money to anyone other than the name of the trainer. I would not recommend ‘srilatha potluri' to anyone. Also careful if she opertates with another name and asks for payments in name of ‘madavi bobba'. This is a big scam operating from hyderabad, india.
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