A curious case of Forgery - Dont let this happen to you !!

This is one of the unfortunate incidents that I heard this year which has happened to my neighbour.

Its a case of cheating, forgery & a well known bank not being able to detect this forgery.

My neighbour is one of the newly arrived from Maharashtra & comes around as a friendly, good natured person. He newly joined a company here in Bangalore & got his salary account opened from a "well known bank".

After a few months, he decided to visit his hometown, It was after coming back that he was surprised that his salary account showed a decline of Rs. 20,000/- mysteriously !!!

He rushed to his bank to find out how this has happened. He was told that a person named ""so & so" whom he has never heard of, in his whole life had taken away hard cash of Rs. 20,000/- using a bearer cheque which was duly signed by his signature !!!

My neighbour was petrified to look at the signature as it was an exact match of his own signature. The only difference being that it was glaring to one's eyes that the signature was not a confidently signed one as the curves in the signature seem to have been slowly penned.

My neighbour questioned the bank about this signature saying that it does not match his signature as his signature contains confident curve strokes on the cheque.

Also the handwriting on the cheque was also questionable which had closely matched with my neighbour's handwriting.

Ny neighbour explained the bank that he had never issued any cheque to this "so & so" person whom he had never known in his whole lifetime !!!

He asked the bank if they asked him to produce any photo identity proof before honouring the bearer cheque. The bank did ask for a photo id proof & he had produced his Driving License !!!

Now all my neighbour has is a xerox copy of the alleged cheat's DL. My neighbour has lost hopes of getting back his money as he has lost trust in either the bank or even the police. On the contrary he is scared that the police might trap him into unnecessary issues for which he does not have time to spend on......

All I can say is that please be careful about your cheque books & dont let it get into the hands of unknown persons. Be very careful when you are handing over cheques to other parties or banks or for any kind of bill payments.

My fave list of Hindi Retro Remixes

Hindi Retro Remixes
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1. Mera Babu Chail Chabila
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8WjDE796k

2. Chadti Jawani Teri Chaal Mastani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Y7xtrjW68

3. Haan yeh vaada raha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_3oixTD84

4. Mere Naseeb Main Tu hai ke Nahi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1zKd-jnfY&feature=related

Original Indipop
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1. Shaan - Tanha Dil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22TxTJm6KIg&feature=related

2. Suchitra - Dole Dole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1wlH9qOds

3. Kamaal Khan - Suno To diwana dil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZSaJK8pCI&feature=related

4. Lucky Ali - O Sanam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWjpYbLTjc&feature=related

Original Evergreen Hindi Retro Songs
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1. Tera saath hai kitna pyaara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW71I4z_LMk

2. Har kisiko nahi milta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YTBozxlm8

3. So gaya Yeh Jahaan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXjLohRTDs&feature=related

4. Aankhon main base ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFO5CFxByE

Some of the best Punjabi Pop Hits

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1. Gori Naal Ishq Mitha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAVh7AAfJWM

ಮುಂಗಾರು ಮಳೆ - Celebrating 2000 views to my Review on Mouthshut.com

http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Mungaaru_Male-125464-1.html

Bangalore - Shaken but not scared...

One of the saddest days in the history of Bangalore. July 25th, 2008.
Nine serial low intensity bomb blasts rocking the Garden city !!

The news came like a bolt from the blue around 1:30 pm. My brother calls me up & says.. "hey.. dont you know what has happened.. there are serial blasts hapeening in & around Madivala checkpost". At first I thought, he is fooling around with me. I asked "Is it a joke or something??"
Then realized that the unthinkable did happen. It continued to happen till 2:30 pm at various other places in the city & one around 5:30pm. Thew news spread like a wild fire in a few minutes once the first few blasts occured.

I was in the office when I got this news ! I was quite shaken up by hearing such a news.

My all time favourite Kannada Songs on YouTube

These are some of my favourite Kannada retro Music picks
Courtesy: www.youtube.com
Enjoy Maadi !!

Ravichandran Hits

1. Aasegalu kenakutalide Snehavanu
Film - Naane Raaja

2. Swaati Muttina Male Haniye
Film - Bannada Gejje

3. Preetiyali Iro Sukha
Film - Anjada Gandu

Shankar Nag Hits

1. Jotheyali Jothe Jotheyali
Film - Geetha

Vishnuvardhan Hits

1. Neera Bittu Nelada Mele
Film - Hombisilu

2. Ee Kaanchana Ganga
Film - Himapaatha

3. Noorondu Nenapu
Film - Bandhana

4. Ee Bandhana
Film - Bandhana

Ganesh Hits

1. Anisutide Yaako Indu
Film - Mungaaru Male

Ram Kumar Hits

1. Belli Chukki Baare
Film - Vajra

2. Onde Usirante indu
Film - Sneha Loka

3. Titanic Heroine
Film - Sneha Loka

Anil Kapoor Hits

1. O Premi
Film - Pallavi Anu Pallavi

2. Naguva Nayana
Film - Pallavi Anu Pallavi

Some Stock Market Gyan from my Dear friend Srinivasan

This Article gives you Gyan whether to choose Growth or Dividend when you purchase a Mutual Fund.
http://sriniram.blogspot.com/2008/02/mutual-fund-fundas-growth-or-dividend.html

This article gives you tips to choose the Stocks for long term gains
http://sriniram.blogspot.com/2008/02/stock-selection-for-long-term-gains.html

PS: These articles are a result of chat transcripts between me & my friend Srini.
Its Srini's in-born talent to convert our chat conversations into a useful article.

Cheers !

Chalta Hai Attitude Nahin Chalega...

An eye-opener article

http://www.lead.timesofindia.com/Ujjwal_Banerjee.asp?pid=28

The story teaches us never to ignore customer issues.. However silly they might seem !!

Read the customer issue reported to General Motors... in this article :)

http://paultan.org/archives/2005/11/22/perodua-man-for-proton-ceo/

The Dream of a LIFETIME for an INDIAN cricket fan comes true at last !!

13 runs needed off 6 balls... for Pakistan to clinch the World Cup... Everybody watching with bated breath.... Dhoni handed the ball to Joginder Sharma, the small town lad who did not look menacing by any means in front of Pak's Misbah-ul-Haq who had clobbered Harbhajan Singh in the penultimate over.

The first ball is a wide !! There goes our hopes down the drain... Jogi hit for a straight six the next ball... All our Indian hearts came till the mouth... The feeling of despair & helplessness that with just a boundary it will all be over.
We really believed that this young team without the 3 big guns of the Indian cricket will bring us the World's 1st T20 World Cup.

Hearts pounding again with Joginder bowling his next delivery.... We feared that Misbah would repeat the Javed Miandad act to win it for the Pakis.

Misbah tries to be smart & tries to scoop it behind Dhoni, the Wicket keeper.... What happened...? The ball is in the air & voila....
Sheer luck.... Its Sreesanth under the ball trying to catch the ball... And there she lands in his hands..... It was Pakistan's last wicket... Woow... It took some time for us to sink in our mind that India had won a World Cup !!!

Hurray!!! That was an involuntary hooting from all of us watching the match... In seconds I heard fire cracker sounds in my vicinity... This called for a huge celebration. We had friends messaging congratulating each other as if all we are going to get a share of the prize money :)
But really to tell you the fact... Its always an occasion of celebration when you feel proud to be an INDIAN.

This was an amazing feeling.... It brought out the nostalgic memories in my mind.... My mind rolled back to a few months ago.... March-April 2007 where India had crashed out of the W. Indies World Cup & couldn't even reach the super 8 stages. Its a known phenomena that Cricket is a religion in our nation which is over emphasized at times. The players are literally crucified when they lose in key tournaments & are held high in godly stature when they win.

Flash back to the 2003 S. Africa World Cup where India had done so well to reach the Finals but lost out to Aussies as they were too smart to be outsmarted by the Indians. In 1999 India failed to reach the Semis in England. It was a horrendous semifinals in 1996 for the Indian when they were outsmarted by the Lankans. I remember that I had high hopes on the then Indian cricketers, after that thrilling Pakistan match in the Quarter finals where India won it. The semis were abandoned due to crowd disruption in Cacutta, Eden Gardens.... after India failed to make an impact in all the departments of the game. I even remember myself crying along with Vinod Kambli :P

I am sure every cricket buff in this country would have had similar feelings as I have described above. I am sure people would have cursed Ravi Shastri as many times as me when he wasted balls in one day games... We have cursed the bowlers whenever they conceded unreasonable runs in crucial matches... But today's game had made us forgive all that.

At last... Nevertheless... Its the Dream of a lifetime for an Indian cricket fan to come true.
Too good a dream to come true... As I smiled & gazed at my wife for bearing with me when I watched this final match....my wife mused.... Imagine what if Sreesanth had dropped that catch?? I said, 'Dont even think about it'...

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