A good friend of mine sent me a whats app message with screenshots and documents where my name (Manikandan Ramalingam) seems to have been used in a scam involving transfer of Unlisted Shares

Below is the screenshot i got



I only have 2 email ids - my personal one (rmani84@gmail.com) and the bse2nse domain email id rmani84@bse2nse.com

I have bought some shares in unlisted space via online intermediaries like Planify and UnlistedArena (like HDB, NSE). As i understand, as a buyer, we never know who we are buying from (seller). As a buyer, i pay the amount to Planify or UnlistedArena by NEFT and they take my CMR (Demat Client Master Record) and transfer the shares to me within one trading day.

I received couple of other agreement documents from my friend (which i am not sharing here), where it looks like the buyer of unlisted shares of swiggy seems to be transferring the amount directly to the seller (instead of the intermediary).

The agreement document has the bank account details of the seller who goes by the same name as me (Manikandan Ramalingam).

ICICI bank has this good feature - where it will pull the beneficiary account holder name - when we try to add a new beneficiary for fund transfer. "Manikandan G" is the account holder name (As per bank records). Sharing the screenshots below





The PAN and Aadhaar given on the agreement document do not belong to me

Please be very careful when dealing with buying or selling of unlisted shares

I never sell the unlisted shares that i buy personally towards building my personal equity portfolio. I buy only to hold long term (more than 10 years) with the intention to hold a very long period post IPO

We never act as an intermediary or deal with unlisted shares for clients