Vishnu Sreekumar review: 8K miles India Scam Artist – Trade Secrets Revealer – Thief – Liar – Incompetent – Elite fraudster Chennai, Internet 1

After working for quite some time with Vishnu Sreekumar, I never expected that he was just another “time bomb” waiting all this time to scam me.

I was looking for server administrator around 2 or 3 years ago on odesk.com. Eventually he applied and immediately impressed me with his perfect English (something extremely rare to find among the available Indian personnel in odesk), stating he has Bachelors degree in computer science and already working on his Master’s Degree – it gave me great confidence that he is knows what he is doing and that he has dealt with American clients in the past.

During the work period, he made quite a number of mistakes for my site, such as removing the half of users’ database information and excusing the enormous amounts of loss with “sorry, I thought, but I did not listen what I was told to do” or could not determine the reason if server/cloud was down on our end or on service provider, as a result another wipe out took place, and it’s just the beginning. A DDos attack on my site last year was diagnosed as a php virus, by him which would’ve required a complete wipe of entire webcode to remedy – it took him over 3 weeks to realize it was DDos attack.. and so on.

For such a qualified professional on paper and in most of our work conversations, it seemed like a few too many mistakes. However, he kept insisting that he is doing his best, and has many things to do, so the problems were just a big accident, he is not like that.

One would question why we kept conducting business with Mr Sreekumar for some time after the DDOS fiasco, and the main reason is many times in my work history with him, we had a large number of discussions regarding new IT business ventures in India with him as a project manager. He impressed with many great and detailed ideas about CRM and Cloud Server Integration start-ups and I figured that with his “connections” and expertise with working with start-ups in the past, that maintaining a relationship with him would benefit me in the long run. Having a seemingly competent and

passionate person business-wise as a partner would make starting a new development project in India much easier, or so I thought. At the time, I saw him as a kindred spirit in terms of ambition and the route to realize ambition.

He didn’t seem like a person whose main goal was to work as a coder cog in an office, he made himself seem like a admin, and I kept him for that, while leaving complicated server issues with other developers, for the reason that he could play a big role in assisting me in hiring qualified personnel and running an office once I did decide to invest in an indian office.

Later on, he began encouraging me to send him business funds, so that he could finally open up the Technopark Office located in Kerela, India. He laid out the plans as to the how much of funds he needed, and how the funds would be allocated between the prospective management and coders. Upon further questioning, he affirmed that the positions of manager, supervisor, and project manager would be carried out by himself, which meant that he would’ve paid

himself the salary of three people had I continued with his proposal. It did not work after this part of scam was discovered.

Then, around December 2011 he was insisting to run a competing site, offering similar services to the Indian Amazon Web Services Integration firm of 8K Miles, the AWS company where is he working at now. He gave me detailed numbers of how quickly the relatively new industry of cloud server integration was growing and how much clients typically paid for the services.

In addition he revealed almost all trade secrets of how the business is being conducted, claiming that the company is not treating him well for what is he doing for it. Saying, he is working so hard for it, trains all the people for cloud services, but the boss always sends other people to Singapore as well as other countries. Furthermore, he mentioned that the coding for AWS integrations we’re relatively similar on a project-to-project basis and he had access of the proprietary code of 8k miles, which he would use for my company upon working with us.

So he wanted to do the 8K miles project in addition to a video training project like http://www.careeracademy.com. He was online day and night almost 10 hours a day, thinking of how we should run the video business. Again, he had many ideas and his knowledge of the video training industry was vast, given how quickly and accurately he was able to

answer my queries. The brainstorming period took a while and after discussing numbers and the ease it was to find certified experts in CISCO, Microsoft, Comptia, VMware and so on, we were ready to finally begin hiring. However, he

had an old computer according to him, so he needed the new one very badly to start the work.

I trusted him at that point and I figured that he wouldn’t be wasting so many hours discussing these projects with me if he hadn’t a clue regarding the AWS and Video training industries. When I posted that we are looking for Cisco certified professionals on oDesk.com – and responses were that it would take them 2-4 months to complete the vid- according to Vishnu this was a total ripoff. He was adamant that video courses should not be taking more than 2 weeks per 15 hour course. He also sent his instructions (which most likely were stolen from somewhere) on cloud services, saying its going to take at the most 2 weeks, and that he really needs the laptop to do the work.

The laptop eventually was sent out – a 17’ Macbook pro worth $2500 by Fedex to:

Vishnu Sreekumar

8K Miles Software Services LTD

#7, 3RD Street
2ND Lane, Centoph Road
Chennai, Teynampet
India, 600018

Tracking number: [protected]

http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?clienttype=dotcom&ascend_header=1&cntry_code=us&language=english&mi=n&tracknumbers=874733937670

So on January 3rd, 2012 it was sent out, and by 9th January 2012 it was received.

The same day he thanked me for a gift (what gift?) from“very deep of his heart”. I never implied in any way in our convos that this was a gift- it was a supposedly necessary tool for our business partnership and it was made clear prior to me sending the laptop that business wouldn’t run smoothly without him having such a laptop. Therefore, him mentioning it as a gift was rather ludicrous, but I did not think too much of it at the time- until a few weeks later.

Then the story has changed. Saying he needs to go to attend Redhat courses, he has no interest in developing Cisco courses (the video training line we determined was the best way to proceed in terms of the ease in finding experts and the market potential), but he could send another guy to help us with Cisco products development. So he gave his “good friend” which was actually him, with a different username as it turns out, without any certification at all asking $1350 per month. Cisco has a tracking system wherein a real certified person can access his account and request for Cisco to

send all the credentials to a email address of his choice. What the “friend” did was just give me random Cisco numbers. Upon asking him for tracking, and it took over one hour to explain to him what that was and how to proceed, he

signed off. The most comical part however, was that Mr Sreekumar actually implored me to “give him a shot” and that it “was very hard to find Cisco Certified people in India”, which is in complete 180 degrees of how things were discussed

before the laptop was sent. Also, for a person to recommend hiring another guy who is obviously not certified and was trying to cheat us, was absolutely suspicious. Either that “friend” was in on the scam, or it was actually Mr. Sreekumar.

Once this trick did not work out, he decided not to show up on Skype anymore, ignored all the emails.

One thing to note is that Mr Sreekumar he has multiple Skype accounts, - so I assume he scammed more people the same way.

Plus he has no degree what so ever. Just few Redhat certifications. I had a light conversation with him recently and he began asking me about the US and how difficult it was for a person with no college degree to get a visa. I found that question weird and asked him about that masters degree he was supposedly pursuing 2 years earlier. It turns out, that was a lie.

You can find him looking for jobs all over the places:

http://people.bayt.com/vishnu-sreekumar/#

http://www.skillpages.com/cloud-computing/chennai-india/vishnu.sreekumar

https://www.odesk.com/users/~~04971317d8aba390

For companies: be careful, your information might be leaking just as much as radiation from Fukushima.

For individuals: be careful, he has no knowledge that he claims. For the rate he is charging and the numbers of very serious mistakes, this is is way too much. Mr Vishnu Sreekumar is like a snake- snakes can lie dormant, beautiful

and in wait for weeks or even months before going for a kill. Vishnu was the same, he scammed and deceived me and probably many others in the past few years, biding his time and using multiple IM accounts to steal from others.

I haven’t heard from him in over a week now and he has not signed online either, which is a total reverse of his reachability for the past 3 years. More probable is that he is using any one of his other 5 or more skype accounts to scam someone else

Hope it helps.

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