It was a thursday night and I was scanning through channels and there was a show called "Cinema Theriyuma" in Raj T.V. They had done a shoddy photoshop work of Ajith and Trisha by merging their faces. Anyone who watches any of the tamil channels will not find it tough to spot it out. Surprisingly the hosts were screaming at the top of lungs asking people to call up 5664426 and tell the name of the actor and actress and win Rs.40,000.
I complete the first round of scanning the channels and was back to this show after five minutes and saw that still no one had been able to get the right answer and the show hosts were literally begging someone to call up and answer and win the price money. Now it got me curious because I was surprised that no one was able to answer the question.
There were two things that striked me
1) There were no one watching RAJ T.V and hence there was no one to call them up
2) It was my lucky day to win 40,000 over a phone call
The catch was that I will have to call from my mobile phone and I will be charged Rs.10 per minute. I decided to go ahead and test my luck. I thought it was my lucky day as I already had survived what could have been a major accident that day without even a scratch. I called up the number and I was put on hold with an automated voice talking crappy stuff. Within few seconds of making the call I sensed something was wrong as the hosts were literally begging people to call them and answer and here I was put on hold.
I waited for five minutes and surprisingly no one got a chance to speak to the host. That meant I had burnt Rs.50 by than. Now I got the entire scheme of scam. I am sure atleast few hundred people would have called this number and burned out the Rs.10 per minute from their mobiles and this seemingly little money of would have accumulated to a decenet sum.
I am not sure who is behind this show but I can only tell this... Eppadi ellam emathranga paaruya...
