Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cyber

[Desmond]

INDORE: Unable to challenge the might of Google with his potent search engine tezguru.com in the want of funds in 2009, a teenaged techno genius Shivendu Madhav turned into an alleged cyber criminal five years later.

The 22-year-old techno whizkid from Siwan district of Bihar, Shivendu was arrested by the UP STF on Wednesday in Lucknow, for allegedly being the tech brain of a Varanasi-based racket of youths, who had allegedly created the fake portal of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB-Bhopal).

The racket headed by Varanasi-based youth Vipin Pathak had subsequently duped large number of job aspirants nationwide in the name of railway jobs, spanning from track men to ticket collector.

According to UP STF sources, the tech sensation has revealed during primary grilling about having created the Google like search engine tezguru.com, which even won accolades from former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in 2009 at a techno exhibition in Bihar.

But subsequent efforts by Shivendu and his father in Bihar, to garner funds for making the search engine commercially afflloat turned futile, ultimately prompting the teenager to join forces with Varanasi based Vipin Pathak and plunge into cyber crime in coming years, UP STF sources added.

According to additional SP (UP STF) Dr Triveni Singh, the arrested high school pass Shivendu will be produced before a Lucknow court later on Thursday. A team from MP police cyber cell from Bhopal too has arrived at Lucknow for quizzing the youth in the fake RRB site case.

Presently Varanasi-based, Shivendu had created a web portal, RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD, BHOPAL, which appeared identical to RRB-Bhopal's official website, RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD, BHOPAL. The young fraudsters had not only developed the fake RRB-Bhopal website, but also gave hypertext links to RRB's official website 404 - File or directory not found. that anybody logging on to the fake site and clicking on a link was taken to the official site, adding credibility to the fraudsters' claims.

Using the fake portal, the fraudsters invited applications for over 11,000 posts in RRB, including ticket collectors, trackmen, helpers and peons and got job aspirants registered to the site via processing fees of Rs 300 and Rs 500.

Shivendu and his aides had got the domain RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD, BHOPAL hosted through a Canadian web hosting server without providing his e-mail and other details. Shivendu had made the payment for the domain hosting through his debit card. The resultant fake RRB portal was subsequently advertised on major examination info related websites and Google to attract job seekers in the trap.

"We came to know about Shivendu through a Mumbai-based internet payment gateway which was being used by him and aides and subsequently located the racket to be based in Varanasi. Subsequent investigations led us to Shivendu on Wednesday in Lucknow and he was arrested," The ASP said.

The techno genius whose technical blog portal TechnoZeast was acquired by an Indian-origin professor of University of Texas, US, for Rs 4.5 lakh some months ago, had earned several lakh rupees through the fake RRB portal, which he was planning to invest in 3 NGOs registered in Varanasi and Azamgarh districts of East UP.

"To ensure that duped job aspirants get their money back, Rs 13 lakh sum earned by fraudsters has been blocked with the internet payment gateway being used by them and the money will soon be reimbursed to job aspirants," the ASP maintained.

Hailing from Jaijor village of Siwan, Shivendu also developed an advertising portal www.cozli.com and his success story was prominently published in premier technology magazine Digit a few years ago.

Source: *timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/i...ged-into-cyber-crime/articleshow/44102692.cms

Hailing from Jaijor village of Siwan, Shivendu also developed an advertising portal www.cozli.com and his success story was prominently published in premier technology magazine Digit a few years ago.

Which issue of Digit?

 

[kkn13]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

its so cheap and sad when potential is misused like this
i think he deserves it,if he wanted funding he could have used kickstarter or something instead of looting people

 

[Vyom]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

The guy must be in serious need of money. That or he just went into some bad company.

This happens when talent is not appreciated and one doesn't get the platform or support in right direction. Sad.

 

[Anorion]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

the fake site has better formatting than the original

 

[bikramjitkar]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

the fake site has better formatting than the original

That should have set off the alarm bells. If it looks good, it can't be a Govt site!

 

[Desmond]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

I can't understand that they arrested him and still didn't take down the fake website?

 

[skeletor]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

the fake site has better formatting than the original

That should have set off the alarm bells. If it looks good, it can't be a Govt site!

If it doesn't have <marquee>, it can't be a sarkaari site. Remember this always. The fake site doesn't have a <marquee>, the real one has.

 

[Faun]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

Guy knows basics of CSS

And why the site is still online ?

 

[Vyom]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

^ Site is still online as an example of the genius the Techno genius was.

Loved the way Marquee provided authenticity to the actual site.

 

[m.m.mehta0724]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

Scams and scammers...because we do not have substantial cyber laws...nowadays it's common to hear stories of genius turned to criminal minds.

 

[Saahib]

Re: Unable to challenge Google's might with his search engine, Bihar's techno genius plunged into cy

I don't know how he was genious, he made payment through his debit card ,then was using his real account to get money.. to me looks like a desperado ..

PS: This thing made it very hard to read:
*www.digit.in/forum/customavatars/avatar5007_27.gif