🚨 Shine.com & HT Media: Institutionalized Scam or Corporate Crime? An Open Letter to India’s Job Seekers & Leaders

🚨 Shine.com & HT Media: Institutionalized Scam or Corporate Crime? An Open Letter to India’s Job Seekers & Leaders In a country where youth unemployment is a ticking time bomb, Shine.com, the so-called job portal operating under HT Media, has transformed desperation into a full-fledged revenue model — one that preys on the vulnerable, thrives on manipulation, and survives under the silent complicity of media moguls. At the helm sits Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson of HT Media, overseeing not a bridge between talent and opportunity, but a well-oiled fraud machine that sells hope — and delivers heartbreak. 🎯 How the Scam Works: A Corporate Playbook in Deceit Across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, Trustpilot, and MouthShut, the pattern is chillingly consistent. Job seekers are contacted by Shine.com agents with the promise of guaranteed interviews, top-tier job placements, or “exclusive opportunities.” It starts with a seemingly harmless ₹3,000–₹5,000 for “registration” or “profile boosting.” Then comes the escalation — ₹10,000 for resume writing, ₹30,000 for "priority listings," ₹60,000 for unverifiable services like "document verification." And when the target hesitates? The pressure begins. “Your profile will be paused.” “Your money is already non-refundable.” “You’ll lose access.” No job ever comes. No refund is issued. Only silence. One Reddit user wrote: “My dumbass let Shine.com scam me ₹30,000. I am beyond pissed off.” Another shared on Quora: “They promised exclusive jobs. I paid ₹19,000. Nothing happened.” On Trustpilot: “They took ₹60,000 and sent garbage job links. Fraud to the core.” This is not mismanagement. This is not a rogue employee. This is a scam run like a business, inside a business — using HT Media's brand equity as bait. 🧨 The Moral Collapse of HT Media Shobhana Bhartia, this is your legacy now. You head one of India's oldest media houses — Hindustan Times — a name once synonymous with credibility. Yet under your leadership, Shine.com operates unchecked, leveraging the HT brand to legitimize its predatory tactics. Emails are sent from verified HT Media domains. Transactions are backed by authentic receipts. This is not some underground racket. This is fraud in full daylight, sanctioned under your name. You champion women’s empowerment, media independence, and social responsibility. But what of the single mothers, fresh graduates, and middle-class strugglers your company is bleeding dry? Is this the cost of your silence? Is the HT brand now just another tool in the exploitation industry? 🔥 A National Outcry Waiting to Happen From forums to reviews, the digital scream of victims grows louder by the day. The writing is on the wall. Yet no consumer court intervention. No regulatory body action. No journalistic investigation from within HT Media itself. It’s a systemic failure, and worse — a wilful betrayal. This is not just a scam. This is class warfare disguised as career assistance. It targets the unemployed, the underpaid, and the unaware — and it’s time it was called out for what it is: Organized digital extortion under the banner of Hindustan Times. 🛑 The Call to Action To every job seeker in India: Do NOT trust Shine.com. Do your research. If you’ve already been scammed, speak up — on social media, in consumer forums, to legal authorities. Your voice matters. To the Government & Consumer Affairs Ministry: Where is your action on this? Where are the fraud probes, the FIRs, the penalties? Why must the poor suffer while corporates plunder unchecked? To Shobhana Bhartia: You cannot hide behind corporate walls. Shine.com is a stain on your reputation and the institution you lead. Shut it down. Compensate the victims. Or publicly admit: profit over principle is the real HT Media policy. This is a defining moment — not just for HT Media, but for every Indian job portal, media house, and corporate entity profiting from unemployment. Let the world know. Let India wake up. #ShineScam #HTMediaFraud #StopShineFraud #ShobhanaBhartiaMustAnswer #JobSeekerJustice Victims of Shine.com Fraud/Scam/Extoration https://www.quora.com/Is-Shine-com-a-scam https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1chemtj/is_it_just_me_or_everyone_getting_fake_job_emails/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sunny-leo_i-am-getting-calls-from-shinecoms-recruiters-activity-7164862847271755776-qd7V/ https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Reviews/Shine-com-frauds-Reviews-EI_IE872806.0,9_KH10,16.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbhwjVhUqM https://www.trustpilot.com/review/shine.com https://www.grahakcomplaints.in/company/shine-com