Blunders of Brainstorm

So I recently came across this company's website while going through my LinkedIn updates. The company claims it is going to do something that I don't think any company in India has done so far. The name of the company-

Brainstorm Innovation


Their posts on LinkedIn read-
"Want to master in the field of Matlab....as well as want to do Projects in Different Domains of Matlab .Brainstorm Is coming to meet you in your doorsteps with different Internet based applications"
(sic)

"Greetings from BrainStormInnovation E-Learning,Product based company.we are group of members working in MNC...We are providing MATLAB Online Training contact:brainstorminnovation@gmail.com

MATLAB TRAINING COURSES ARE:
1.DIPLOMA IN BASICS OF MATLAB
2.ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN DIP
3.ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN DSP
4.ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN BIO-MEDICAL IMAGING
5.ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Contact us to get syllabus and quote "

(sic)

Which means that they plan to provide online classes in MATLAB, OpenCV in the fields- DIP, DSP, Communication Systems, Bio-Metrics, Bio-Medical etc. (and probably wanting to make their company famous at the international level at some point as this was posted in the MATLAB Users group on LinkedIn).

So I took a little closer look at their LinkedIn profile, posts and their company's official website.

What I saw nearly saddened me, but made me laugh at the same time.

Check out the discussion in the comment section of theirs first post on LinkedIn here and the second post here.

The link to their official (but said to be temporary) website.

The image of their official logo.

Now read the details on the four links above very carefully.

If you are good in English I'm sure they'll make you laugh too. The lack of grammar, punctuation, capitalization of first alphabets of a new sentence are all very amusing. The best of all was the home page of the website, which also made me a little worried about the company and can be seen in the image below:

1. The logo of the company is "BL". Why would "Brainstorms Innovation" have a logo saying "BL"?

2. The name of the company is "Brainstorm Innovation" so why is it written as "Brainstrom" on the company website?

I then found out the following details about their course via email:

Course fees: 16,000      

( There is actually no mention if this amount is in Rupees, Dollars, Euros, Pounds, Dinars or what, but I assume it to be in Rupees.)

Total duration: 65 hours
and lectures through Skype.

Now normally I would not mind doing such a course but when I saw the fees which was almost double the fees of what some centers with certification courses take for a similar duration course and let you have access to their computers, study materials, and any hardware that you may require. Compared to that the fee for sitting in my home, using my own internet, and learning should be much less, in my opinion.

And then there is the doubt on the authentication of the website and the company. I mean i'm sure they didn't mean to purposefully add the mistakes I just highlighted above, but a company that has a logo that doesn't correspond to their name, a website with the wrong name of their own company, feels a little suspicious to me. So to dispel my doubts I thought I'd check out the location of the company and confirm one way or the other whether it was a sham or not.

What I saw shocked me!

The contact details written on their website are as follows:

Tel: 91-8428049258

Email: brainstorminnovation@gmail.com

Adress: Online contact is enough.Location at bangalore

(sic)

Now you can see the following errors. "Adress" is missing a 'd', "bangalore" instead of "Bangalore", "Location at bangalore" not ending with a period, and the line "Online contact is enough." seriously made me doubt the authenticity of the company. What company deliberately decides to not give their address and if they didn't want to give out their address, why was the line even written?

I would advice people not to take a risk by enrolling in their classes. Pretty sure that they will ask for the Rs. 16000/- via online transfer or via DD, which will make the workings of the company all the more suspicious and with no way of contacting them other then the phone number and the email id I don't think anybody would want to take that risk either.

Avoid the classes people!

Ciao!