Another UPI Scam
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Somebody i know was duped of Rs 5000 recently.
He was looking to book a taxi and one of the taxi driver asked him to fill a google form and send a text message to a particular and only then his bookings will be confirmed.
Google form asked him to mention his name, bank account number and his upi pin (He shared upi pin thinking that just like card transaction, there will be an otp to authorize the transaction. He was new to all this)
The message was a text message (just like required when you register for any UPI).
Luckily just as he received a debit message, he blocked all further debits and nothing more happened.
The person has filed a complaint to cyber cell, to his bank and as well to taxi driving company (not taking name here). Do suggest if anything more needs to be done
My question being how come he had the exact same text required to be sent for upi registration and is it possible to register from another device not having the required sim, just by sending the message from first device having sim?
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Conversation happened over the phone. Also the person was in another city for business purpose and wanted to book taxi for airport
Scammers are trained , so be alerted and be safe you can’t imagine what will happen , so don’t keep more money in bank account which you use online , keep more funds only in non- online usage bank account & track records regularly like monthly -→ quarterly -—> Yearly & verify it and if found something suspicious then immediately bring it to the notice of bank manager and if needed then contact cyber crime officials too !
Educated illiterate.
Remembering some lines of @rogerthat ’spoem
Hum whatsapp instagram chalana me expert he lekin bank app humko ata ni,
Ha hum he aam admi
oh yes now i remember
excerpts from “an ordinary whatsapp forward mesage”
Why the hell he had shared the PIN in a form?? People seriously need to be aware about,
what to put where. 
Most of the awareness websites are blocked. VPN is too slow to get Highly Defined awareness. 
lol even taxi drivers are able to fool customers. This is called Achhe Din, even driver is intelligent
Isse bolte hai :- अपने पैरों पर कुल्हाड़ी मारना. 
I really hope he will get the money.
i too had a similar experience . I made a complain on Twitter tagging flipkart n mentioned my phone number . The next thing, I got a call from scammer pretending to be a flipkart executive. he told me sir you would be receiving a message shortly n asked me to forward it to his number. That was upi registration.
I told i’m out of balance, I would forward if he recharge my number 
Same thing happened but with paytm, also I didn’t send any pin or anything yet genuis hacker looted 250 rs from my paytm bal. Paytm cc never helped me get back my money, so I have stopped using paytm since then.
why on earth would anyone fill up a form to a taxi?
What Happened to taxi driver who suggested this…pakad kar pelna tha na…