Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma shared a screenshot of a humorous change with a scammer who was impersonating him to verify on the corporate’s funds.
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and CEO of Paytm, lately shared a lighthearted change on X involving a scammer who impersonated him in an try and extract delicate monetary data from the corporate. In a submit titled “Impersonating Myself to Me,” Sharma revealed a collection of #WhatsApp messages the place the fraudster launched himself as Sharma and requested the actual CEO to avoid wasting his “new” cellphone quantity. The amusing encounter had many netizens in stitches, whereas additionally highlighting a extra severe subject within the digital panorama—naive people falling prey to scammers who use refined ways, pretend profiles, and malicious hyperlinks for impersonation.
In one message, the scammer pressed Sharma to confirm and report again on the corporate’s obtainable funds. The impersonator even demanded that Sharma share contact particulars of the finance head and went so far as to ask him to ahead a doubtful .exe file disguised as a GST doc to the finance government. Playing together with the scheme, Sharma cheekily recommended that the impersonator ought to think about a wage hike.
In a noteworthy improvement, the Telecom Department introduced the launch of the ‘Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)’ on Wednesday. This initiative goals to reinforce intelligence sharing amongst banks, UPI service suppliers, and monetary establishments, making it a significant step in combating cyber fraud and monetary crime. According to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the FRI will strengthen cyber safety and validation checks for flagged cellular numbers when digital funds are tried.
The FRI facilitates swift, focused motion in opposition to suspected fraud in each the telecom and monetary sectors, in accordance with an official launch. Furthermore, the DoT talked about that this software is a part of a broader Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP), empowering monetary establishments with actionable intelligence to forestall cyber fraud.
Notably, earlier this month, #Airtel launched a fraud detection answer designed to determine and block malicious web sites throughout numerous Over-The-Top (OTT) communication platforms, together with #WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, and e mail, in actual time. This service is at present operational within the Haryana circle, with a nationwide rollout on the horizon.
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