Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma shared a screenshot of a humorous alternate with a scammer who was impersonating him to test on the corporate’s funds.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and CEO of Paytm, just lately shared a lighthearted alternate on X involving a scammer who impersonated him in an try and extract delicate monetary info from the corporate. In a put up titled “Impersonating Myself to Me,” Sharma revealed a sequence of WhatsApp messages the place the fraudster launched himself as Sharma and requested the actual CEO to avoid wasting his “new” telephone quantity. The amusing encounter had many netizens in stitches, whereas additionally highlighting a extra critical challenge within the digital panorama—naive people falling prey to scammers who use refined techniques, pretend profiles, and malicious hyperlinks for impersonation.
In a single message, the scammer pressed Sharma to confirm and report again on the corporate’s accessible 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. Enjoying together with the scheme, Sharma cheekily steered that the impersonator ought to think about a wage hike.
In a noteworthy improvement, the Telecom Division introduced the launch of the ‘Monetary Fraud Danger Indicator (FRI)’ on Wednesday. This initiative goals to reinforce intelligence sharing amongst banks, UPI service suppliers, and monetary establishments, making it an important step in combating cyber fraud and monetary crime. In line with the Division of Telecommunications (DoT), the FRI will strengthen cyber safety and validation checks for flagged cell numbers when digital funds are tried.
The FRI facilitates swift, focused motion towards suspected fraud in each the telecom and monetary sectors, in line with an official launch. Moreover, the DoT talked about that this instrument 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 resolution designed to establish and block malicious web sites throughout varied Over-The-High (OTT) communication platforms, together with WhatsApp, Telegram, Fb, Instagram, and e-mail, in actual time. This service is presently operational within the Haryana circle, with a nationwide rollout on the horizon.