Fraud alert! Scamsters using Google Pay, Phone to con you, 81 users lose ₹1 cr

On specified online frauds are executed targeting Google Pay and PhonePe users, Pavan Duggal, a Delhi-based cybercrime adept said, "In this premix of malware positive quality engineering scam, idiosyncratic knowingly sends wealth to your relationship via Google Pay oregon PhonePe gateway and calls you posing that the wealth was sent successful your relationship by mistake and requests that you nonstop the wealth backmost to their number. If you nonstop the wealth back, your relationship volition beryllium hacked."

On however this phishing is executed, Pavan Duggal said, "When a Google Pay oregon PhonePe idiosyncratic repays the money, their full data, including banking and different KYC documents similar PAN, Aadhaar, etc. go disposable to the fraudster and these documents are capable to hack anybody's slope account."

Precaution for Google Pay, PhonePe users

Pavan Duggal, who is President astatine cyberlaw.com went connected to add, "As I told earlier, this is simply a premix of malware phishing positive quality engineering and hence anti-malware bundle are not going to safeguard Google Pay and PhonePe users from this online fraud. So, the champion solution for Google Pay oregon PhonePe users is to conscionable reply to specified calls citing they asking their slope to look into the substance arsenic the wealth deposited successful their relationship has travel by mistake."

Duggal told Google Pay and PhonePe users to inquire the caller to travel to nearest constabulary presumption and person its wealth alternatively of giving the wealth backmost to the sender.