Did you receive a notification of a pending e-challan on your registered mobile number? Beware, this can be a scam! Soon you will lose money and access to your mobile phone. Wandering how? Scammers often find new tricks to illegally fetch money from your accounts. This time, the fraudsters are using an e-challan SMS trick. So, how does this work? And what measures should you take?
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E-Challan Scam –
Recently, a scam. Sharing the details about the fraud, the user shared that he was targeted with a text message claiming a traffic violation, directing him to settle the fine via a link. The user was shocked by the message and clicked on the link which redirected the user to download an app named Vahan Parivahan.
In regular cases, the e-challan payment link redirects you to the main site, wherein you need to fill up the details and make the payment. But in the above case, as the link directed the user to download an app was something fishy and eventually was noticed by the user. Then he searched about the same on the internet and got to know that this was some kind of scam going on in the market.
The worst thing here was, the fraudsters sent an e-challan message with the same registration number of his car, which shows how our data has already been compromised. There have already been cases where some people have lost their hard earned money by being ignorant and downloading the app, giving out all the access of the data and banks to the fraudsters.
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Have You Got The Same Message?
So, here are some measures that you must take if you don’t want to lose your money as well as data.
- First things first, check if the message that you have received is sent from an official authority or from an official portal (for eg. all vehicular details are sent via BH-VAHAN).
- Secondly, never download or click on any links that might seem to be fishy.
- To verify your challan, always refer to the original sites like the official Parivahan website.
- Finally, be a responsible citizen and be aware of such online scams.
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