Many cases of this new type of scam have come to light in recent times.
In today’s era, most of the people transact money online. This medium has provided immense convenience to crores of people of the country. Where earlier one had to go to the bank to transfer money, now one can transfer money from anywhere to anyone in a few seconds. Digital transaction of money has become convenient but its disadvantages have also started coming to the fore. Cases of online scams and frauds come to light every day. Meanwhile, a new Jumped Deposit Scam is in the news. If you also do online transactions then you must know about it.
Just as the government and telecom companies are bringing new rules to prevent scams and online fraud, scammers are also adopting new methods to cheat people. At present, cyber criminals are using Jumped Deposit Scam extensively to defraud people. Many cases of this have come to light in recent times.
Police issued alert regarding scam
Let us tell you that a few days ago an alert was issued by Tamil Nadu Police regarding Jumped Deposit Scam. If you transfer money online or get someone to deposit money in your account, then you need to be very careful otherwise this new scam can make you bankrupt in a moment.
Actually, in Jumped Deposit Scam, scammers first deposit some money in the person’s account. After this they call him and request him to return the money saying that the money was transferred by mistake. Just as people enter the UPI PIN to check their account after hearing about the transfer of money, the money gets stolen from the account. Therefore, if any sudden money comes into your account like this, then you need to be careful.
Avoid Jumped Deposit Scam in this way
- If you want to avoid Jumped Deposit Scam, then you have to take special care of some things.
- If you get a message that money has been deposited in your account, then you should not respond immediately to that message.
- Do not make the mistake of logging into the app as soon as you get the message of deposit of money. Many people see such messages and start checking their account balance.
- Check your account balance at least 15-20 minutes after receiving the message.
- While checking UPI App, enter wrong UPI Pin the first time.
- If you enter wrong UPI Pin, the request from scammers will fail.
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