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FACT CHECK: DON’T TOUCH THIS “JIO SCRATCH CARD” HOPING FOR A FREE GIFT - YOU’LL
END UP SCRATCHING YOUR HEAD IN DESPAIR


THE OFFER FLOATING AROUND, LOOKS GENUINE AT FIRST GLANCE. IT IS IN THE FORM OF A
SCRATCH CARD, COMPLETE WITH THE LOGO OF JIO, A PHOTO OF MUKESH AMBANI SAYING JIO
HAS COMPLETED SEVEN YEARS, AND A PROMISE OF RS 999 GIFT.

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INDIA TODAY FACT CHECK

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Reliance Jio is offering a prize money of Rs. 999 on its seventh anniversary.

Fact

This is an imposter website. Reliance Jio is not running any such scheme.

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Jyoti Dwivedi
Balkrishna
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 21, 2022 21:58 IST

If an offer looks too good to be true, it’s most likely just that - fake.

Is Reliance Jio giving away Rs 999 to everyone on the occasion of their seventh
anniversary? Well, you may have already guessed it's junk. But if you think,
this is one of those numerous fraudulent websites which cast their net on social
media hoping to scrape some personal data - read on. This one is much more
serious. If you’re not careful, you may actually end up paying Rs.999 to the
fraudster.

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What the offer looks like:





The offer floating around, looks genuine at first glance. It is in the form of a
scratch card, complete with the logo of Jio, a photo of Mukesh Ambani saying Jio
has completed seven years, and a promise of Rs 999 gift. All you need to do to
get lucky, is to scratch the card and claim your prize.

As soon as you scratch the card, it congratulates you for winning Rs.999. If you
do not want to take the risk of navigating through a fraudulent website, find
below the screen recording to see how it actually looks and what happens next.





Ultimately, the offer card wants you to “click here to transfer the prize money
into your account”. The moment you click on it, you end up being redirected to
the Paytm app (if you’ve the app already installed on your phone). But we’ll
come back to it later on.
Let’s first try to peek at what happens behind the scenes.






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If you pay attention to the url before the offer opens the Paytm app, you can
see that the address looks somewhat weird. The url of the website is
‘cartbag.xyz’. Why on earth would Jio use this url for any of their offers?
First red flag. You will also notice that the website has been designed to work
properly only on mobile phones and the links don’t work properly if you open it
on a computer. There are two reasons for that. First, you don’t install Paytm on
your computer where the links want to redirect you. Second, it’s easy to
investigate a weblink on a computer.

The archived version of this website can be seen here.

It is important to note that the website ‘cartbag.xyz’ uses the same royal blue
color scheme as the official Jio website jio.com. That could be one of the
reasons many people are assuming this to be a genuine offer and sharing it on
WhatsApp as well as Facebook.

What does the website ‘cartbag.xyz’ reveal:

We found that the website was created barely three months ago. Disposing a
fraudulent website soon after duping people is a common practice. According to
GoDaddy Whois, the domain ‘cartbag.xyz’ was created on September 26, 2022.


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Here is the trap:

Assuming that you fell for the bait and clicked the link to “transfer Rs.999
into your bank account”, this is how things unfold.

As we discussed earlier, it automatically opens the Paytm app installed on your
phone. You’ll notice, the amount is pre-filled with ‘Rs. 999’. Just below the
amount, a message deceptively says,“TRANSFER-TO-YOUR-BANK’. The moment someone
punches their four-digit UPI pin - just the opposite happens. You end up paying
Rs 999 to one “Lakhi Mallick”.

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Wondering who Lakhi Mallick is? We managed to unmask the conman - at least
partially.

We have all been warned by our banks that we DO NOT need to punch the secret UPI
pin to “receive money”. It is not difficult to imagine there would be many
gullible people falling into this cleverly laid trap.

The man/woman behind the scam:

Hidden within the link, which directs you to the Paytm app and opens the payment
window, is the UPI ID where the payment is going in case you made the mistake of
keying your UPI pin.

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to rude passenger on flight

The ID is ‘8327049816@okbizaxis’. The name associated with this Id is ‘Lakhi
Repair Shop'. The blue tick along with the name indicates that it is a verified
account which has completed the KYC process.





As per the ‘National Payment Corporation Of India’ '@okbizaxis’ is the format of
Google Pay UPI Ids. We cross-checked on Google pay and found that the UPI ID
‘8327049816@okbizaxis’ is indeed associated with “Lakhi Repair Shop”.





We further scrutinized the phone number ‘8327049816’ through Paytm and True
caller apps. This is most probably a Vodafone Idea (Vi) number registered in
West Bengal & Andaman Nicobar circle. According to Paytm, this No. and the
associated account belong to one Lakhi Mallick.






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By the way, Jio is not celebrating its seventh anniversary. It completed six
years on September 5 this year.

Obviously, there is no such free gift offer on the official website of Jio. And
the only person getting lucky by scratching the card is the conman - Lakhi
Mallick.

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Published By:
Sumana Nandy
Published On:
Dec 21, 2022
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