Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma shared his recent experience of encountering an impostor allegedly posing as him!
Vijay Shekhar Sharma exposes scammer impersonating him
Titled “Impersonating myself to me", on the social media platform X, he shared what appeared to be a humorous exchange between him and a scammer, who was allegedly trying to pose as him to extract sensitive information about Paytm’s funds.
Sharma posted a chain of WhatsApp messages on X in which the fraudster introduced himself as “Vijay Shekhar Sharma" and asked him to save his “new phone number".
The impersonator also demanded that he share the number and contact details of the finance head of the company, and went so far as to ask him to forward a suspicious .exe file—disguised as a GST document—to the finance executive.
Precaution against digital fraud
The Telecom Department on Wednesday introduced the ‘Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)’ to provide enhanced intelligence sharing with banks, UPI service providers and financial institutions.
According to the DoT, it is a crucial step towards tackling cyber fraud and financial crime.
This new tool will enhance cyber protection and validation checks in case of mobile numbers flagged with this tool, when digital payment is proposed to be made to such numbers.
FRI allows for swift, targeted, and collaborative action against suspected fraud in both telecom and financial domains, an official release said. [Source: Hindustan Times]
“…Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has announced sharing of ‘Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)’ with stakeholders — an output from a multi-dimensional analytical tool developed as part of the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) to empower financial institutions with advance actionable intelligence for cyber fraud prevention," the release added.
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