Ashok S.

I just got a call from a mobile number . The IVR said , “We are from telecom department, your phone number has been blocked due to *Beep reasons*” To continue and speak to our customer care , press 9” I pressed 9 , unlike all other government customer care , they immediately transferred my call and I don’t wait even for 10 seconds. The customer care in his South Indian accent , informed me that one number which is registered on my name in Kolhapur Maharastra has been found violating rules and found doing serious crimes like sending porn videos to unknown people . The number he was talking about was ofcourse not my number and out of curiosity I told him to cancle the number , since it’s not in my name . He replied , ok we will help you to remove it from your adhar . He was sounding totally like he is doing some kind of favour on me and he is a govt employee . But by this time , I guessed that if I have committed such crime , why should they simply remove my number and not asking to come to cyber crime office or something like that . Then the person told me that I need to give me my adhar number to him and one OTP will come which I have to tell him so he can remove that number from my account . By that time I was quick enough to check the registered number on my adhar on TAFCOP . So it was now clear that he was a fraud . I disconnected the call . But , the thing is that I was quick enough to guess the fraud which was about to happen . Most of us couldn’t have even guessed it , he was so convincing and IVR made it look so authentic. If anyone of you get any such calls or your parents get a call like this , make sure you tell them in advance to cut the call . No need to get nervous . No need to panic . Just stay calm . If you have not done anything wrong , then no once can harm you . But these phone calls and giving them any OTP can ruin your savings . Satark rahen , Sawdhaan Rahen . Sabak ek ko , seekh hum sab ko 😬