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01 May 2021

Alert! UPI, payments frauds soar high in eastern Indian states

West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim are facing top frauds in KYC, fake cash-back, frauds through digital wallets, fake-selling, QR codes, UPI phishing, lottery scams and financial fraud on social media. The top scamsters are from Patna, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Meerut for one of the top payment apps (at 15 percent) and most QR Code scams originate from Assam, accounting for 20 percent of the total distribution. In QR code frauds, most fraudsters posed themselves as army men selling something on marketplaces.

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