UPI requestScam drill
The refund that is really a payment
This is a real pattern, written out as it arrives. Read the message first and see how many of the tells you catch before the answers.
Spot the scam · UPI request
The refund that is really a payment
Collect request · ₹24,500 "sir refund process ho gaya, bas apna pin daal dijiye 🙏"
If money has already gone
Call 1930 and tell your bank, in that order, as soon as you can. The first hour is when a transfer can still be frozen. This is a crime that happened to you, not a failure on your part — and the people who answer that number hear it every day.
Every number, and what to sayWhere this came from
The one rule that defeats most of them
A lesson in UPI and payment fraud. The drill teaches the tell; the lesson teaches the rule underneath it.