Crooks are resorting to fake apps like ‘prank
Paytm’ to con shopkeepers and merchandise owners in Hyderabad. The conmen have walked away with their shopping bags by showing a screen which says that the payment has been done.
Explaining how it is done, an officer of the commissioner’s task force said, “After shopping, they pretend to be using the PayTM app on their phones to pay the bill. They enter the details in the prank version, which shows a message mimicking the original saying that the payment has been made. They show the cashier the message with a fake transaction ID.”
