We never know Which learning helps us at what point of time. Its not only our children who learn from school but sometimes efforts made by school for Parents proves to be very fruitful. Here is how I, a Parent, got saved from fraud trap .
Few days back we thought of replacing our furniture. On friends advice I uploaded an advertisement on OLX for old one to sell. I became so surprised, within a few minutes so many responses came for buying. Some asking for our mobile no. to get the deal finalized. It was for the first time I was using OLX. I shared the mobile no. with one of the user. The deal got finalized in no minutes. He agreed to take all the stuff immediately and at the amount we offered. That sounds Great ! Isn’t it. He asked me about Paytm. I told him yes I do have Paytm. He asked me to share any UPI I had. I denied. I asked him to transfer the amount in my bank account but he denied. Now he transferred Rs. 1 to my paytm to check if I am receiving payment. Yes I received it. He asked me to scan the payment & send it to him so that he can further transfer all the amount to me. Here I got alert and here comes the help of school . At this point of time THE HERITAGE SCHOOL VASANT KUNJ NEW DELHI came to my help. THSVK is very prompt in arranging workshops for not only students but for parents too. I a Parent use to attend all the workshops arranged by school . Its only because of that one of the Workshop on Cyber Crime & Safety By Renowned Cyber Security expert MR. RAKSHIT TANDON I got saved from being trapped. All this was happening the same way Mr. Rakshit Tandon explained us in workshop. I recalled all his wordings in my mind. I denied the person of giving any Scan or OTP. The person started becoming so angry and asking for refund of his Rs. 1. This ensures me that the person is fraud and if I share the scan or OTP or refund his Rs. 1 my all money will be lost from my wallet. He is fraud. I blocked his number. As soon as I blocked his number his mobile number automatically got erased from my mobile leaving no proof.
If I had not attended that workshop ,Then maybe I would had got trapped in this fraud net. Sometimes we become overwhelm by the responses but we have to be very aware & alert. I thank to School for making us aware before hand.
Another day I want some of the services for my business I Searched on Google and took the mobile number and everything got finalized. The hired team asked me to make the payment. Again Mr. Tandon’s advice stuck me. NO NEVER TAKE NUMBER FROM GOOGLE. It might be fake.Take it from their authorized Website. And that was again true. I haven’t made the payment and take service via authorized channel.
I thank School for arranging such workshop for us & taking pain to remind us daily to attend them. Thanks to Mrs. Sunita Swaraj, Principal of the school for taking such great initiatives. We must attend the workshops arranged by Schools, we never know what new things we learn from them which proves to be fruitful in future.
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