Today's digital age has made many of our tasks much easier. Be it paying electricity bills online or any other important work, we can easily do it sitting at home. On one hand, after the advent of digital revolution, rapid changes have been seen in every field. On the other hand, parallel to this, there has been a continuous increase in the cases of forgery and cyber fraud. In this digital age, you need to be alert at every step. Your slightest carelessness can cause a big loss. These days, fraudsters are adopting new tactics to fraud people. In this series, fraudsters have come up with a unique method to cheat people. Let us know about it in detail -
Recently, electricity consumers have been warned that these days a special kind of fake message is circulating rapidly. In the message, a special phone number is written on the letterhead of the Ministry of Power.
Apart from this, it is also written on it that electricity consumers will have to deposit their bills within a certain time. If he doesn't do so. In this situation, their electricity will be cut off.
The thing to note is that this letterhead circulating on social media is fake. There are many types of mistakes in this. Apart from this, PIB Fact Check has also declared this message as fake.
In such a situation, you should not fall into the trap of such messages even by mistake. You should never share your banking or personal details with any other person. By doing this you may become a victim of fraud.
(PC: ISTOCK)