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Funny incident. We post an ad to sell our son's old pram on OLX. We get a call from a prospective buyer in just a few hours.
He wants to buy the pram. I offered to show it to him before taking money. He didn't want to see it. He also didn't want to bargain on the price. I thought we were slightly on the higher side.
He offers to pay using Paytm and pick up the Pram the next day. Most people usually don't do this. My spidey sense is going crazy now.
I'm like okay. Now he tells me to open Paytm app. Go to UPI section. He's sent me a request to PAY HIM Rs 2500. He's talking fast and I'm like dude, this is not how you do it. You PAY ME.
He gives me some goli about his account being a merchant account and such. I'm on to him now but I still play along like I usually do with telescammers. Finally I tell him no, you send me money and not ask me to pay.
I might have clicked and paid if I wasn't paying attention. This can really happen. And once the money is gone, it's gone. I grew up using computers and on the internet. So it was easy for me to spot this.
I don't blame Paytm or Olx for this. That guy is a fraud. And we have many of them. What's important for us is to be literate about these things. If you have someone older in your family using Paytm etc, please take some time out and tell them about these things.
