A case of fraud through tampering with a QR code used for payments at a sweet shop has come to light in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. The accused placed his own QR code on the shop counter, after which online payments made by customers buying sweets started going into the accused’s account instead of the shopkeeper’s account. Initially, the shopkeeper did not even get a hint of it.
It is being said that the accused took advantage of an opportunity at the shop and replaced the original QR code with his own code. Because of this, customers believed they were paying the shop, while the amount was being transferred to another account. When the shopkeeper suspected irregularities in payments, he had the CCTV footage checked.
After the footage showed the entire act of changing the QR code, the matter was exposed. Following the incident, the need to verify QR codes and check the shop’s name during digital payments has once again come to the fore.
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