The person asked him to like and subscribe to YouTube videos to get paid.
With the significant increase in the use of digital systems over the past few years, scammers are devising new ways to defraud gullible people. However, what happened when a woman trolled a scammer who tried to cheat her using WhatsApp has left the internet in splits.
Taking to Twitter, Udita Pal, co-founder of Bengaluru-based Salt, a fintech platform that facilitates international transactions, shared a post about how someone tried to cheat her using the Messenger app. But what left the internet laughing was his way of handling the situation and his reply to the scammer.
“I’m going to hell for this.” Ms Pal wrote, sharing a series of screenshots of WhatsApp chats purported to show her communication with the scammer.
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and that secret went with his block pic.twitter.com/GaNwQejOPF
– Udita Pal đ§ (@i_Udita) May 5, 2023
The scam offered Ms. Pal a fake job. The person asked him to like and subscribe to YouTube videos to get paid. “You don’t have to pay any fees, all you have to do is spend a few minutes on your mobile phone and you’ll get 150!” The message from the scammer has been read.
Further, the man told Ms. Pal that he would assign her three tasks, the first being to like a YouTube video and subscribe to the channel. “Only watch for 10 seconds. Send me a screenshot when you’re finished,” he said. To this, Ms Pal replied “Ok” and then shared a screenshot of a different YouTube video titled “Caught some idiot trying to scam”.
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Ms Pal shared screenshots of their WhatsApp chat on Friday and since then her post has garnered over 1,200 likes and several reactions. In the comments section, while some users called her chat “brilliant”, others filled the section with laughing emojis.
A user wrote, “I was also offered a job a few days ago. Now, I am planning to retire early.” âYou should offer them a salt for their cross border payments to their employees who are busy liking YouTube videos from overseas,â jokingly suggested another.
A third user said, “I did something less creative, but also nice. I replied with a voice note that lasted 20 seconds. In it, I was able to mimic a giant vomit and make loud farts, and Then I blocked the number.” While a fourth joked, “The worst part is the name. I actually asked how you come up with these foreign names”.
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