MUMBAI: In a recent interview, TV actress Anjum Faikh shared about an incident, in which received a scam call and the person on the other end tried to take money from her. The call was apparently from a person who was pretending to be a representative of an online shopping website. She was told that she had won a contest and so they were offering refrigerators, TVs, and even an iPhone 12. While she was almost going to make a payment on the Google Pay app, she started to get suspicious and just saved herself from a major setback.
The actress shared, “Suddenly I get a call from an unknown number. I can’t recall her name, but she said that she was an online shopping website representative, and I am one of the lucky winners of some offers that happened a month ago, and I have to choose a gift from the list. When I heard they were offering refrigerators, TVs, and an iPhone 12, I couldn’t believe her. But this girl was so convincing that I was the winner and I got to choose my gift, for a moment I thought ‘wow’. I paused the series I was watching and my whole attention was diverted to her. I opened the app to check if I had received any notifications for the same, but I did not find any such notifications or mail that this girl was claiming.”
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She further added, “Fortunately I did not lose a penny, but I was about to. She told me to have my gift delivered within 48 hours and that I had to buy something from their application for 5K. I told her I just bought products worth 4.5k recently but she was adamant that if I don’t shop for 5k then at least buy a gift card for myself. The girl took me through the process step by step as to how I can purchase the gift card. The knowledge this girl had about the app made me trust her even more, so finally, I was on the gift card purchase page, I was about to click on the proceed to pay icon when she stopped me and said, ‘first preview it.’ When I did, I saw all the details and then I opened my Google Pay app, and she gave all the necessary details about an account number, its IFSC code, and everything. She said if I made the payment on Google Pay, it would reflect on the payment app as well as on their app. At that time, I got suspicious of her.”
Anjum also revealed that when the person called her back, she took her boyfriend on a conference call, while the person kept trying to convince them that it was a real call and not a scam deal. Fakih stated that the person ‘literally ghosted them after the confrontation’.
Anjum Fakih is a popular TV actress. She is famous for her roles in popular TV shows like Kundali Bhagya and Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. She is also well known for her roles in shows like Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, and Naagin 5. Currently, she is playing a role as Maitri in Ekta Kapoor’s show ‘Bade Acche Lagte Hain 2.’
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