An Indian resident named Raj received $110 (about six thousand rubles at the current exchange rate) through the application, but soon the company asked him to give him three times as much. as he wrote “BBC”soon the guy began to blackmail for the sake of payments.
According to him, a copy of the ID card had to be provided through an app on the smartphone in order to receive a loan. Raj got the money, but three days later they started demanding a loan from him.
The man said he was too afraid to go to the police. According to him, creditors were able to access all his contacts on the smartphone through the application. After that, the victim was threatened to send nude photos of his wife to his colleagues and friends.
As a result, to solve the problem, the Indian began to take out loans in other financial applications to pay off the first. As a result, he returned 33 applications and eventually owed more than $6,000 (about 363,000 rubles).
The TV channel stated that this type of fraud with micro loans through applications has become extremely common in India. According to Reserve Bank of India, at least 600 such illegal applications were detected from 1 January 2020 to 31 March 2021.
Former IT Specialist saidChanges to some settings on the smartphone can cause the device to turn off or cause permanent malfunction of the gadget.