Aadhar Card fiddle Alert Lock your Aadhar Card incontinently to avoid this big fraud
Aadhaar- Enabled Payment System( AEPS) allows Aadhaar card holders to withdraw cash using only bank name, Aadhaar number and biometric authentication. Now, scammers are stealing victims’ point data to steal up to Rs 50,000 per day.
Aadhaar card holders across India are taking to social media to warn citizens about a new type of fiddle in which your bank account is zeroed out by scammers using loopholes in the new Aadhaar- enabled payment system( AEPS). Can be voided till. In this fiddle
, there’s no compass for OTP authentication and a scammer can steal plutocrat from your bank account by gaining access to your point data, knowing your Aadhaar number as well as the name of the bank that has your account. What is worse is that you will not indeed get an SMS announcement when plutocrat is debited from your account.
Cyber cafes, photocopy shops, hospicesetc. are the major places where Aadhaar figures can be stolen and also the scammers generally chase the victims to know the name of the bank. Now, the final piece of the AePS jigsaw is the point pattern. This is where scammers get creative and try to gain point data from land registry services or other sources where fingerprints are used to authenticate services. This point data is ingrained on an artificial silicone thumb which is used to withdraw plutocrat using AePS.
To stay safe from this fiddle, it’s important that Aadhaar card holders must lock their biometric data using mAadhaar app or UIDAI website. Since AePS is enabled by dereliction for all Aadhaar card holders and biometric data is also uncorked by dereliction, it’s important for druggies to note this and disable it to stay safe.
To disable AePS and lock your Aadhaar card biometric data, download the mAadhaar app on your smartphone( Android/ iOS) and use the mobile number linked to your Aadhaar to signup. corroborate your Aadhaar details and choose the option to lock your biometrics using the app. Note that you can unleash biometrics using the app whenever you need to. There’s also an option to lock your Aadhaar number on the app. This prevents druggies from subscribing up for services online using their Aadhaar number and OTP.
