[Resolved]  Quikr — Fake products being sold under the guise of the Army and financial duping

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This is the advertisement link. I had reached out to the person over call, and they mentioned his name is Praveen. He told me the fridge is brand new, unused and available for only 5000 rupees overall. Then he told me the process through which the product would be delivered - through Army transport services and that I need to pay 510 rupees as payment against the generation of the receipt. It seemed authentic up till this point but the person repeatedly kept on calling me "Bro" and tried to persuade me by saying that "koi tension nahi lena hai."

He sent me the QR code that was to be used for the payment. The code wasn't in Praveen's name however, and was apparently in a person named Pappu Kumar's name, the name of the army transport services manager. I continued to make the payment though, and was told by him that the receipt along with the fridge itself, will reach me the next day's morning.

The very next morning, messages and images were sent to me from this number that made me uncomfortable by the usage of the word "dear." They had even sent the image of a packed delivery, arguing that that was the fridge, and the receipt for payment, which at first appeared doctored. Finally, this suspicion was confirmed when I insisted upon not paying the 2000 rupees charge he'd said needed to be paid to complete the delivery despite also informing me that the delivery van was only 15 minutes away from my address. Upon asking Praveen multiple times where the delivery van was, he raised his voice, shouted at me and threatened to register a case against me, and that's when the deal was called off.