Listing fraud
Advance-rent housing listing
A too-cheap flat listing collects a token via UPI, then the listing and number disappear.
How Scam Works?
This conversation is invented. It shows the pattern so you can recognise it. It is not a real message, and nothing here should be replied to or paid.
Demonstration
Listing chat
Owner · relocating tomorrow
Scam message
Flat is ₹8,000 in that area. I fly out tonight. Send ₹5,000 token to hold it and I will share the keys.
What you might say
I can visit this evening.
Scam message
Three other tenants are ready to pay. Token first, visit after I land.
Do not pay a token for a home you have not walked through.