Beware of fraud being done in the name of PM Cares, fraudsters created more than 9 such fake UPI IDs

The CERT-In, the nodal agency that looks after the cyber security of the country, has asked people making donations to the Prime Minister’s Cares Fund to beware of fake UPI IDs with similar names. Have said He said that the official UPI ID ‘PMKires @ SBI’ (pmcares @ sbi) has been issued by the government to donate to this fund. It is registered under the name ‘PM CARES’.

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Cert-in told that in this regard the government-

–PMKires @ pnb (pmcares @ pnb),–PMKires @ HDFCBank (pmcares @ hdfcbank),
–Pmcare @ yesbank (pmcare @ yesbank),
–Pmcare @ ybl (pmcare @ ybl),
–PMcare @ UPI (pmcare @ upi)
–Pmcare @ sbi (pmcare @ sbi)
–Fake UPI IDs like PMKires @ ICICI (pmcares @ icici) have been reported.

Those who donate to the Cert-in Fund have been asked to confirm the correctness of the UPI ID. CERT-In stated that the original UPI ID for contribution to PM-Cares Fund is ‘pmcares @ sbi’ and the name of the registered account is “PM CARES”.

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Apart from this, any ID is fake. The government has created a PM-Cares fund to combat the corona virus epidemic, in which everyone, from the common man to the big corporate, can contribute. The monitoring body said that CERT-In has received several reports about fake UPI IDs, which are similar to UPI IDs of ‘Prime Minister’s Civil Assistance and Relief Fund’ (PM-Cares) in emergency situations.
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