{"id":3824,"date":"2013-02-19T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2014-06-17T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:10:53","slug":"beware-of-magic-pens-use-your-own-pen-to-write-cheques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/beware-of-magic-pens-use-your-own-pen-to-write-cheques\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Magic Pens: Use your own pen to write cheques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, a new scam came to light where a collection agent from Vodafone in Delhi was using <strong>magic pen to erase and alter the contents of the cheques.<\/strong> The magic pen writes as a common pen but the writing can be erased by heating the cheques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The modus operandi was simple. The agent persuaded the customers to use his pen to write cheque in favor of the mobile operator. Later he would heat the cheque with a lighter and erase the content. Then he would write the cheque in &#8220;self&#8221; and withdraw the cash from banks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scam came to light when\u00a0an Assistant Manager at HDFC Bank became suspicious of a cheque and called the police. The police\u00a0believes, he might have duped several people using this method.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What should you do?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was not aware of any such magic pens available in the market so easily and would have never suspected any fraud of this sort. But now that I know of this, <strong>I would advise everyone to use their own pens to write cheques or fill up various forms.<\/strong> You never know whats cooking up next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a new scam came to light where a collection agent from Vodafone in Delhi was using magic pen to erase and alter the contents of the cheques. The magic pen writes as a common pen but the writing can be erased by heating the cheques. The modus operandi was simple. The agent persuaded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[2005,2006,2004],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",693,284,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert-300x122.png",300,122,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",693,284,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",693,284,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",693,284,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",693,284,false],"yarpp-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Scam-Alert.png",120,49,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Amit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Yesterday, a new scam came to light where a collection agent from Vodafone in Delhi was using magic pen to erase and alter the contents of the cheques. The magic pen writes as a common pen but the writing can be erased by heating the cheques. The modus operandi was simple. 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