How BHIM app users are making easy money by using govt's cashback scheme

Lakhs of people have monetarily benefitted from the government's digital payments push

Wasim Akram (name changed), an engineering student in Kolkata, has been leaving his phone number on internet forums for the last six days. 

Akram saw a video, which purportedly tells people how to make Rs 750 a month by just doing transactions through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Now, he is busy looking for 20 people on the internet who can receive payments from his phone and give it back to him just so that he can earn the cashback.  “There are many active WhatsApp groups where people join and leave their virtual payment addresses to increase their monthly transactions