Fraudulent Posts Claiming To Share Jio, PhonePe Cashback Offers Go Viral

These posts sharing links to cashback offers from Jio and PhonePe are fraudulent.

A set of posts, which claim to share links to avail cashback schemes from Jio and PhonePe, have gone viral on social media, where users are further sharing these posts.

(Archived versions of these posts can be seen here, here, here, and here.)

Are they true?: No, these posts are fraudulent.

• The links each of them share led to now-defunct websites or more fraudulent pages.

• None of the organisations mentioned have shared any such information about cashback schemes.

How do we know?: We noticed that under each of these posts, the links shared to avail these 'schemes' did not carry the name of the organisations.

PhonePe

Every offer claiming to share a PhonePe scheme showed a link reading 'get.offer.com'.

Clicking on these links led us to a website called 'festix.in', which was inaccessible at the time of writing this report

When we looked up the domain registration details for this website, we saw that the link was registered in 2024 and in the United States of America.

We compared this to PhonePe's actual domain registration details, which showed that the company's website was registered in 2015, through domain registration website GoDaddy.

• PhonePe announces all its offers and rewards on its social media pages, some of which can be seen on their Instagram page.

• Some of these posts informing users about cashback offers can be seen here.

• A blogpost shared under the 'Trust and Safety' page on their website, which addressed cashback fraud using PhonePe's name shared additional information.

• It categorically stated that "any URLs, social media posts, or phone calls promising Cashback are misleading," telling users that they did not have to take any additional action to avail cashback.

Jio's Holi Offers

Just like the links above, the offer claimed to be provided by Jio, too, carries a link that does not resemble the link to their official website.

• The link under these posts reads 'festivvholiioff.xyz' and the text with it tells the users, "You've Won Google Pay Reward."

When one clicks on this link, it redirects to page talking about a 'Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana', offering users ₹1,999 "for free in your bank account."

• While the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a legitimate scheme by the government, it has to do with offering loans to small, micro, medium, non-corporate, and non-farm entitites, up to the amount of ₹20 lakh.

• The Press Information Bureau (PIB) had called this graphic 'fake' in a 2024 post on X (formerly Twitter).

सोशल मीडिया पोस्ट में दावा किया जा रहा है कि कार्ड स्क्रैच करने पर पीएम मुद्रा योजना द्वारा सभी लोगों के खाते में ₹1999 आएंगे#PIBFactCheck

✅ यह दावा फर्जी है

✅ किसी भी संदिग्ध स्क्रैच कार्ड या लिंक पर क्लिक न करें

🔗अधिक जानकारी के लिए विजिट करें https://t.co/FkPSFJTFTW pic.twitter.com/r7oe8C9DNy

— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 23, 2024

• We also did not spot any such offers' details shared on Jio's website under the 'cashback offers' page.

• Their social media accounts on Instagram and Facebook, too, did not share details about such an offer for Holi.

Conclusion: Neither PhonePe nor Jio have announced any such cashback offers as the posts claim.

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