Video Showing Poor Kid Scanning FAStag Through Watch is FAKE

Recently, a video showing a poor kid scamming a car owner on the pretext of cleaning a windscreen went viral. Research shows the video is fake

Recently, a video showing a poor kid scamming a car owner on the pretext of cleaning the windscreen of a car went viral. The video was said to shed light on how easily one can scam FASTag users and steal money from the wallet linked to the RIFD tag. Basically, the video showed a small boy cleaning the windshield and in the process, scanning the FASTag on his watch. However, soon after this video went viral, it turned out to be fake.

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Fake FASTag Scam Video

After the video went viral and several FASTag users started fearing getting scammed, TOI‘s Gadgets Now got into touch with ethical hacker Sunny Nehra who was quick to tell that the video is fake. The hacker said it is impossible to steal money from the FASTag account so easily. Nehra even highlighted the same on the popular microblogging site, Twitter. He explained the working of FASTags and the security system they come with. He said –

1. Every Toll Plaza holds a unique code allocated to it by FASTag
2. Every Toll Plaza has a napper acquirer bank.
3. The two are mapped at NETC (National Electronic Toll Collection) system.
4. Through RFID technology, NETC facilitates payments at NETC-enabled toll booths without requiring to stop.
5. Geo codes are mapped for all toll plazas that support FASTag
6. The IP addresses at the tolls are whitelisted by banks, SI and NPCI

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All this means that only the toll and parking plazas that are licensed by banks and NETC can initiate transactions. This, too, can be done only at the registered geo-locations and not anywhere else. Furthermore, for every transaction to take place, a toll plaza ID that is created by and known to SI, acquirer bank and NPCI, is required.

“NPCI is connected with member banks through its network and there is no way that these transactions can leak,” says Nehra. Yet another inbuilt security mechanism that FASTag offers is notification alerts. Once a customer pays through FASTag, he gets an SMS stating the Toll Name, Transactional Date, Transaction Amount and Available Balance in the FASTag account. In fact, vehicle users can even check the toll fare on NHAI websites for all the toll plazas.

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Paytm terms viral video as fake

A statement issued by Paytm on the viral video reads – “A video is spreading misinformation about Paytm FASTag that incorrectly shows a smartwatch scanning FASTag. As per NETC guidelines, FASTag payments can be initiated only by authorised merchants, onboarded after multiple rounds of testing. Paytm FASTag is completely safe & secure.”