In a shocking incident, a squadron leader of the Indian Air Force (IAF) was allegedly duped to the tune of Rs.75,000 by an online fraudster who posed as an Army official. On July 23, 2019, squadron leader Ravinder Yadav registered an FIR in which he stated that he had put up his sofa set for sale on an online site.

In his complaint, he said that he received a call from one Sahil who posed as an army Jawan and said that had seen the advertisement and wanted to buy the sofa set from Yadav. The two parties agreed to do the payment via Paytm. Yadav said that he does not have a Paytm account and redirected Sahil to his relative Ruchi Yadav's account to initiate the transaction.