How An Aadhaar Fraud Forces The Poor Into Paying For Welfare Schemes They Do Not Want

Across India, banks are enrolling account-holders in social security schemes without their assent. Kiosk operators or banks’ business correspondents deceitfully obtain customers’ fingerprints for authentication via the Aadhaar-enabled Payment System, thus imposing the Narendra Modi government’s welfare schemes on the rural poor. Kiosk operators allege that banks pressurise them to enrol customers, by hook or crook, in the government’s life insurance, accident insurance and pension schemes.

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-kadapa-police-bust-aadhaar-enabled-payment-system-scam-two-held/article66494470.ece

The gang allegedly scanned the data and enhanced the quality by reportedly using Photoshop software. They cloned fingerprints on butter paper by using a polymer sheet and heating it at a certain temperature with a chemical #Aadhaar #AePS

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After a decade of #AePS failures, #NPCI has finally put in place a (relatively simpler) way to logde #AePS grievances

Customers can now lodge #AePS complaints at https://www.npci.org.in/register-a-complaint