I did not think that I would fall for one such attack! But I did and I salvaged the situation in time to come out unscathed! Sumit has a correction to be made to his PAN card and I have been helping him out. At one stage there is a need for a SMS OTP from Aadhar to verify his identity. We wait for the SMS OTP on his registered mobile number; but does not come in the stipulated 120 seconds. We presume that the Aadhar server is down and repeat this the next day and find that the OTP is elusive. A quick debug shows that his registered mobile number (serviced by MTNL ) is out of service. And for some odd reason it stayed that way for the entire day, repeated call to the call center reach the IVR and machine but no human so the problem is not resolved. Curious I scan through Sumit's phone and find an SMS from an unknown number (+91 9883453468) which speaks of his MTNL number not being KYC compliant. All this seem to add up. The non-functional phone and the SMS! And I jump at the
