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Even when the traveler was about to pay Rs 6,000, the auto driver did not correct him with the appropriate price.

The driver of the car was eventually exposed. (Image source: Facebook)

A man played a very innocent and almost stupid role in trying to expose a Delhi auto driver after inquiring about his service charges to Connaught Place. In a video shared with the title ‘Biggest Auto Driver Scam’ on Facebook, one can see this traveler approaching an auto driver and asking him how much he would charge to take him to the care center in New Delhi.

The traveler acted as if he was not comfortable speaking in Hindi and was only able to respond to his inquiry in broken English. He then asked the car driver to pay the fee, and the car owner told him, “Rs 600.” After that, the traveler said to him: Tell me the appropriate price?

“Sir, the right price is 800 rupees.”

The car driver then pulled a usual trick to get the price he wanted for the service. He tried to convince the traveler that he was actually offering him a discount because the real price was Rs 800. “Sir, as you know, this is night time… a lot of traffic (there),” the auto driver said, insisting that he asked for the fair price of Rs 600.

Moments later, the traveler, who was still acting stupid to eventually reveal the auto driver in his social experiment, wondered if the auto driver was receiving online payments via UPI? “Yes, online (available),” the car driver said, shaking his head in the affirmative.

At this point the traveler began to spot the car driver when he took out his mobile phone and wrote 6000 on his calculator instead of the 600 that was required and asked “this?” The car driver looked at the screen closely, and even though he knew that the customer had written an extra zero, he said: “Yes, this is (the price).”

“How can you ask me for 6000 rupees?”

As the video continued, the traveler insisted on making pre-payment before entering the car and visiting Connaught Place. He asked the auto driver to show him the UPI QR so that he can scan and make online payment.

After scanning the QR, the man wrote Rs 6,000 on the screen and before completing the payment using his UPI PIN, showed it again to the auto driver and asked, “Are you sure?” He also showed it to his fellow car driver, who asked him to which destination this amount was being requested? When told it was about CP, this motorist suspected something was wrong with the whole conversation and drove away.

But the original auto driver did not correct the traveler about the price on the screen, hoping that somewhere he would end up getting Rs 6,000 instead. The traveler caught him shouting at him: “Are you for real? How can you ask me 6,000 rupees for this?” The driver never admitted guilt in this matter and, in a vague way, said he was just going through the payment process.

The traveler’s social experiment worked, as the auto driver never asked him to correct his typing error when he was stupid and said he was about to pay Rs 6,000.

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