Fake websites offering petrol pump licences under scanner
New Delhi: Websites offering fake petrol pump licenses from state and private oil companies have proliferated on the internet, using google search advertising and online transfers to lure and dupe gullible people desperate to own filling stations.
Late last year, three state-run oil companies – Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCLNSE -0.10 % – together launched a website, petrolpumpdealerchayan.in , as a single window interface for people interested in 78,000 petrol pumps licenses they had offered. While the licensing process is underway, some people have put up fake websites that closely imitates the content, design and the domain name of the original, and promise new pump licenses.
