Beware! These pictures of fake Rs 1000 notes, coins are doing rounds on WhatsApp
Pictures of fake Indian currencies are doing rounds on social media. Beware.
Key Highlights
- Fake Rs 1000 notes pictures have been circulated via social media.
- RBI has not released any Rs 1000 notes or Rs 1000 coins.
- Fake Indian currency reached Rs 2.55 crore was uncovered in India post demonetisation.
Social media networks likes Facebook and WhatsApp being the quickest ways for fake news to spread without it being properly verified have done it again. A number of pictures have been circulated picturing ‘new’ Rs 1000 notes and Rs 1000 coins.
This is fake news.
These picture are very clearly photo shopped images of Rs 2000 notes being promoted as Rs 1000 notes. It has been pictured in a green colour with Reserve Bank of India written at the top and complete with Mahatma Gandhi’s picture.
However at the top of the note inscribed in Hindi reads the words ‘Two Thousand Rupees.’
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