India, May 21 -- Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma encountered an alleged scammer who tried to impersonate him to obtain sensitive company information.

Sharma took to the social media platform X to share screenshots of a humorous exchange with the alleged scammer, penning a post titled "Impersonating myself to me".

He revealed the chain of WhatsApp messages in which the fraudster introduced himself as Vijay Shekhar Sharma and asked the real Sharma to save his "new" phone number.

In one of the messages, the alleged fraudster also urged Sharma to check and report back on the company's available funds.

The impersonator also demanded that Sharma share the number and contact details of the finance head of the company, and went so ...