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Census 2026: Be careful or you could be cheated too? How to identify the real counting officials?
Samira Vishwas | May 1, 2026 3:24 PM CST

Be careful or you may also be cheated?
How to identify the real counting officials?

For census, government people often take the information to your door. But often some people take advantage of all this and mislead you. Have people started coming to your home for census too? Then you must be careful. It is not that the government officials do not want to give information but it is very important to know whether these officials are real or fake.

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Because currently a scam is happening on a large scale. Let’s find out exactly what this case is. From April 1, Census Officers will start visiting your home. These officers will ask you very simple and easy questions about your family. But let’s find out exactly what these questions are and what questions fraud officers are going to ask.

Now first of all let us know what questions you want to answer. How many people live in your house? Where do you get drinking water from? What are the facilities like TV, laptop, fridge in your house? Do you own or rent the house you live in? If the census officer asks you these simple and easy questions, you should answer these questions without hesitation.

But after this let us also know what questions fraud officers may ask you. What things can be dangerous to say? Asking for bank account number, your ration card and Aadhaar card, PAN card number is definitely dangerous. Giving any type of OTP can be dangerous for you. Keep in mind that real census officials do not ask you any of these things. But if you answer these questions and give the OTP, all the money in your account can disappear in an instant.

It can be any kind of scam. So be careful in time. Besides, the fraud authorities still find a way. Let’s also know what exactly it is. It will ask you to open an app and prompt you to click on a link in it. Apart from this, you will be asked to verify your data. But you should not fall into their trap at all. Because if you click on this link, your lifetime earnings will disappear in a moment. Only safety and awareness can keep you away from this scam.

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