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Amid growing cases of fraud from the cab drivers in several metro cities, a case has caught the attention of the netizens on social media in which a 25-year-old man played along with an auto driver's ploy for the fraud and outplayed him using sympathy. 

A Reddit user, “Sharp-Celery-6745" posted that a Rapido cab tried to trick him by showing the false screenshot of the fare. He described that he booked a cab at 11 pm from Bengaluru’s Central College to Hoodi even though the driver had a rating of just 2.6 stars. The user said that he booked the Rapido as he was close to the location and it was raining heavily outside. 

The user described that the price for the ride while booking was Rs 385, but the driver claimed that the fare was Rs 600 upon reaching the destination, almost double the real price. The man realised that the driver was trying to trap him as there was no stoppage in between, and the weather was not suitable. However, the user decided not to confront him straightaway and play along. 

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“Booked a Rapido cab from Central College to Hoodi. The fare shown: ₹385. The driver had a 2.6 rating (red flag), but it was raining, and he was nearby, so I took the ride. Uneventful journey, apart from the uncomfortable Indica, but manageable," he wrote on Reddit.

“At the drop, the driver claimed the fare was ₹600, showing a screenshot from – what I understood after 60 seconds – a previous ride. My app showed the trip to be still in progress, and there were no route deviations or stops. I understood his scam but chose not to confront him," the man continued. When the user confronted him, the driver started giving several excuses, including the server might not have updated the fare because of poor weather. 

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However, the user persisted with the original amount and followed every step the driver asked him to follow. The Reddit user later said that the driver ultimately left the spot after realising that his trick did not work on him and his Uno-reverse sympathy tactics worked in that condition.

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