Flipkart
Scam Alert: Fake “Flipkart Electronics Sale” Ads on YouTube Send You to trendorna.store — Do Not Pay
- Never pay from an ad. Close it, open the Flipkart app or type flipkart.com yourself, and search for the product there.
- Read the address bar before every payment. A real Flipkart order is paid on flipkart.com — not on trendorna.store, janvikurti.info or any other domain.
- Treat impossible pricing as the alarm, not the offer. A ₹36,999 phone at ₹699 is not a sale; nobody sells at a 98% loss.
- Ignore “only 3 left” and “3,538 people ordered in the last 30 minutes”. These counters are hard-coded to stop you from thinking.
- Never scan a UPI QR or approve a UPI request to receive a discount. UPI collect requests take money out; they never pay it in.
- If you already paid: call 1930 or file at cybercrime.gov.in the same day, tell your bank, and keep every screenshot and UPI reference number.
- Report the ad itself on YouTube (⋮ → Report ad) so the campaign gets pulled — that stops it faster than any single takedown.
🔍 Evidence — screenshots of the scam
ℹ️ What we found
On 19 August 2026 a reader sent us a sponsored YouTube Short advertising a “Flipkart Electronics Sale” with everything “just at ₹299”. It is not Flipkart. Every step after the ad is a copy, and the money goes to strangers.
We walked the whole funnel and stopped at the payment screen. Here is exactly what it does.
Step 1 — The ad
A paid Short runs on YouTube under the advertiser name “Filp mart” — a misspelling of Flipkart, one letter swapped. The creative uses Flipkart's real logo and wordmark and promises 87% to 97% off on Samsung, JBL, KENT and other brands. Because YouTube labels it “Sponsored”, it carries the credibility of a platform ad. It is not run by Flipkart.
Step 2 — The lookalike store
Tapping “Shop now” lands on trendorna.store, which brands itself “FlipMart — Shop More” in Flipkart's blue-and-yellow. The layout, the product page, the checkout steps and even Flipkart's “F-Assured” badge are copied. The URL carries Google Ads tracking parameters, so this is a bought ad campaign, not an organic video.
Step 3 — Prices that cannot exist
A OnePlus Nord CE6 5G (8GB/256GB) is listed at ₹699 against ₹36,999. A JBL PartyBox 710 is ₹399 against ₹59,999. The page adds “3538 people ordered this in the last 30 minutes” and “Only 3 Left in Stock” to rush you. No retailer, sale or clearance sells a ₹37,000 phone for ₹699. This is the tell — the entire scam depends on you not stopping to ask how.
Step 4 — The fake payment page
At checkout the site collects your name, mobile number and full delivery address, then hands you to janvikurti.info/pay/razorpay.php. That page is a copy of Razorpay's checkout with “Flipkart” printed as the merchant, offering UPI, cards, netbanking, wallets and a UPI QR code. Razorpay is a real payment company; this page is not theirs, and Flipkart is not the merchant. A genuine Flipkart order is never paid on a third-party domain.
What it costs you
If you pay, the money is gone — UPI transfers and card charges to a merchant you cannot identify are extremely hard to reverse. You have also handed over your name, phone number and home address, which is precisely the data used to set up the next round of “delivery” and “refund” calls.
If you have already paid
Call 1930 or file at cybercrime.gov.in immediately — reporting within the first few hours gives banks the best chance of freezing the transfer. Tell your bank or UPI app the same day and ask them to raise a dispute. Keep the screenshots, the UPI reference number and the SMS. Do not call any “customer care” number the site gave you; that leads back to the same people.
Where we have reported this
We have sent the ad, the domains and the payment page to Flipkart's grievance officer and brand-protection team, reported the sponsored ad to Google, and filed the details on cybercrime.gov.in.
How to check any “Flipkart sale” in five seconds
Flipkart sells only on flipkart.com and the official Flipkart app. Look at the address bar before you pay: if it does not say flipkart.com, it is not Flipkart, no matter what the logo says. Type the address yourself instead of tapping an ad, and treat any discount over about 80% as a warning rather than a win.
This alert describes what we observed on the ad and the sites named above on 19 August 2026. Flipkart is a trademark of Flipkart Internet Private Limited and is named here only to identify the brand being impersonated — Flipkart itself is a victim of this campaign, not a party to it.
