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For a people who were quite averse to the whole concept of credit, Indians really seem to be developing a new found love for the piece of plastic and banks have been happy to ride the wave.
But lately they've been left quite baffled because they are being being beaten at their own game. A growing community of people are constantly finding hacks to take advantage of the loopholes in credit-card reward systems. For some of them , in fact, it's going so well that they’ve turned their secret operations into lucrative businesses. Turns out they can make more money from it than their 9 to 5 jobs.
Meanwhile banks have realised they are being taken for a ride so some have taken extra security measures to keep such tricksters at bay.
**Correction: The credit for this story was mistakenly attributed to Gaurav Noronha whereas the actual writer is Rounak Kumar Gunjan. We apologise for the error
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Credit-card whizzes outsmart banks at their own game
Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, analytical business stories.
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For a people who were quite averse to the whole concept of credit, Indians really seem to be developing a new found love for the piece of plastic and banks have been happy to ride the wave.
But lately they've been left quite baffled because they are being being beaten at their own game. A growing community of people are constantly finding hacks to take advantage of the loopholes in credit-card reward systems. For some of them , in fact, it's going so well that they’ve turned their secret operations into lucrative businesses. Turns out they can make more money from it than their 9 to 5 jobs.
Meanwhile banks have realised they are being taken for a ride so some have taken extra security measures to keep such tricksters at bay.
**Correction: The credit for this story was mistakenly attributed to Gaurav Noronha whereas the actual writer is Rounak Kumar Gunjan. We apologise for the error
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Credit-card whizzes outsmart banks at their own game
Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, analytical business stories.

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