Fact Check: Jio Holi promotional offer rewards Rs 700 to customers? No, this is a scam

Hyderabad: For many people across the country, Holi is an occasion to spend time with their friends and family. The vibrant celebrations of the festival of colours are not just limited to individuals. Companies also make the most of the occasion by offering discounts and rewards. One such alleged promotional offer has taken social media by storm, amassing over 15.3 million views across just four Facebook posts.

The offer claims that Jio customers can avail of Rs 700 as a reward. This claim is made in four videos of the same promotional offer uploaded to Facebook on March 12.

The video contains an image of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries which leads Jio, logos of Jio Digital Life and JioCinema, along with a voiceover that says, “On the occasion of Holi, all Jio customers can avail Rupees 700 reward. Please click, to send the money quickly to your bank (account).” (Transcribed from Hindi audio)

The text on the post also reads, “On the occasion of Holi, all Jio customers can avail Rupees 700 reward. Please click, to send the money quickly to your bank.” (Translated from Hindi) (Archive)

Archived versions of three other Facebook videos making the same claim can be found here, here and here.

Fact Check

NewsMeter has found that the claim is false. The promotional offer is a scam. Jio has not issued any offer for its customers to avail a reward of Rs 700 for Holi.

On the official website of Jio, we did not find any offer or promotion stating that customers can avail a reward of Rs 700 for Holi.

The social media handles of Jio, including Instagram and Facebook, also did not contain any information regarding the Holi promotional offer.

The Meta Ad Library, where all the active advertisements on the Meta platforms can be searched and viewed, does not show any Holi promotional offers by the company’s official social media accounts.

We clicked on the viral promotional offers and were redirected to a website with the URL ‘festivvholiiioff.xyz’. However, the URL of the official website of Jio is ‘jio.com’, which is not the official site. An archive of the website can be found here.

On the website, we do not see any promotional offer related to Jio. However, the website contains an image of prime minister Narendra Modi, the logo of ‘Digital India’, and an image of a digital scratch card which stated, “Through the medium of ‘Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana’ everyone can avail free 1999 Rupees in their account. To send this to your account, scratch below.” (Translated from Hindi)

“Every Indian citizen gets a gift of up to Rs 1,999 in their account under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana,” is stated on the website. (Translated from Hindi)

Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) is a scheme launched by the Prime Minister on April 8, 2015 for providing loans to non-corporate, non-farm small, micro enterprises.

The website of the scheme does not contain information regarding a reward of Rs 1,999 for all citizens. We found that there are no news reports or social media posts regarding the same.

This makes it clear that both the Rs 700 Jio Holi offer claim and the Rs 1,999 Mudra Yojana claim are false. These are scams trying to mislead netizens with promises of getting easy money.

We used Scam Adviser to check the authenticity of the Website URL ‘festivvholiiioff.xyz’. Calling it a suspicious website, Scam Adviser identified that the website could be a scam.

Therefore, NewsMeter concludes that the viral promotional offer claim is false.Fact Check: Jio Holi promotional offer rewards Rs 700 to customers? No, this is a scam