Beggars using Wikipedia founder’s picture to swindle money:
New Delhi. The begging mafia in Delhi is getting ingenious and keeping
with modern times. After using pictures of Hindu gods and goddesses to
extract money from the believers, beggars are now using pictures of
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and swindling money from internet
savvy residents of the national capital in the name of donation to the
community driven free web-based encyclopedia.
“I was surprised when this 9-year-old kid knocked on my window and
showed me Jimmy’s picture,” Rashi Taneja, a final year MBA student at
FMS recalled her experience when she was driving last evening, “Of
course I use Wikipedia for my project reports too often and I couldn’t
help giving 50 rupees to the kid, who gave a thumbs-up to me as if
liking something on Facebook.”
Such pictures of Jimmy are taking people by surprise at traffic lights
It was only later that Rashi realized that she might have been
cheated, for an organization like Wikimedia Foundation would never
employ child labor and begging tricks for raising funds.
“I was shocked to find out that there was no mention of ‘donating on
traffic lights to beggars’ as a way to give money to Wikipedia on
their website,” Rashi said, “Oh my god, I guess he was the same kid
who had sold me a heart-shaped balloon for 100 rupees on Valentine’s
Day.”
The Delhi police have denied any knowledge of the fake Wikipedia
donation racket being run by the begging mafia in the city.
“Begging was banned only during the Commonwealth Games,” Ranjeet
Sharma, a traffic police constable informed, “we can’t act against
them till there is any written complaint against this Jimmy guy. Who
is he by the way?”
Unlike the police department, the begging mafia in Delhi has accessed
and updated themselves with all the information about Jimmy Wales, and
the beggars have been trained to answer any queries by suspecting
Wikipedia users.
Ravindar, the kingpin of the begging mafia in Delhi, confirms that the
latest “initiative” has returned favorable results and they were all
set to take the campaign to the next stage and make it more
“impactful”.
“We have ordered Jimmy Wales masks, similar to Narendra Modi and Rahul
Gandhi masks,” informs Ravindar, “our kids would wear them and
suddenly appear at the windscreens of cars at traffic lights, just
like Jimmy Wales’ picture suddenly loads on a Wikipedia pages
currently.”
SOURCE:
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