‘Mera Naam Vinod Kumar’: How Delhi MCD Parking ‘Scam’ Gave Internet An Unlikely Meme

First came Binod. Then it found a worthy successor in Bhupendra Jogi. And now… we have Vinod. The new meme was not conceived from a hilarious interview, a YouTube comment or a comedy sketch, but came into

being from an alleged UPI scam brought to light by a Delhi resident recently. Now, some corners of the Internet are ironically typing away ‘Vinod’ in comments because of the comical interaction the Delhi resident had with the alleged scammer posing as an employee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and collecting money for parking.

The video of the incident gained traction when Razorpay co-founder Shashank Kumar and Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm took note of the scam.

Incident

In the video, the irked resident can be seen questioning the man dressed in an MCD uniform. The resident asks the parking employee to disclose whose QR code he was being made to scan.

The two then engage in a back-and-forth, and the conversation goes as follows:

“Mujhe aap kis cheez ka QR code dikha rahe ho? (Whose QR code are you showing me?)”

“Yeh thekedaar ka mobile code hai (This is the contractor’s QR code.)”

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“Abhi ruko aap. Scan kar ispe. MCD ki parking haina, MCD ka naam aana chahiye (You wait! Scan this code. If this is MCD parking, their name should show up after scanning.)”

“Yeh Vinod Kumar… Is bhen****** ko kyun dunga paise? (Why will I pay this Vinod Kumar?)”

The angered resident, behind the wheel, proceeds to ask the MCD employee his name, to which, after a brief pause, the employee responds by saying: “Mera naam Vinod Kumar hai (I am Vinod Kumar.)”

New Scam Unlocked 🔓 pic.twitter.com/JfZSIK3sQm

— Prof cheems ॐ (@Prof_Cheems) November 6, 2025

Vinod Kumar

Vinod Kumar’s revelation that he was Vinod Kumar after the resident had just abused Vinod Kumar left the Internet in splits.

“Bhupendra jogi vibes,” wrote one user reacting to the video.

“Dekh raha he Vinod? Kaise ghuma ke juta mu pe maara jata he?”

“Vinod ke sath vinod ho gya!”

“Vinod tumhe Binod bana raha hai.”

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However, when the jokes subsided, a section of Reddit users attempted to make sense of the entire incident.

“I don’t understand but doesn’t parking rights given out as a contact [contract], the contractor pays x in the auction and collects parking fees? If I am paying toll on a highway, it doesn’t show nhai, it shows company operating the parking (sic),” quizzed a user.

To which one responded by saying: “The problem here is that the parking attendant is not using the official POS machine to collect fees. Instead he is using some other qr code image that is registered to him, an attendant not an actual contractor (sic).”

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma & Shashank Kumar

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the Paytm chief, warned citizens, thereby promoting his product.

“Only Paytm Soundbox solves problem for many offline scams.” Sharma wrote on his X account.

Only Paytm Soundbox solves problem for many offline scams ! https://t.co/ezqCTycjU7

— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) November 7, 2025

Razorpay co-founder Shashank Kumar, possibly left red-faced by the incident as the QR code scanning device seen in the viral video belonged to his company, promised to introduce a technical tweak to the payment services and QR handling by disabling the photo gallery access for the seller.

“In the next software upgrade we will disable gallery access unless really needed for the seller,” he wrote on X.

UPI

UPI (Unified Payments Interface) is India’s instant, phone-number-linked mobile payment system that lets you transfer money 24*7 without the need for any bank details or lengthy branch codes. This seamless service has been adopted by local vendors, kirana stores, vegetable vendors, food delivery apps, restaurants, hotels, farmers, employees paying rent, Indian Railways, and Airline companies, among millions of Indians, hence eliminating the need to carry physical cash.