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How each scam works, how to report it, what the law says, and what the numbers show. Every article cites its sources and is reviewed before publishing.
He was a doctor in London, or a Navy officer in Goa. The photos belonged to someone else. The matrimonial and romance scam script, line by l...
Three ministries touch every scam call. DoT owns the SIM and the number, MeitY owns the app and the website, MHA owns the fraud complaint. H...
NCRB says tens of thousands of cyber crimes a year; the 1930 system says tens of lakhs of complaints. Both are right. Here is how to read th...
NCW and NCPCR cannot arrest anyone. What they can do is make a police station move. Here is how to use each, and what to file alongside them...
Debited but not credited, paid twice, paid the wrong person, or paid a scammer: each is a different UPI problem with a different route. Here...
The OTP is the last lock on your money. Every OTP fraud is a story designed to make you open it yourself. Here is how the stories go, and th...
Children do not meet strangers in chat rooms any more; they meet them in game lobbies and comment sections. The settings, the conversations...
You do not need to remember passwords, and you should stop trying. The managers worth using in India, 2FA methods ranked weakest to stronges...
Fifteen minutes, one phone, nine settings. This is the baseline every adult in India should have, written so you can do it on the spot and t...
Same crime, three doors: email, voice and SMS. Here are the messages Indians actually receive, the red flags they share, and the two-minute...
Free Wi-Fi at the airport is mostly fine, the charging kiosk is almost certainly fine, and the thing that will actually get you is a login p...
Every section that appears on a cyber crime FIR in India, with its maximum sentence, in one table. Plus the regulatory penalties that apply...