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Covers online fraud and cybercrime for RakshaAI translating India's most active digital threats into plain-language guides that tell you exactly what to do.
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About
Rabinarayan Pradhan covers cybercrime and digital fraud for RakshaAI. His focus is on the scams that are actually harming people in India right now not abstract threats, but the exact calls, messages, and links that are landing in real inboxes every day.
Before writing a single guide, he researches the full anatomy of each scam: how the first contact happens, what psychological pressure is applied, where the money goes, and why victims often smart, careful people still fall for it. That research shapes articles that don't just warn but explain.
Every piece ends the same way: with specific, time-sensitive actions you can take. Call 1930 within 30 minutes. Screenshot this. Report here. Because a guide that tells you "be careful" without telling you what to do isn't actually useful.
“Most people who get scammed aren't careless. They're just missing one piece of information that nobody told them in time.”
Rabinarayan is based in India and writes exclusively about threats targeting Indian internet users UPI payment fraud, digital arrest impersonation, fake task job apps, phishing links, and the growing wave of AI-generated scam content targeting Hindi and regional-language speakers.
Coverage
UPI Fraud
Fake collect requests, QR code traps, SIM swap attacks, and how scammers exploit India's payment rails.
Phishing & Fake Websites
Lookalike domains, cloned bank portals, and spoofed delivery links that steal credentials and money.
Fake Job Scams
Telegram task groups, work-from-home traps, and the pig butchering playbook that has cost Indians crores.
Digital Arrest Scams
Fake CBI, ED, and NCB impersonation calls the psychology behind India's fastest-growing phone fraud.
Cyber Safety
Practical steps Indians can take today to protect their UPI IDs, phone numbers, and personal data.
Reporting & Recovery
How to use Helpline 1930, file at cybercrime.gov.in, and what to do in the first 30 minutes after being scammed.
Writing
Turn cyber awareness into ten automatic habits. Learn from verified Indian cases, follow a five-minute Sunday routine and teach one simple rule at a time to your family.
An SMS at 8:45 pm says the power goes off at 9:30 pm unless you call an officer immediately, and nobody in the house is sure whether the bill was paid. Indian law makes that message impossible: Section 56 of the Electricity Act, 2003 requires fifteen clear days of written notice. Delhi cyber police traced one case that opened with a Rs 13 verification payment and ended at Rs 20.26 lakh. The three variants, the documented cases, and the check that takes 30 seconds.
The worst place to discover a policy is fake is a hospital reception desk, with a family member in a wheelchair three feet away. Gurugram police recovered around 60 fabricated claim files linked to roughly 25 insurers inside one hospital in February 2026, and insurers repudiated about 8 percent of 3.26 crore health claims in FY25. The six fraud formats, the documented Indian cases, and the two minute check that settles whether your cover is real.
An iPhone at Rs 8,999 on a domain called flashdeals-zone.shop looks ordinary in October and absurd in March, which is exactly why festive fraud works. McAfee found 69 percent of Indian festive shoppers were exposed to scams and around one in three fell victim. The seven formats that peak between Navratri and Diwali, the documented Indian cases behind each one, and the checks that take seconds.
Cambodian police walked reporters through a raided compound in Kampot in February 2026 and found a fake Indian police station, a CBI emblem and Greater Mumbai Police posters, built as a video call set. MHA and I4C assessments now place over half of the cyber fraud targeting Indians inside compounds in Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos, and more than 6,700 Indians have been rescued from them. The six stage compound model, the Rs 27,850 crore money trail the ED traced from one victim, and the two defences that actually work.
A grocery shop owner in Bulandshahr got an income tax notice for Rs 141 crore. A cobbler in Balotra got a GST demand for Rs 6.79 crore. A student in Gwalior got Rs 46 crore. None of them ever registered a company, all of them had handed over a PAN photocopy. India's tax ID was the world's most targeted identity document in 2024 at 27 percent of all document fraud. The 6 ways PAN is misused, the 7 free checks that take 10 minutes, and the reporting sequence that works.
Nobody hacked your account. Your password still works. And yet a profile with your face is asking your friends for Rs 5,000. Cyberabad Police flagged fake profile fraud in January 2026, a Bengaluru inspector's cloned account took Rs 20,000 from his own friend, and 3,847 fake LinkedIn recruiter complaints were logged in three months. The 4 cloning types, the 3 minute self check, and the reporting route that actually works.
A 74 year old Bengaluru teacher moved Rs 24 crore in 26 transfers before a bank manager noticed. A BHEL engineer paid a fake ED officer who reached him through a SIM deactivation robocall. Five real police reported Indian cases from 2025 and 2026, the seven patterns every one of them shared, and the single variable that decided who got their money back.
A phone connected to the free WiFi at Mumbai CSMT. Days later a fake RTO challan APK had reached 200 contacts, and a Bank of Baroda General Manager lost Rs 4,27,264 in 28 minutes. The 4 ways public WiFi is exploited in India, real sourced 2026 cases, the 7 rules that close the gap, and exactly what a VPN can and cannot do.
A Delhi mother heard her daughter crying on the phone and sent Rs 2 lakh. The daughter never called. Three seconds of a public reel was enough. The 6 ways AI is being weaponised against Indians right now, real police reported cases from Bengaluru, Belagavi, Kozhikode and Delhi, the detection check for each, and the one defence AI cannot beat.
A note in every article
Every piece Rabinarayan writes includes this number because the first 30 minutes after a fraud are your best window for account freezing and recovery. India's National Cybercrime Helpline is free, 24 / 7, and available in Hindi.
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