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Keep others safe.
Short pages, written to be read on a phone and forwarded to someone who needs them.
- 22 short guides
- 41+ messages checked
- 8 scams explained
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If it has already happened
Start here if you tapped a link, shared a code or sent money. The first hours are the ones that decide whether a bank can do anything.
- I have already clickedThe question most people arrive with. Start here if you tapped a link.Read this first
- I have already sent moneyThe urgent path. Freeze, report inside 24 hours, what a bank can reverse.Read this first
- How to report a scam in India1930, the cybercrime portal, and your bank. What to have ready first.Read this first
Reporting and getting help
Where to take it, and who can actually act on it.
- Reporting in your stateCyber cell details differ across India. The routes that work everywhere.
- Reporting to your bankThe sequence to follow with any bank, and how to find the right number safely.
- Official contactsGenuine helplines and sender headers, so you never have to search for one.
- I no longer have the messageDeleted it, or asking for someone else? Answer a few questions.
Understanding the scam
What these messages are, how they work, and what the words mean.
- What smishing isThe patterns, with real examples. Written to be forwarded.
- What happens after you clickWhat a scammer actually does in the ninety seconds after you share a code.
- How these actually play outFour accounts of how a message turns into a loss.
- Genuine sender or spoofed?What a sender ID can tell you, and the important thing it cannot.
- Plain-language glossaryOTP, UPI, phishing, smishing, APK, sender ID.
What is going around
The templates in circulation and the warnings published here.
Practise and pass it on
The pages written to be forwarded, printed or taught from.
About this tool
What the checker does, what it cannot do, and how to keep it handy.
Know someone who would fall for one?
Most people do. The fastest thing you can do for them is send one of these pages before a message arrives, not after.