Free scam help for India
Something feels off.
What do I do next?
Send us the call, the message, the link or the app. We check it against the open record and tell you what it actually is, free, and with nothing to sell you afterwards.
Free to read. Nothing to sign up for. We do not ask you for money, documents, OTPs or remote access, and neither should anyone claiming to help you recover funds.
How we check it
Scammers leave a paper trail. It is public, and we know where to look.
The work is called OSINT, short for open-source intelligence. Everything a fraud needs in order to look real leaves a record somewhere public: when a domain was registered, who really publishes an app, whether a company exists at all. The scam is built to survive a glance. It rarely survives a check.
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The domain's age
A bank portal registered nine days ago is not a bank portal. Registration dates are public and take seconds to read.
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Who publishes the app
Real government and bank apps name a real publisher. A lookalike names a person, a shell, or nobody at all.
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Whether the company exists
Company registries are searchable. A recruiter from a firm with no registration anywhere is the whole answer.
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Where the photo came from
Profile pictures get stolen. One that has been online for fourteen years under a different name settles it.
Worked example
A Bengaluru engineer was sent malware by a recruiter from a company called Trifleck. Public records showed four shell companies sharing a registrar, a privacy proxy and a street address, two of them registered three hours apart. The recruiter's photo was lifted from a fourteen-year-old profile.
That is the same check we run when you send us something, scaled down to the few minutes your situation actually allows. Send it on WhatsApp or by email. If money has already moved, call 1930 first, because we are slower than a bank freeze.
Start here
What just happened to you?
Pick the one that sounds like your situation. Red means money may be moving right now.
- I have already lost money The first hour decides whether you get it back. Start here.
- Someone called saying I am under arrest Police, CBI, ED or Customs on a video call. No such thing exists in Indian law.
- Someone is threatening to leak my photos or video Sextortion. Do not pay, do not delete anything. What to do in the first hour.
- My phone suddenly lost network Could be a SIM swap in progress. Act before the OTPs start arriving.
- A message says my KYC or account is blocked Bank, wallet or SIM KYC expiry messages are one of the most common scams in India.
- I was asked to scan a QR code to receive money Scanning a QR code never credits money to you. Only debits.
- A WhatsApp group is helping me invest Pig butchering. The profits on the screen are not real and the money is gone.
- I was sent an APK file to install A wedding invite, a bank app, a courier update. Installing it hands over your phone.
- I got a job or work-from-home offer Registration fees, task-based earnings and Telegram recruiters are the tells.
- I got an unpaid bill or challan warning Electricity disconnection and traffic challan SMS scams follow the same script.
- My boss messaged me from a new number Urgent, confidential, needs a payment right now. Verify before you act.
- I am not sure, something just feels off One habit stops most scams: pause, verify, then act.
Reporting a cyber fraud in India
Right now
Call 1930
The national cyber crime helpline, operated by I4C under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Open 24/7. Call before you do anything else, because banks can sometimes freeze the receiving account within hours.
Within 24 hours
File at cybercrime.gov.in
A formal written complaint on the national portal. Keep the acknowledgement number, your bank will ask for it, and it is what makes the chargeback process possible.