Editorial policy and corrections

The awareness library — guides in Hindi and English on the frauds doing the rounds: digital arrest, fake e-challans, OTP theft, WhatsApp hijacking, mole accounts and more. Each guide is the full text of one of our posters or comics, transcribed so it can be read, searched, translated and read aloud.

The weekly briefing — a curated list of the week's cyber fraud stories from Indian news outlets. Every headline links to the original publisher. We do not reproduce other newsrooms' reporting.

The briefing is assembled by an automated pipeline every Saturday. For each story, an AI model writes a short “why it matters” note and suggests which of our guides explains how to avoid that threat. The note is written from the text of the linked article, not from the headline alone.

Before anything is published, automated checks reject a note when:

• it contains any number that does not appear in the source article;
• it contains a phone number, website, email address or UPI id of any kind;
• it is a refusal, too short to say anything, or too long;
• the suggested guide does not exist in our library.

A note that fails is dropped, and the story is published as a plain link. A bad week produces a thinner briefing, never a guessed one. Editions written this way carry a disclosure at the end of the page.

• A phone number, link or payment address for “refund”, “recovery” or “helpline” services. The only numbers we print are official ones, such as 1930.
• Figures we cannot trace to a source.
• Paid placement presented as editorial content.

Sponsors support the publication. Sponsorship never influences what we cover or how we cover it, and sponsored material is always labelled as such.

If something we published is wrong — a fact in a guide, a note in a briefing, a broken link — please tell us through the contact page. Include the page link and what is wrong.

We fix errors as soon as we confirm them. Significant changes to a guide are reflected in its “Updated” date. A briefing note that turns out to be wrong is removed rather than rewritten after the fact.