Pay for Unmasking India’s cyber scam crisis by Scroll.in

. Imagine being "digitally arrested" in your own home, by criminals dressed as policemen.. It often starts with a phone call. You are told your phone number is linked to a serious crime. . Or that the customs have intercepted a shipment in your name filled with drugs.. Even though they know they are innocent, most Indians will do anything to avoid a brush with the law. These scamsters prey on these fears, duping people into giving away their life's savings.. . It's big business: Indians could lose Rs 1.2 trillion to cyber frauds over the next year, government data suggests.. . Scroll wants to unearth how these scams work by tracing them to their source: South East Asia.. . Fund our investigative reporting in Cambodia, where criminal syndicates have trapped Indians as cyber slaves to fleece others back home.. . Armed with ground reporting, we will join the dots, explaining how a range of shifts in recent years have combined to create fertile conditions for these frauds: rampant data leaks, abuse of Aadhaar, lack of digital privacy, political misuse of investigative agencies, a jobs crisis, and more.. . Our series will also tell you what you can do to protect yourself, and if you have been scammed, how you can seek redress..

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