Cyber frauds surge past ₹4,200 crore; Amazon joins govt scam awareness push

Indians lost more than ₹4,245 crore to cybercrime in the first ten months of FY25. The country saw 2.4 million cases of digital payment fraud, according to government data.

Unified Payments Interface (UPI)—the backbone of India’s payments revolution—has become a prime target. Losses from UPI-linked scams alone stood at ₹1,087 crore across 1.34 million cases in FY24.

To address this, Amazon India has partnered with the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs to launch Scam Free September, an…