- Data Insights revealed by TrustCheckr, an analytics startup
- Top digital frauds in India occur in QR Codes, KYC, Cash-back, Fake Selling and lottery scams
- Users must beware of phone calls and SMS-es from non-home states offering ‘too-good-to-believe’ schemes
- Top cities where fraudster syndicates are active are Kolkata, Delhi, Jaipur, Guwahati, Patna, Chandigarh, Meerut
Insights into the survey reveal that the top scamsters were from Patna, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Meerut for one of the top payment apps at 15%. Most QR Code scams originate from Assam, accounting for 20% of the total distribution.
Interestingly, it was observed that many fraudster profiles claimed to be army men; this is most likely the result of border clashes between India and China due to which there was an upsurge in patriotic sentiments among the general public and the fraudsters looked to cash in on the sentiment by playing the emotional card. In QR code frauds, most fraudsters posed themselves as army men selling something on marketplaces.
With the pandemic having pushed people to lean further towards contactless payments, lack of awareness and vulnerabilities in confidential card details are increasing digital frauds. TrustCheckr identified over 1 million frauds together in B2B and B2C in the last 15 months - 25% scams in KYC and 20% in QR codes, while B2B scams were largely done with 30% fake identities and 25% synthetic identity frauds. TrustCheckr’s findings are based on 350,000 data points collected from top hashtags, 200+ Twitter handles, partner data shared over the last 12 months and proprietary Social scanning technology of TrustCheckr.
“The common thread of digital payment frauds is phone number and email address. We check fraud signals with phone/email, validate the customer authenticity using historical fraud trends, fraud data sets, history and provide simple REST APIs with phone numbers as input, integration in less than 48 hours,” said Adhip Ramesh, Founder, TrustCheckr.
Shivraj Harsha, Co-founder, TrustCheckr, warns against callers who agree to pay any price for products. “Digital scams can trick users as they may appear as legitimate by revealing a few authentic details about them in order to earn their trust and move money. If it sounds too good to be true, one should be careful about such transactions. Our score parameters can give a go-ahead or early warning signs of fraud."
TrustCheckr, a Bengaluru-based fraud data insights startup, has developed solutions to validate customers, cut fraud loss and make digital transactions safer. Particularly useful for fintech, payment, online websites, P2P transactions, dating and classified apps, these solutions leverage partnership with government websites and organisations for data sharing, website scanning and 3rd party API to run a social scanning for consumers and businesses and generate a TrustScore.
About the Company:
TrustCheckr, a Bengaluru-based fraud data insights and analytics startup, encourages people to utilise the web with increased trust through the use of its app that seeks to check website fraud data and cut out losses arising therefrom. Founded in 2018 by Adhip Ramesh, an avid technology expert and co-founded by Shivraj Harsha, a strategy enthusiast, TrustCheckr is the world's first cross industry, fraud data insights and analytics platform. Leveraging the rapidly evolving online business sector, TrustCheckr has been engaged with new age fintech firms to prevent Synthetic Identity Fraud. Passionate about analysing and identifying the deceptive streaks of the human mind with the use of web data, the company helps 100+ data partners in detecting fraud checks and preventing possible NPAs through its app.
“The common thread of digital payment frauds is phone number and email address. We check fraud signals with phone/email, validate the customer authenticity using historical fraud trends, fraud data sets, history and provide simple REST APIs with phone numbers as input, integration in less than 48 hours,” said Adhip Ramesh, Founder, TrustCheckr.
Shivraj Harsha, Co-founder, TrustCheckr, warns against callers who agree to pay any price for products. “Digital scams can trick users as they may appear as legitimate by revealing a few authentic details about them in order to earn their trust and move money. If it sounds too good to be true, one should be careful about such transactions. Our score parameters can give a go-ahead or early warning signs of fraud."
TrustCheckr, a Bengaluru-based fraud data insights startup, has developed solutions to validate customers, cut fraud loss and make digital transactions safer. Particularly useful for fintech, payment, online websites, P2P transactions, dating and classified apps, these solutions leverage partnership with government websites and organisations for data sharing, website scanning and 3rd party API to run a social scanning for consumers and businesses and generate a TrustScore.
About the Company:
TrustCheckr, a Bengaluru-based fraud data insights and analytics startup, encourages people to utilise the web with increased trust through the use of its app that seeks to check website fraud data and cut out losses arising therefrom. Founded in 2018 by Adhip Ramesh, an avid technology expert and co-founded by Shivraj Harsha, a strategy enthusiast, TrustCheckr is the world's first cross industry, fraud data insights and analytics platform. Leveraging the rapidly evolving online business sector, TrustCheckr has been engaged with new age fintech firms to prevent Synthetic Identity Fraud. Passionate about analysing and identifying the deceptive streaks of the human mind with the use of web data, the company helps 100+ data partners in detecting fraud checks and preventing possible NPAs through its app.
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