Programme
Cybersecurity & Online Crime Awareness
Practical literacy on cyber fraud, online harassment, data misuse, and how to report digital offences to the right authority — without promising outcomes ACHRC cannot deliver.
Available in: English, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu
Online crime now sits beside the older forms of corruption and rights violation that ACHRC was built to address. A person who loses savings to a phishing call, whose private images are circulated without consent, or who is coerced through a forged digital document has suffered a real injury — and usually needs a clear path to the statutory desk that can act, not a lecture about technology.
The approach
We teach recognition and response, not fear. Sessions cover how common cyber frauds work in practice, which records to preserve before a device is wiped, how to use the national cybercrime reporting portals, and when a matter is a police case, a banking dispute, or a platform complaint. Abstract warnings change little; knowing what to save in the first hour changes a great deal.
What participants learn
- How to spot common financial cyber fraud, impersonation, and social-engineering patterns
- What evidence to preserve (screenshots, transaction IDs, URLs, call logs) and what not to delete
- How to report through cybercrime.gov.in and the national helpline 1930 for financial cyber fraud
- The difference between a platform takedown request, a police complaint, and a bank chargeback
- How online harassment, doxxing, and non-consensual image sharing intersect with existing criminal law
- How to raise a concern without amplifying the harm by sharing the material further
Desk support
Where someone approaches ACHRC with a cyber-related grievance, we document first, then help them identify the correct authority and prepare a clear chronology. We do not investigate offences, recover funds, compel platforms, or represent that we can freeze accounts.
What we will not do
We do not run forensic labs, access private accounts, publish allegations against named individuals, or claim any statutory cyber-policing power. Where a matter appears to disclose an offence, we explain which authority holds the mandate and how a complaint is properly made — and we say so before anyone spends hope on the wrong desk.