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The ScamShield Blog

What we're seeing across the India fraud landscape, and how to keep your business out of it.

Digital Arrest9 Jun 2026

"This is the CBI calling": inside India's fastest-growing scam against business owners

Fake CBI, ED and Income Tax officers are video-calling SME owners and holding them in hours-long "digital arrests". How the script works, the tell-tale signs, and what to do in the first 60 seconds.

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GSTIN Fraud2 Jun 2026

The fake GST notice that cost a Surat trader ₹14 lakh

Spoofed CBIC domains, cancelled GSTINs still issuing invoices, and lookalike supplier emails: a breakdown of the GSTIN impersonation playbook and the checks every accounts team should run.

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UPI Scams26 May 2026

Refund that drains: how fake UPI refund links beat busy finance teams

A "pending refund of ₹8,750" lands in your inbox at month-end. One tap and the flow reverses: you authorise a payment, not a refund. Anatomy of the template our engine blocks most often.

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KYC / Loan19 May 2026

"Your KYC expires today": why urgency is the scammer's strongest signal

Banks never expire your KYC by email at 6 PM on a Friday. How urgency plus payment-redirection language gives away KYC and instant-loan scams, and how to train staff to spot both.

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Supplier BEC12 May 2026

The lookalike vendor: one letter off, one invoice paid, working capital gone

Business email compromise hits Indian exporters through near-identical supplier domains registered days before the invoice arrives. Domain-age checks and trusted-vendor lists that stop it cold.

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Compliance5 May 2026

DPDP Act 2023 for SMEs: what "we never read your email" actually means

Metadata-only scanning, in-memory processing, India data residency: how we built fraud detection that's DPDP-compliant by architecture, and the questions to ask any security vendor.

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