GetNyay Data · India cyber fraud tracker
India reported ₹22,845.73 crore in cyber-fraud losses in 2024. More than ₹206 crore was refunded across FY 2023–24 to 2025–26.
Every figure on this page comes from the Government of India’s own answers in Parliament and its press releases. We read each one out of the original document, keep them current, and show the three things the headline numbers hide.
How much does India lose to cyber fraud?
India reported ₹22,845.73 crore in cyber-fraud losses during calendar year 2024, alongside 22,68,346 reports of cyber crime of every kind on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal. Separately, and over a different period — financial years 2023–24 to 2025–26 — more than ₹56,087 crore was reported lost, more than ₹9,079 crore was marked as lien, and more than ₹206 crore was refunded. The 2024 loss and the refund total are not the same period or the same cohort of complaints, and this page never adds or divides one by the other.
Key takeaways
- Reported cyber-fraud loss grew 9.98× between 2022 and 2024 while total NCRP report volume grew 2.20× — the money is rising far faster than the report count, though the two count different populations.
- The same threshold — more than ₹8,189 cr — is called "saved" in one answer and "marked as Lien" in another. We infer they are the same measure; no document says so.
- More than ₹206 cr has been refunded against more than ₹56,087 cr reported lost — about ₹272 reported for every rupee returned, on the published lower bounds.
- More than 1,95,760 FIRs were registered over the same period as more than 65,89,201 portal complaints, 2021–2025 — ~3.0% of the complaint total, as two aggregates rather than a conversion rate.
- For 2025, only a rounded provisional national figure exists: approximately ₹22,495 crore, with 76% of it attributed to fake investment and trading scams.
- Telangana and Karnataka account for 48.3% of every cyber crime case registered in India in 2024.
What the numbers say
Four figures, each traceable to a dated government document listed at the foot of this page.
Finding 1 — the money is growing much faster than the reporting
Between 2022 and 2024 the amount reported lost to cyber fraud grew 9.98×. Over the same two years the total number of reports on the portal grew 2.20×. Reported loss is rising several times faster than report volume. That is as far as the published figures go: the loss total covers financial fraud, the report count covers cyber crime of every kind, and dividing one by the other would not give an average fraud size.
Reported loss and portal report volume, both indexed to 2022 = 100
Two series on one scale because both are index numbers · a GetNyay calculation from the published annual totals
- Amount reported lost (index, 2022 = 100)
- NCRP reports received (index, 2022 = 100)
By 2024 reported loss stood at 998 against a 2022 base of 100, while report volume stood at 220. Reported cyber-fraud loss grew much faster than total NCRP report volume. This says that reported cyber-fraud loss grew much faster than the total volume of reports on the NCRP. It does not say that individual frauds got larger. The loss figure covers financial fraud; the report count covers every kind of cyber crime reported on the portal, including offences involving no money at all. Both series are also shaped by how many people knew to report and how easy reporting had become in each year, so part of the movement in either line is reporting behaviour rather than crime.
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| Year | Amount reported lost | Loss index (2022 = 100) | NCRP reports received | Report index (2022 = 100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | not published | not published | 4,52,429 | 44 |
| 2022 | ₹2,290.24 cr | 100 | 10,29,026 | 100 |
| 2023 | ₹7,465.18 cr | 326 | 15,96,493 | 155 |
| 2024 | ₹22,845.73 cr | 998 | 22,68,346 | 220 |
Derivation: Each series is expressed as an index with 2022 = 100: the year's figure divided by the 2022 figure, times 100. Both inputs are published in Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432. The two series are shown side by side and are never divided by one another. No amount was published for 2021, so that year has no loss index.
Why this page shows no average fraud size
Because no published pair of figures supports one. The loss total counts money reported lost to financial fraud; the NCRP report count covers every kind of cyber crime reported on the portal, including offences involving no money. Dividing one by the other produces a number that is neither an average fraud nor an average victim loss, so this page shows how fast each series grew instead of dividing them.
Reports received on the portal
NCRP · reports made by the public, all types of cyber crime
2.20× in two years. This counts every kind of cyber crime reported, not only fraud, and it counts reports rather than victims. The 2021 count survives only as a footnote to the table in the same answer.
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| Year | Reports received | Increase on the year before |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4,52,429 | not published |
| 2022 | 10,29,026 | 127.44% |
| 2023 | 15,96,493 | 55.15% |
| 2024 | 22,68,346 | 42.08% |
Published in Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432, answered 2 December 2025.
Money reported lost
NCRP and CFCFRMS · ₹ crore, as reported by complainants
9.98× over the same two years — several times the rate at which the report count grew. This is money reported lost to financial fraud, a narrower thing than the report count beside it. The 2021 slot is empty because no amount for 2021 was published, not because none was lost.
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| Year | Amount reported lost |
|---|---|
| 2021 | not published |
| 2022 | ₹2,290.24 cr |
| 2023 | ₹7,465.18 cr |
| 2024 | ₹22,845.73 cr |
Published in Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432, answered 2 December 2025. The two charts above are deliberately separate: they measure different things over different populations, on scales four orders of magnitude apart. A single chart with two y-axes, or a ratio of one to the other, would invent a relationship between them.
2025 — a provisional national figure, kept apart from the series
The exact annual series above stops at 2024, which is the last year the Ministry of Home Affairs has laid before Parliament. One national figure for 2025 has been published, and it is rounded. It is reported here in full, and nothing on this page is derived from it.
“he said India recorded ₹22,495 crore in losses to cyber fraud in 2025, with 28.15 lakh complaints reported during the year. He said 76 per cent of the reported financial losses were attributed to fake investment and trading scams.”
Why it sits in its own box
These are provisional, rounded figures. They come from a Press Information Bureau release reporting a media workshop in Kohima, where they were cited by a NIELIT faculty member from his own presentation — not from a Ministry of Home Affairs statistical annexure laid before Parliament. The release does not say whether the 28.15 lakh complaints are financial-fraud complaints or incidents of every kind, so they cannot be placed on the same axis as the 2021–2024 NCRP series. Nothing is derived from them here.
The same release restates the ₹11,158 crore saved across more than 32.80 lakh complaints to 30 June 2026, which matches Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 251 exactly.
Finding 2 — money “saved” is very likely money held, not money returned
The Government reports an amount saved through its fraud reporting system. Read across two answers, the same threshold appears as the amount marked as lien — money stopped in a bank account. We infer the two describe one measure; neither document says so outright, and neither defines “saved”. Getting money back into a victim's account is a separate process, and the Government has now published how much has completed that step.
The same threshold, more than ₹8,189 cr, called two different things
“Till 31.12.2025, financial amount of more than Rs. 8,189 Crore has been saved”
“from the year 2021 to 2025 … the total amount marked as Lien is more than ₹ 8189 Crores”
Our reading, not the Government’s wording. Two answers give the same threshold figure — more than ₹8,189 crore — for the same period, one calling it the amount "saved" and the other the amount "marked as Lien". That match strongly suggests the two describe the same measure, and it is the only reading of the two documents we can see. It is our inference, not a government statement: neither answer defines "saved", and neither says the two are identical. Treat "saved" as money stopped rather than money returned unless and until a source says otherwise.GetNyay calculation
It is not a balance held today. The lien figure is cumulative over the whole period — the total ever marked, not a balance held today. Money marked as lien in 2021 may since have been released to a victim, returned to an account holder, or taken by a court. Nothing published says how much is still held, so the difference between what was marked and what was refunded is not a pot of money waiting to be claimed.
Reported, held, returned — one period, one dataset, one scale
Financial years 2023–24 to 2025–26 · ₹ crore · all three figures from the same answer
- Reported lost
- Marked as lien over the period, or refunded
Against more than ₹56,087 cr reported lost, more than ₹9,079 cr was marked as lien over the period and more than ₹206 cr was refunded — ~0.37% of the amount reported, and ~2.3% of the amount ever marked. The refunded bar is drawn at its true proportion; it is a sliver because the number is small, not because the chart is compressed. The lien bar is a cumulative total over the period, not money sitting in an account today.
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| Measure | FY 2023–24 to 2025–26 (₹ crore, "more than") | Share of amount reported |
|---|---|---|
| Amount reported lost | 56,087 | 100% |
| Amount marked as lien, cumulative over the period | 9,079 | ~16.2% |
| Amount refunded | 206 | ~0.37% |
All three amounts published together in Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 403, answered 22 July 2026, each as a "more than" figure. Derivations: ₹206 cr refunded ÷ ₹56,087 cr reported = ~0.37%; ₹206 cr ÷ ₹9,079 cr marked as lien = ~2.3%. Both inputs are published as lower bounds — the answer says "more than" each figure — so the ratio is approximate and is shown as such. It is computed from the published lower-bound values, which is the only arithmetic the source supports.
Why this distinction matters to a victim
A lien placed on the recipient’s account stops the money moving. It does not put it back. Release to the victim follows a separate process, and the machinery for it is new: the Money Restoration Module was made functional only from April 2026.[4]
When to use it. The module handles restoration of money that has already been traced and held. It is the right step once the NCRP or the Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that an amount in your case has been identified or marked as lien — typically after your 1930 or portal complaint has been acted on and your bank or the portal has told you an amount was stopped. It is not a route to claim back a reported loss in general: most money reported lost is never traced, and reporting an amount does not by itself create an amount to restore. Once the NCRP or the Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that an amount in your case has been identified or marked as lien, the module is where a restoration claim goes: mrm-ncrp.mha.gov.in. Our UPI fraud complaint guide sets out the order to do things in.
The figure that is still missing
The refund total exists nationally, but not by State. The question that produced it asked for “the State-wise number of cybercrime complaints, FIRs registered, amount involved, amount frozen and amount recovered through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) during financial year 2023-24 to financial year 2025-26”. The answer gave national totals only.[4]
So there is no way to tell from published data whether a victim in one State is more likely to see their money again than a victim in another. We ask for that breakdown in every update, and will publish it here the day it appears.
| Reading | Amount | Complaints | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| as at 2 December 2025 | ₹7,130 cr | 23.02 lakh | Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432[1] |
| to 31 December 2025 | ₹8,189 cr | 23.61 lakh | Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 553[2] |
| to 30 June 2026 | ₹11,158 cr | 32.80 lakh | Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 251[3] |
The same running counter, quoted three times in nine months. It is published without a date about as often as with one, which is why every reading here carries the date it was given. The latest is ₹11,158 cr across 32.80 lakh complaints, to 30 June 2026.
Finding 3 — police case volume is far below portal report volume, and the gap is widening
Between 2021 and 2025 the portal took more than 65,89,201 financial fraud complaints, and more than 1,95,760 FIRs were registered over the same period — ~3.0% of the complaint total, from a single answer where both numbers were given together. Set aggregate police records against aggregate portal reports year by year and the same picture appears, widening.
Cyber crime cases registered by the police, per hundred reports made on the portal
Two different Government of India datasets, compared as aggregate volumes and never charted as one series
Police-registered cases fell from 11.7 per hundred portal reports in 2021 to 4.5 in 2024. Reports to the portal grew faster than cases on police books in every one of those years. This is a comparison of two aggregate volumes: it is not a conversion rate and not a clearance rate, and no individual report is being tracked into a case.
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| Year | Reports on the portal | Cases registered by police | Police cases per 100 portal reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | not published | 50,035 | not published |
| 2021 | 4,52,429 | 52,974 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 10,29,026 | 65,893 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 15,96,493 | 86,420 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 22,68,346 | 1,01,928 | 4.5 |
Incidents: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432. Cases: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 251, Annexure I, reproducing NCRB “Crime in India”. NCRP reports and NCRB cases are two different Government of India datasets. The portal counts reports made by citizens; Crime in India counts cases registered by the police. Nothing published links the two case by case, so this compares the aggregate volume of one against the aggregate volume of the other in the same year. It is not a conversion rate, not a clearance rate, and no individual report is being tracked into a case. The NCRB count also covers offences that were never reported on the portal, and the portal count covers reports that were never crimes.
What each dataset actually counts
- NCRP reports
- Incidents registered by the public on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (cybercrime.gov.in), covering all types of cyber crime. An incident here is a report made by a citizen, not a case registered by the police.
- NCRB cases registered
- Cases registered by State and Union Territory police under cyber crimes (involving communication devices as medium or target), as compiled and published by the National Crime Records Bureau in Crime in India and tabled in Parliament. The latest published report is for 2024.
Who is losing the money
In 2025 the Government gave Parliament a breakdown of financial fraud complaints for two groups. No comparable breakdown is published for any other group, and none is published for earlier years.
| Group, 2025 | Complaints | Amount reported | Average reported per complaintGetNyay calculation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior citizens | 1,03,488 | ₹4,005.12 cr | ₹3,87,013 |
| Women | 4,63,114 | ₹3,764.51 cr | ₹81,287 |
The average amount reported per complaint is 4.8× higher in the senior-citizen rows than in the women rows — ₹3,87,013 against ₹81,287. Women filed 4.5× as many complaints; senior citizens reported more money per complaint. This is the average amount reported per complaint, not the average loss per victim. The answer counts complaints, and one person may file more than one. It is also the amount a complainant reported, not an assessed or adjudicated loss.[6]
Two cautions, both from the source itself. The answer prints the note “Data is dynamic in nature.” beneath its own table, so these figures are a snapshot of a moving count.
The two rows are not added together anywhere on this page. The answer does not say the groups are mutually exclusive, and a woman who is also a senior citizen would appear in both, so their sum would count some complaints twice and would not be a total of anything.
What enforcement has done
Cumulative totals, shown as two dated readings rather than one number, so the movement over seven months is visible. A cumulative figure quoted without a date cannot be compared to anything.
| Action | as at 2 Dec 2025 | to 30 Jun 2026 | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIM cards blocked | 11.14 lakh | 15.75 lakh | [1][7] |
| IMEIs blocked | 2.96 lakh | 5.77 lakh | [1][7] |
| Suspect identifiers received from banks | 18.43 lakh | 30.48 lakh | [1][7] |
| Layer-1 mule accounts shared | 24.67 lakh | 32.08 lakh | [1][7] |
| Transactions declined via the Suspect Registry | ₹8,031.56 cr | ₹25,698 cr | [1][7] |
| Arrests facilitated through Samanvaya and Pratibimb | 16,840 | 29,837 | [1][5] |
| Cyber investigation assistance requests | 1,05,129 | 2,33,593 | [1][5] |
| Cases assisted by the National Digital Investigation Support Centre | — | 14,064 | [5] |
| Released to States under the CCPWC scheme | — | ₹132.93 cr | [5] |
| Police, prosecutors and judicial officers trained | — | 24,600 | [5] |
A dash means no figure for that action was given in the December 2025 answer, not that the count was zero. Figures are cumulative since the relevant system began, so a row is a running total and not an annual one.
Every State and Union Territory
Cyber crime cases registered by the police in all 36 jurisdictions, 2020 to 2024, exactly as tabled in Parliament. Sort any column, or filter to your State. The latest NCRB report is for 2024.
36 of 36 jurisdictions
| Telangana | 5,024 | 10,303 | 15,297 | 18,236 | 27,230 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka | 10,741 | 8,136 | 12,556 | 21,889 | 21,993 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,097 | 8,829 | 10,117 | 10,794 | 11,073 |
| Maharashtra | 5,496 | 5,562 | 8,249 | 8,103 | 9,922 |
| Bihar | 1,512 | 1,413 | 1,621 | 4,450 | 6,380 |
| Tamil Nadu | 782 | 1,076 | 2,082 | 4,121 | 5,793 |
| Kerala | 426 | 626 | 773 | 3,295 | 2,962 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,899 | 1,875 | 2,341 | 2,341 | 2,528 |
| Odisha | 1,931 | 2,037 | 1,983 | 2,348 | 2,501 |
| Haryana | 656 | 622 | 681 | 751 | 1,815 |
| Gujarat | 1,283 | 1,536 | 1,417 | 1,995 | 1,592 |
| Rajasthan | 1,354 | 1,504 | 1,833 | 2,435 | 1,527 |
| Jharkhand | 1,204 | 953 | 967 | 1,079 | 1,423 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 699 | 589 | 826 | 685 | 1,081 |
| Punjab | 378 | 551 | 697 | 511 | 888 |
| Chhattisgarh | 297 | 352 | 439 | 473 | 660 |
| Uttarakhand | 243 | 718 | 559 | 494 | 543 |
| Assam | 3,530 | 4,846 | 1,733 | 909 | 408 |
| DelhiUT | 168 | 356 | 685 | 407 | 404 |
| West Bengal | 712 | 513 | 401 | 309 | 282 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 98 | 70 | 77 | 127 | 148 |
| PuducherryUT | 10 | 0 | 64 | 147 | 142 |
| ChandigarhUT | 17 | 15 | 27 | 23 | 116 |
| Jammu & KashmirUT | 120 | 154 | 173 | 185 | 114 |
| Meghalaya | 142 | 107 | 75 | 64 | 97 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 30 | 47 | 14 | 24 | 78 |
| Goa | 40 | 36 | 90 | 86 | 77 |
| Mizoram | 13 | 30 | 1 | 31 | 50 |
| Tripura | 34 | 24 | 30 | 36 | 33 |
| A&N IslandsUT | 5 | 8 | 28 | 47 | 28 |
| Sikkim | 0 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 15 |
| Nagaland | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| D&N Haveli and Daman & DiuUT | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Manipur | 79 | 67 | 18 | 3 | 5 |
| LadakhUT | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| LakshadweepUT | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total states | 49,708 | 52,430 | 64,907 | 85,603 | 1,01,118 |
| Total union territories | 327 | 544 | 986 | 817 | 810 |
| Total all India | 50,035 | 52,974 | 65,893 | 86,420 | 1,01,928 |
Telangana recorded 27,230 cases in 2024 and Karnataka 21,993. Between them that is 48.3% of every cyber crime case registered in the country. One jurisdiction, Lakshadweep, registered none at all.[3]
Read this table carefully. These are cases registered by police and compiled by the NCRB, so a low figure can mean either little crime or little registration. Registration practice differs sharply between jurisdictions, which is why this table is published as it stands rather than turned into a per-capita ranking.
The same national total, broken down by crime head
| Crime head | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampering computer source documents | 338 | 55 | 65 | 71 | 162 |
| Computer related offences | 21,926 | 19,915 | 23,894 | 35,329 | 36,920 |
| Cyber terrorism | 26 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 18 |
| Publication or transmission of obscene or sexually explicit material | 6,308 | 6,598 | 6,896 | 7,893 | 6,990 |
| Interception, monitoring or decryption of information | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Unauthorised access to a protected computer system | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Breach of confidentiality and privacy | — | — | — | — | 37 |
| Publication of electronic signatures for fraudulent purposes | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Abetment to commit offences | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Attempt to commit offences | 18 | 5 | 18 | 11 | 14 |
| Other sections of the IT Act | 1,017 | 827 | 1,017 | 920 | 718 |
| Abetment of suicide (online) | 10 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 12 |
| Cyber stalking or bullying of women and children | 872 | 1,176 | 1,471 | 1,305 | 1,240 |
| Sexual intercourse by deceitful means | — | — | — | — | 99 |
| Organised cyber crimes | — | — | — | — | 60 |
| Publishing false information jeopardising sovereignty, unity, integrity or security | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Data theft | 98 | 170 | 97 | 113 | 88 |
| Fraud | 10,395 | 14,007 | 17,470 | 19,466 | 29,758 |
| Cheating | 4,480 | 6,343 | 10,509 | 16,943 | 19,296 |
| Forgery | 582 | 198 | 224 | 444 | 702 |
| Defamation or morphing | 51 | 31 | 61 | 36 | 28 |
| Fake profile | 149 | 123 | 157 | 225 | 266 |
| Counterfeiting | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Cyber blackmailing or threatening | 303 | 689 | 696 | 689 | 601 |
| Fake news on social media | 578 | 179 | 230 | 209 | 483 |
| Other offences | 2,674 | 2,456 | 2,857 | 2,389 | 4,109 |
| Gambling Act (online gambling) | 63 | 27 | 37 | 87 | 37 |
| Lotteries Act (online lotteries) | 26 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Copyright Act | 49 | 32 | 27 | 23 | 30 |
| Trade Marks Act | 5 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 |
| Other SLL crimes | 48 | 99 | 103 | 223 | 236 |
| Total offences under the IT Act | 29,643 | 27,427 | 31,908 | 44,237 | 44,872 |
| Total offences under the IPC and BNS | 20,201 | 25,384 | 33,798 | 41,849 | 56,747 |
| Total offences under special and local laws | 191 | 163 | 187 | 334 | 309 |
| Total cyber crimes | 50,035 | 52,974 | 65,893 | 86,420 | 1,01,928 |
Download this crime-head table as CSV. A dash means the head did not exist in that year’s classification. Fraud and Cheating are separate heads and are not added together here, because the source does not add them. The Fraud head alone went from 10,395 cases in 2020 to 29,758 in 2024.[3]
The full dataset
Every annual figure, with the years that have none marked as such. Copy it, chart it, check it against the sources listed below.
Every CSV carries raw, ungrouped numbers plus, for each value, the unit it is measured in, the period it covers, what is being counted, whether the figure is exact, a published threshold, provisional or a GetNyay derivation, and the document it came from with its URL. A row lifted into another spreadsheet still says what it is.
| Year | NCRP reports received | Amount reported lost (₹ crore) | Cyber crime cases registered by police (NCRB) | Police cases per 100 portal reportsGetNyay calculation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | not published | not published | 50,035 | not published |
| 2021 | 4,52,429 | not published | 52,974 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 10,29,026 | 2,290.24 | 65,893 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 15,96,493 | 7,465.18 | 86,420 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 22,68,346 | 22,845.73 | 1,01,928 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | ~28.15 lakh (provisional) | ~22,495 (provisional) | not published | not published |
What we deliberately did not calculate
- Why does the annual series stop at 2024 when 2025 figures exist?
- The 2025 figures published so far are rounded and provisional — approximately ₹22,495 crore and 28.15 lakh complaints, cited at a Press Information Bureau media workshop rather than tabled as a Ministry of Home Affairs statistical annexure. They are published on this page in their own block, with the release linked. They are kept out of the annual series because the release does not define what the 28.15 lakh counts, so it cannot be placed on the same axis as the exact 2021–2024 figures, and because nothing exact enough to derive from has yet been laid before Parliament.
- Why is no average fraud size or average loss per victim shown?
- Because no published pair of figures supports one. The loss total counts money reported lost to financial fraud; the NCRP report count covers every kind of cyber crime reported on the portal, including offences involving no money. Dividing one by the other produces a number that is neither an average fraud nor an average victim loss, so this page shows how fast each series grew instead of dividing them.
- Why is there no loss figure for 2021?
- The 2021 incident count survives only as a footnote to the table in Lok Sabha Q432. No amount lost for 2021 appears in any source read for this page.
- Why is there no State-wise figure for money frozen or refunded?
- It was asked for in Parliament and not supplied. Rajya Sabha Q403 asked for complaints, FIRs, amount involved, amount frozen and amount recovered State-wise; the answer gave national totals only.
- Why is there no per-capita or per-internet-user ranking of States?
- Cases registered measures police registration as much as crime. Dividing a registration figure by population produces a rate that reads as a crime rate and is not one.
If you are here because it happened to you
Call 1930 or report at cybercrime.gov.in first, today. Everything in the lien column above depends on the money still being traceable, so the hours matter more than the paperwork.
Method
Where the figures come from
Government of India sources only — answers given in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and Press Information Bureau releases. Every figure on this page was read out of the original PDF or release, not from a news report of it. Where a figure was available only in a news report it was left off the page and recorded in the verification log instead. There are 8 source documents, each linked in full below.
What we calculate, and what we quote
A figure is either published or derived, and the page says which. Derived figures on this page are the growth index, the FIRs-per-hundred-complaints comparison, the refund ratios and the police-cases-per-hundred-portal-reports comparison. Each one names its inputs where it appears, so anyone can reproduce it from the published totals. We do not estimate, project, round up or fill a gap: a year with no published figure prints "not published".
Ratios built on "more than" figures
The cumulative money answers publish every figure as a threshold — "more than ₹ 55050 Crores", "more than 195760" FIRs. Both inputs are published as lower bounds — the answer says "more than" each figure — so the ratio is approximate and is shown as such. It is computed from the published lower-bound values, which is the only arithmetic the source supports. Every such ratio on this page is printed with a tilde, and none is given to a precision its inputs cannot carry.
Datasets that count different things
Two national datasets appear here. The NCRP counts reports made by the public; NCRB "Crime in India" counts cases registered by the police. Nothing published links the two case by case, so where they are set side by side it is a comparison of aggregate volumes, never a conversion or clearance rate, and they are never charted as one series or added together. The same caution applies to the two money windows: one runs on calendar years and the other on financial years, and neither is carried into the other. Nor is a money figure ever divided by a report count from a wider population — that is why this page shows no average fraud size.
How often this changes
Figures are refreshed after each session of Parliament, and the update date at the top of the page moves only when a figure does. The next scheduled revision is after the winter session of Parliament, December 2026.
Corrections
If a figure here does not match the document it cites, write to team@getnyay.in. We will check it against the source, correct it, and record the correction on this page with the date. That log is part of the page, not a separate archive.
Corrections log
- 4 September 2026 — Removed the "average loss per incident" figure and the chart built on it. Its numerator was money reported lost to financial fraud and its denominator was every kind of report on the NCRP, so it was neither an average fraud nor an average victim loss. The claim that individual frauds had grown larger went with it. In its place the page shows reported loss and report volume as two index series on one scale, and states only that reported loss grew much faster than report volume, with the reporting and mix caveats attached.
- 4 September 2026 — Added Press release, Release ID 2301973 of 21 August 2026, which reports approximately ₹22,495 crore lost and 28.15 lakh complaints in 2025. The page previously said no national 2025 figure had been published; that statement was wrong and has been removed. The figures are published in their own block as rounded and provisional, and nothing is derived from them.
- 4 September 2026 — Rewrote the headline and quick answer so the calendar-2024 loss figure is not presented as the same period or cohort as refunds across the financial years 2023–24 to 2025–26.
- 4 September 2026 — Every ratio built on figures the answers publish as "more than" is now shown as approximate — ~0.37%, ~2.3%, ~3.0% and about ₹272 reported per ₹1 refunded — with a note that it is computed from published lower bounds.
- 4 September 2026 — The equivalence between the amount "saved" and the amount "marked as Lien" is now labelled an inference rather than a fact: the matching thresholds strongly suggest one measure, but no document defines "saved" or says the two are identical. The page also no longer implies the cumulative lien total is a stock of money still held or still claimable.
- 4 September 2026 — Renamed the FIR finding and the NCRB comparison. Neither is described as a conversion rate, and the page no longer says a complaint "becomes" an FIR: both compare aggregate period totals from datasets that are not linked case by case.
- 4 September 2026 — Removed the row summing women and senior-citizen complaints, which double-counted anyone in both groups. The per-complaint column is now described as the average amount reported per complaint, not per victim or per person.
- 4 September 2026 — Clarified who the Money Restoration Module is for: it is the step to take once the NCRP or the Ministry of Home Affairs confirms an amount in your case has been identified or marked as lien, not a route to claim back a reported loss in general.
- 4 September 2026 — Rebuilt the CSV exports with raw ungrouped numbers and, for every value, its unit, reporting period, basis, qualification and source document with URL. Added a crime-head CSV, declared as a third Dataset distribution.
Who compiled this
Compiled and checked by Deepak Middha, a Chartered Accountant with 18 years in the hedge fund and alternative-investment industry, who reads the primary document behind every regulatory figure published on GetNyay. He is not a lawyer and this page is not legal advice. Our editorial policy sets out how figures are sourced and corrected.
Questions about these figures
The things reporters and readers ask most often, answered against the same sources.
How much did Indians lose to cyber fraud in 2024?
₹22,845.73 cr was reported lost across 22,68,346 incidents registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal during 2024. The figure was given to the Lok Sabha on 2 December 2025 in answer to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432. It is the amount reported by complainants, not an assessed or adjudicated loss.
Does the "amount saved" figure mean victims got their money back?
Almost certainly not. One answer calls more than ₹8,189 cr the amount "saved"; another gives the same threshold for the same period as the amount "marked as Lien" — money stopped in an account, not money returned. Reading them as the same measure is our inference, since neither document defines "saved". The Government has separately published the amount actually refunded: more than ₹206 cr across financial years 2023–24 to 2025–26, against more than ₹56,087 cr reported lost in the same period.
How many FIRs are registered against cyber fraud complaints?
More than 1,95,760 FIRs were registered over the same period as more than 65,89,201 financial fraud complaints on the NCRP, 2021 to 2025 — ~3.0% of the complaint total. Both figures come from Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 251 of 21 July 2026. They are period aggregates: nothing published links a particular complaint to a particular FIR, so this is not a rate at which complaints turn into cases.
How much did India lose to cyber fraud in 2025?
Approximately ₹22,495 crore, across about 28.15 lakh complaints, with 76 per cent of the reported loss attributed to fake investment and trading scams. Those figures come from Press release, Release ID 2301973 of 21 August 2026, a release reporting a media workshop rather than a statistical annexure laid before Parliament. They are rounded and provisional, and this page derives nothing from them.
Which state records the most cyber crime cases in India?
Telangana, with 27,230 cases registered in 2024, followed by Karnataka with 21,993. Between them those two account for 48.3% of every cyber crime case registered in the country that year. That reflects police registration practice as much as underlying crime, which is why this page publishes the table rather than a ranking.
Why does the annual series stop at 2024?
The 2025 figures published so far are rounded and provisional — approximately ₹22,495 crore and 28.15 lakh complaints, cited at a Press Information Bureau media workshop rather than tabled as a Ministry of Home Affairs statistical annexure. They are published on this page in their own block, with the release linked. They are kept out of the annual series because the release does not define what the 28.15 lakh counts, so it cannot be placed on the same axis as the exact 2021–2024 figures, and because nothing exact enough to derive from has yet been laid before Parliament.
Can I reuse these figures and charts in an article?
Yes. The compilation, the derived figures and the charts are published under CC BY 4.0 — reuse any of them with credit and a link to /data/cyber-fraud. The underlying figures are Government of India material and each is linked to the original document it came from. A ready-made citation line and all three CSV files are on this page, and press queries to team@getnyay.in get a same-day reply.
What should I do if I have already lost money to cyber fraud?
Call 1930 or report at cybercrime.gov.in straight away — the lien machinery behind the figures above only works while the money is still traceable, so hours matter more than paperwork. Write to your bank the same day, and keep the acknowledgement number the portal gives you. Our guides on filing a UPI fraud complaint and on escalating to the RBI Ombudsman set out what to send and in what order.
Sources
Every document behind a figure on this page, linked to the original. Nothing here is sourced from a news report.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 432 — “Cases of Cybercrime”, answered 2 December 2025.
NCRP incidents 2021–2024 and the year-on-year increases; amounts lost 2022–2024; amount saved and the complaint count behind it; SIM cards and IMEIs blocked; suspect identifiers and mule accounts; Suspect Registry declined transactions; arrests; cyber investigation assistance requests.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 553 — “Prevention of Cyber Financial Fraud”, answered 4 February 2026.
Amount saved to 31 December 2025 and the complaints behind it; the date of the NCRP–CFCFRMS Standard Operating Procedure; the State and Union Territory table of cases registered under the Fraud head of cyber crime, 2021–2023.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 251 — “National Cyber Crime Data”, answered 21 July 2026.
Annexure I — State and Union Territory-wise cyber crime cases registered, 2020–2024, all 36 jurisdictions. Annexure II — the same total broken down by crime head. Amount saved to 30 June 2026. Financial fraud complaints, amount reported, amount marked as lien and FIRs registered, 2021 to 2025.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 403 — “National Cybercrime Response Mechanism”, answered 22 July 2026.
Financial years 2023–24 to 2025–26: cyber fraud complaints, FIRs registered, amount reported, amount marked as lien, and the amount refunded. The date from which the Money Restoration Module became functional.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 398 — “Rising Cybercrime and Cross-Border Digital Threats”, answered 22 July 2026.
Arrests and cyber investigation assistance requests to 30 June 2026; National Digital Investigation Support Centre caseload; funds released under the CCPWC scheme and personnel trained.
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Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1994 — “Cyber Fraud on Women and Senior Citizens”, answered 5 August 2026.
Financial fraud complaints on the NCRP during 2025 by senior citizens and by women, with the amount reported by each group.
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Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, Press release, PRID 2290366 — “Cyber Crime Mitigation Centre”, posted 28 July 2026.
SIM cards and IMEIs blocked to 30 June 2026, suspect identifiers and Layer-1 mule accounts shared, and the value of transactions declined through the Suspect Registry. These four are not restated in any parliamentary answer of the same date, so this release is their primary source.
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Press Information Bureau, Kohima (Ministry of Information and Broadcasting), Press release, Release ID 2301973 — “Varta on Cyber Suraksha Abhiyan: Protecting Citizens from Digital Fraud Held in Kohima: India recorded 22,495 crore in losses to cyber fraud in 2025, Experts say”, posted 21 August 2026.
The only national figures for calendar 2025 published so far: approximately ₹22,495 crore lost and 28.15 lakh complaints, and 76 per cent of reported loss attributed to fake investment and trading scams. The release reports a presentation given at a PIB media workshop, so these are rounded, provisional figures rather than an MHA statistical annexure.
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The compilation, the derived figures and the charts on this page are published by GetNyay under CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures are Government of India material, taken from answers given in Parliament and from Press Information Bureau releases.
GetNyay, "India Cyber Fraud Tracker", getnyay.in/data/cyber-fraud, updated 4 September 2026. Compiled from Ministry of Home Affairs answers in Parliament and Press Information Bureau releases.Charts may be reproduced with the same credit. For a specific cut of the data, a State-level breakdown, or a comment for a story, write to team@getnyay.in — we reply to press queries the same day.
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