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A stranger on the phone doesn't need your PIN if they can watch you type it. Screen-sharing scams are the most expensive pattern going in India right now — and one household rule shuts the whole category down.
Free diamonds, free UC, free coins — the gaming reward scam is built for kids who play. Here's the exact shape it takes, and the two rules that make it stop working.
A sticker pasted over a shop's real QR code sends your payment to a stranger. It's one of the simplest scams going — and one three-second habit shuts it down completely.
Instagram is where most Indian teens live online, and it's where most of the money scams reach them first. Here are the five patterns we're seeing in 2026, what each one is really after, and the one sentence that defuses all of them.
The four scam patterns we see most often, the conversation to have before they start, and exactly what to do if your child loses money. Written for Indian families who actually live online.
