Senior citizens report over 1 lakh cyber fraud cases worth ₹4,005 crore in 2025: Home Ministry
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In rising instances of cyber crimes, senior citizens across the country have reported more than one lakh online frauds, worth ₹4,005 crore, in 2025, according to the data shared by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
In reply to a question asked by Rajya Sabha Member Sagarika Ghose, Minister of State Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that in 2025, a total of 103,488 cyber frauds targeted senior citizens, while the total frauds against women were 463,114, worth ₹3,764 crore.
Kumar said that the States and Union Territories (UTs) are primarily responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrime.
However, to supplement their efforts, the Central Government, through the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), provides States and UTs with policy guidance, technological support, capacity-building assistance, and financial resources to strengthen cybercrime management and enforcement capabilities.
For example, the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS), under I4C, was launched by the Centre in 2021 for immediate reporting of financial frauds and to stop the siphoning off of funds by fraudsters.
“The National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) has been launched as a part of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) to enable the public to report incidents pertaining to all types of cyber crimes, with a special focus on cyber crimes against women and children,” the reply mentioned.
Earlier, in a separate reply dated 28 July 2026, the Rajya Sabha was informed that India reported more than 5.83 lakh digital payment fraud cases involving ₹3,588.22 crore between FY22 and September FY26, but banks and financial institutions managed to recover only ₹238.83 crore.
The Ministry of Finance had said that credit card and internet banking frauds accounted for the majority of cases during the period. Credit card frauds stood at 2,43,849 cases involving ₹1,447.27 crore, while internet banking frauds totalled 2,42,562 cases, with the highest amount involved at ₹1,730.14 crore.
Debit and ATM card frauds were the third-largest category, with 94,991 cases involving ₹401.17 crore.
By comparison, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India's most widely used digital payment system, recorded just 457 fraud cases involving ₹2.13 crore during the period covered by the RBI data.