Digital Safety Toolkit
Check before you click
Practical checks that run entirely on your own device. Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or transmitted — there is no server involved.
🔑 Password Strength Analyser
Measures search-space entropy and checks for the patterns attackers try first.
🔗 Suspicious URL Inspector
Structural analysis for lookalike domains, brand mismatch, punycode, shorteners and direct file downloads.
📧 Phishing & Scam Message Analyser
Scores a message against the lure patterns used in Indian and global fraud — OTP requests, remote-access instructions, urgency, advance fees and authority threats.
📊 Security Score
Two minutes, honest answers. The result is a gap list you can act on, not a grade.
📷 QR Code Safety Guide
The single rule
Scanning a QR code and entering a PIN always sends money. It can never receive money. Anyone asking you to scan a code "to get your refund" is stealing from you.
- Preview the URL before opening anything a QR resolves to
- Check the payee name on the confirmation screen before approving
- Never scan codes from e-mails, posters, parking meters or DMs to reach a login page
- Treat QR codes in printed letters claiming to be from banks or government as hostile
For merchants
- Laminate and tamper-seal your QR standee; photograph it and check daily
- Enable soundbox and SMS confirmation, and reconcile at close of business
- Train staff that a customer's "payment successful" screenshot is not proof
- Report a swapped code to your acquirer and to 1930 immediately
🎭 Deepfake Awareness Guide
Assume it can be faked
Voice cloning needs seconds of audio. Real-time video deepfakes work on calls. A familiar voice or face is no longer identity verification.
Verify by channel, not by senses
Hang up and call back on a number you already had saved. For business payments, use an out-of-band callback plus a second approver.
Set a safe word today
Agree a family phrase that never appears online. No money moves in an emergency without it — including for elderly parents and students living away.
Live-call tells (useful, not reliable)
- Ask them to turn their head fully sideways or pass a hand across the face
- Ask for a specific unpredictable action or phrase
- Listen for absent background noise and flat, consistent emotion
- Watch for lip-sync drift and shifting edges around the jaw and hair
If synthetic content of you is circulating
- Report at cybercrime.gov.in — intimate imagery must be removed within 24 hours under the IT Rules
- Submit hashes at stopncii.org to block re-uploads across participating platforms
- Preserve URLs and screenshots before requesting removal
- Tell the people it will be sent to, first — that removes the extortion leverage
- Do not pay. Call Tele-MANAS 14416 if you are in distress