Official data · 36 states & UTs · NCRB, I4C & RGI

Most cyber fraud complaints never become a police case.

ScamTrace India puts victims' complaints (I4C) next to the cases police actually register (NCRB), state by state. In 2023, at most 7.7 FIRs were registered for every 100 fraud complaints, from 0.69 in Delhi to 34 in Karnataka.

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What the data shows

Six findings. Each number is published by NCRB, MHA or I4C; joining them on state and year is what this project adds.

1

Official numbers partly measure police registration, not just crime

Delhi is 2nd in India for victim complaints but 21st on NCRB's FIR rate. Click a bubble to open that state.

High complaints, few FIRs (weak enforcement) Other states/UTs

Dashed lines are the medians across states. Bubble size = number of complaints. FIRs per 100 complaints is an upper bound.

All 36 states: FIRs per 100 complaints
2

The crime rate NCRB publishes, rebuilt and checked

Our all-India rate for 2024 is per lakh; NCRB publishes 7.3. Telangana and Karnataka top it partly because they register more complaints.

FIRs per lakh people, top 20 (2024)

High risk (more than 2× the median, ) Other states
All 36 states, with rank by count vs rank by rate
3

Almost nothing reaches a conviction

2023, all India. Trials take years, so these are not one group of cases.

Conviction rate by year
4

About 12 paise in every rupee is frozen in time

Money reported lost vs blocked in the fraudster's account, 2023, ₹ crore.

Reported lost Frozen in time
All 36 states
5

Registered cyber crime crossed one lakh in 2024

More than doubled in five years. Part of that may be more registration, not only more crime.

Fastest growing states, and the yearly numbers
6

Fraud is moving from the card to the phone

Share of cyber fraud cases by type, all India 2023. OTP fraud more than doubled since 2021.

2021–2023

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Speed matters: in 2023 only of the money reported lost was frozen in time.

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About the data

Everything is official, joined by this project, and checked against the published totals. No machine learning anywhere.

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Limitations

  • Late by design: NCRB publishes 1–2 years after the year ends, so 2024 is the newest.
  • Registration, not victimisation: complaints and FIRs show who reports and what police register.
  • Convictions lag: trials take years; the yearly funnel mixes old and new cases.
  • Yearly only: no monthly data exists; state money figures exist for 2023 only.
  • Karnataka files almost no cyber crime under NCRB's "Fraud" head, so fraud-only figures under-count it.
  • Population is an official projection (no census since 2011): the only estimate used.

Sources

  • Lok Sabha Q.251, 21 Jul 2026: cyber crime cases by state 2020–2024 (PDF)
  • Lok Sabha Q.452, 2 Dec 2025: cases 2019, fraud funnel 2019–2023 (PDF)
  • Lok Sabha Q.509, 6 Feb 2024: complaints and money by state, 2023 (PDF)
  • Rajya Sabha Q.1349, 11 Feb 2026: fraud by type 2021–2023 (PDF)
  • RGI Population Projections 2011–2036, Table 11 (PDF)
  • Map outlines: Apache Superset's India map (Apache 2.0)