TL;DR: India's National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) recorded 24,02,579 financial-fraud complaints and ₹22,495 crore in reported losses in calendar 2025, according to a Ministry of Home Affairs reply in the Rajya Sabha on February 11, 2026. Complaints are about nine times the 2021 level (2,62,846), while 2025 losses were slightly below 2024's ₹22,848 crore. Police registered 1,01,928 cyber crime cases in 2024, per NCRB.
Complaints and reported losses, 2021 to 2025
The NCRP at cybercrime.gov.in is where Indians report cyber fraud, alongside the 1930 helpline. The Ministry of Home Affairs gave the year-by-year totals below in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. These are complaints registered on the portal and amounts that complainants say they lost. They are not police cases and the amounts are not verified.
| Year | Financial-fraud complaints | Reported losses | Average per complaint (our calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2,62,846 | ₹551 crore | ₹20,963 |
| 2022 | 6,94,446 | ₹2,290 crore | ₹32,976 |
| 2023 | 13,10,357 | ₹7,465 crore | ₹56,969 |
| 2024 | 19,18,835 | ₹22,848 crore | ₹1,19,072 |
| 2025 | 24,02,579 | ₹22,495 crore | ₹93,629 |
Complaints rose every year, from 2,62,846 in 2021 to 24,02,579 in 2025. Reported losses jumped from ₹551 crore to ₹22,848 crore between 2021 and 2024, then eased by about 1.5% to ₹22,495 crore in 2025 (our calculation) even as complaints kept rising. The average reported loss per complaint therefore fell in 2025, from about ₹1.19 lakh to about ₹94,000. That is a statement about the complaints received, and the data do not say why.
Five-year totals and a data caveat
In a separate Lok Sabha reply on July 21, 2026, the ministry gave 2021 to 2025 totals of about 66 lakh (more than 65,89,201) complaints and more than ₹55,050 crore in reported losses, with 1,95,760 FIRs registered by state and Union Territory police. Adding the five yearly rows from the February reply gives 65,89,063 complaints and ₹55,649 crore. Both are official, and the replies do not explain the difference, so we cite each for what it says and do not treat the row sum as an official total.
FIRs are registered by state and UT police, outside the portal. The ministry does not publish how many complaints become FIRs. Comparing the two totals gives roughly 3 FIRs per 100 complaints (our calculation), but the complaints and FIRs are not tracked one to one, so do not read that as a conversion rate. The FIR figure counts FIRs under that reply's definition and should not be compared with NCRB's cyber crime cases below: NCRB's yearly cases for 2021 to 2024 alone sum to 3,07,215, more than the 1,95,760 FIRs for 2021 to 2025.
Police cases: NCRB cyber crime registered, 2020 to 2024
NCRB's count of cyber crime cases recorded by police roughly doubled between 2020 (50,035) and 2024 (1,01,928). It is smaller than the NCRP complaint count because it counts only cases registered by police, not every portal complaint, even though it covers all cyber crime and not only financial fraud.
| State | Cyber crime cases, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Telangana | 27,230 |
| Karnataka | 21,993 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,073 |
| Maharashtra | 9,922 |
| Bihar | 6,380 |
| Tamil Nadu | 5,793 |
| Kerala | 2,962 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,528 |
| Odisha | 2,501 |
| Haryana | 1,815 |
Telangana (27,230) and Karnataka (21,993) recorded the most cases, ahead of Uttar Pradesh (11,073) and Maharashtra (9,922). State counts depend partly on how readily police register cases, so they are not a ranking of how safe a state is.
What to do if you are a victim
Call 1930 immediately and file at National Cybercrime Reporting Portal. The earlier the report, the better the chance of freezing the money, as we explain in the golden hour and the 1930 helpline and how to file a 1930 cybercrime complaint. For UPI-specific steps see how to recover money lost to a UPI scam and how to freeze your bank account after UPI fraud, and for recent successes read how Indian police are returning frozen fraud money. See also India's 1930 helpline and UPI fraud data and RBI bank fraud data by category for related official data.
How we compiled this data
Yearly NCRP complaint and loss figures are from the Ministry of Home Affairs written reply in the Rajya Sabha on February 11, 2026 (published by PIB). Five-year totals and NCRB series are from the Lok Sabha reply of July 21, 2026. Year rows were checked against the original reply; "average per complaint" and percentage changes are our arithmetic.
Definitions: complaints are those registered on the NCRP; amounts are as reported by complainants; calendar years, 2025 to December 31, 2025. FIRs are separate and are registered by police. The sources note that totals may be revised. A Lok Sabha reply of December 2, 2025 gave 2024 losses as ₹22,845.73 crore against ₹22,848 crore in the 2026 reply; we use the later figure throughout.
State figures for 2024 were checked against the reply's table; the unit header was not visible in our read, so we label them cases recorded. We did not find an official state-wise table of NCRP losses or an official breakdown by fraud type or age, so we do not include one.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many cyber fraud complaints were filed in India in 2025?
According to a Ministry of Home Affairs reply, the NCRP registered 24,02,579 financial-fraud complaints in calendar 2025, with ₹22,495 crore reported lost.
Are NCRP complaints the same as FIRs?
No. NCRP complaints are reports on the portal. FIRs are registered separately by state and UT police. The July 2026 reply shows 1,95,760 FIRs for 2021 to 2025 against about 66 lakh complaints.
Are the reported losses verified?
No. They are amounts that complainants reported when filing, and they may be revised.
Which state has the most cyber crime cases?
In NCRB's 2024 data, Telangana recorded 27,230 cases and Karnataka 21,993. These counts reflect police registration as well as crime levels.
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Sources
- Press Information Bureau: Cybercrime Reporting and Investigation, Rajya Sabha written reply (Feb 11, 2026)
- Press Information Bureau: National Cyber Crime Data, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 251 (Jul 21, 2026)
- Ministry of Home Affairs: Cases of Cybercrime, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 432 (Dec 2, 2025)
- National Cybercrime Reporting Portal
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