Online Frauds and Law

Online Frauds and Law is a contemporary and practical guide to understanding the rapidly expanding world of cyber fraud and the legal mechanisms available to address it. Written against the backdrop of India's fast-growing digital economy, this book examines how increased digital payments, online services, and post-pandemic digital dependence have led to a surge in cybercrime, including financial frauds, phishing, identity theft, and related offences.

The author analyses the evolution of legal jurisprudence on fraud, with a special focus on online and cyber frauds, and explains how law, policy and regulation are responding to these challenges. The book highlights existing legal gaps, regulatory shortcomings, and emerging trends, while also proposing ways to strengthen India's legal and institutional framework to combat online frauds more effectively. Designed as a one-stop reference, it brings together insights from multiple stakeholders, public domain information, and practical experience to offer a structured understanding of online frauds in the Indian context.

Key Features:

• Explains different types of online frauds such as financial fraud, phishing, identity theft, and digital impersonation
• Analyses Indian cyber law, criminal law, and regulatory frameworks applicable to online frauds
• Examines judicial trends and evolving legal interpretations relating to cyber and online fraud
• Identifies gaps in existing legal and regulatory systems and discusses the need for reform
• Presents policy and regulatory perspectives relevant to the digital and data economy
• Provides practical guidance on remedies, reporting mechanisms, and victim redressal
• Written in simple, accessible language for both legal and non-legal readers
• Incorporates insights from cyber law, cybercrime, and cybersecurity perspectives

This book is ideal for lawyers, judges, law students, compliance professionals, government officers, regulators, policymakers, banking and financial sector professionals, corporate stakeholders, cybersecurity practitioners, and participants in the data and digital economy.