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Dear Sir,
Approach Judicial Magistrate (If FIR Not Registered)
If no FIR is registered, you can file a petition under Section 156(3) CrPC before the Metropolitan Magistrate, requesting directions to register an FIR and investigate.

This legal step can force the police to act.

5. Call National Cyber Helpline
Call 1930 (National Cybercrime Helpline) – available 24/7.

Ask for the status using complaint ID

Sometimes the central portal holds up the process if KYC is incompl

Dear Sir,

File a fresh complaint on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal:

https://cybercrime.gov.in/

Choose "Report Other Cyber Crimes" → "Financial Fraud"

Upload all proof again.

Approach Higher Police Officials
If local police are unresponsive:

Write a letter and meet or email:

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime), Bengaluru

Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru

Include your complaint reference and explain the delay.

Dear Sir,
For various reasons the Bankers deduct the amount from your account. They have every authority to do so unless there is specific agreement between you and the Bank that they cannot deduct any amount. Please have a meeting with Bankers and try to sort out the dispute. You may not get any effective remedy in the Courts.

Dear Client,
Fake loan apps can steal your personal information and use it to apply for loans without your knowledge or consent. Once these loans are defaulted on, it will negatively impact your credit score. Some fake loan apps may be designed to steal your personal information for identity theft purposes, which can have long-term consequences for your finances and credit score. Despite raising a Cibil dispute, when these fake loans are still reflecting in your Cibil account, you can lodge an

Dear Client,
Telegram scam/fraud refers to any malicious or deceitful activity that takes place on the Telegram messaging app. The types of fraud conducted on the app can often include financial scams, phishing attempts, and other types of activity targeting users to provide their personally identifiable information (PII). Being a victim of a Telegram scam, you should report the scam online to the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal at https://www.cybercrime.gov.in or call the number 1930 to

Dear Sir,

Contact Shimoga Police Cyber Crime Cell:

Call or email the police station that has been assigned your case.

Request the name/contact of the Investigating Officer (IO).

Since you are abroad, ask to give your statement digitally (via email or video call).

Provide all evidence (payments, chats, emails, fake documents, account numbers).

Dear Sir,

You Can Submit an Online Representation – Legally Valid

Since physical travel is unreasonable, you can write a detailed representation addressed to the Visakhapatnam Cyber Crime Police Station, stating:

You are a victim of online job scam (Google Review/Prepaid Task scam).

You have already submitted all evidence via email and WhatsApp.

You are located over 1,000 km away and traveling to Visakhapatnam would cause undue hardship.

Request that your account be unfrozen remotely or

Dear Claim,
WhatsApp investment groups are not safe and risky. Scammers often use it to lure people for investment into fraudulent schemes by impersonating their identities to investors. Before any financial investment in a security and financial company, investors should check the ins and outs of that company to protect their investment from gambling. Once a cybercrime scam is reported online to NCCRP, on the instruction of the Cyber Crime Cell, the investigating team starts the routine proces

Dear Client,
Once a cybercrime scam involving suspicious or fraudulent transactions is reported online to the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal(NCCRP), on the instruction of the Cyber Crime Cell, the investigating team starts the routine process of investigation immediately and on the instruction of Cyber Cell, the Bank freezes the suspected accounts linked to fraudsters and the victim's Bank account putting a lien on it and to unfreeze a frozen bank account, you have to wait for the comple

Dear Sir,

Recovery is not guaranteed, but quick reporting increases the chances of freezing their bank accounts.

Many scams are run from overseas or via fake identities, which makes tracing harder.

You can:

File a Police FIR under IPC sections:

Section 420 – Cheating

Section 66C/66D – IT Act (identity/data fraud)

Section 406 – Criminal breach of trust

File a consumer complaint (if they posed as a job agency or service provider)

File a civil recovery suit if the fraudster’s ident