Online Frauds and Law by Dr. Pavan Duggal – 1st Edition 2026

Description

Today is a distinctive age, where we are living in. With our reliance on the digital ecosystem and with increased digital payments being the norm of the day, it is but natural to expect that online frauds are going to be flourishing. No wonder, online frauds have phenomenally grown over a period of time. The coming of Covid-19 has provided a massive fillip to the further growth of online frauds, including online financial frauds, identity theft, phishing and other kinds of similar activities. Online paradigm is a phenomenon that affects everybody. Anybody, who is in the digital ecosystem, is a potential victim of online fraud. The moment we are not careful or the moment we lower our defences, the chances of us becoming victims of online financial frauds or online frauds become very high. The author has written this book, keeping in mind the growing phenomenon of online frauds. The author has sought to identify and discover on how the legal jurisprudence on fraud in general and cyber fraud or online fraud in particular has evolved over a period of time. This book looks at various aspects and nuances and also the legal, policy, and regulatory concerning online frauds. This book also looks at how distinctive approaches have been adopted, while dealing with online frauds and how online frauds continue to be a major thrust area as far as Indian nation is concerned. This book is being written so as to be a one stop reference primer for every digital user in India, who wants to know more about online frauds and how to protect oneself from becoming a victim of online frauds. This book has sought to collate the collective wisdom of distinctive stakeholders, as also information that is available in the public domain, so as to provide all relevant, connected and related information pertaining to online frauds in the Indian context. This book also gives a broad overview of how the legal jurisprudence on online frauds has been evolving and how there are gaps in the existing legal frameworks, and what needs to be done so as to specifically beef up existing legal frameworks to make them more topical, relevant, and effective in the fight against online frauds. This book is a complete must for every lawyer, law student, digital user, professional, government officer, corporate stakeholders and all stakeholders in the banking, financial sector as also the data economy sectors, all officials of the Government, various governmental Ministries, Departments, Agencies, Authorities, Regulators so as to inform them about different aspects and nuances pertaining to cyber fraud and online frauds. This book has been written in a layman’s language to present effective, concrete remedies for victims of online frauds and what all can be done by people so as to avoid becoming victims of online frauds. The author hopes that this book will contribute to the evolving legal jurisprudence on online frauds. Online frauds will continue to be the number one challenge in the coming times, and therefore different stakeholders in the digital and mobile ecosystem can refer to the various practical wisdoms and nuggets of knowledge that have been encapsulated in this book, so as to fight the menace of online frauds and so as to avoid becoming a victim of online frauds. This book assumes more significance as it contains the collated wisdom from the perspectives of one of the top most minds that the world today has on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime, and Cybersecurity.