NEW DELHI: Around 6.59 million cyber fraud complaints involving a total amount of Rs 55,659 crore have been reported by citizens through the National Cyber ​​Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) and the Citizens Financial Cyber ​​Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS) of the India Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Center (I4C) in the last five years, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs.More than 2.4 million complaints of cyber fraud were reported in 2025, compared with 1.92 million in 2024, 1.31 million in 2023, 6.90 million in 2022 and 2.60 million in 2021, Junior Home Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The annual cyber fraud amount reported by NCRP and CFCFRMS in 2021 has increased exponentially from Rs 551 crore to Rs 22,495 crore in 2025, although the latter was slightly lower than the Rs 22,848 crore reported in 2024.Kumar said the CFCFRMS prevented more than Rs 8,189 crore from being stolen by fraudsters through actions taken on 2.36 million complaints.
