Introducing: FraudRisk.net

Today I’m honored to share a milestone we’ve been quietly building at Kncok. Our new platform, FraudRisk.net, is now live — a first-of-its-kind real-time risk intelligence system for financial crime in India. This isn’t a marketing pitch; it’s something our team and I believe deeply in, born out of years of seeing how fraud and scams hurt ordinary people and businesses. We built FraudRisk.net because the threat is urgent, and too often the signals arrive too late to help.

With India’s digital economy booming, the scale of the problem is stark. In 2024, losses to cyber fraud jumped to an astounding ₹22,845 crore – a 206% increase from the year before. And in early 2025, data shows nearly ₹19,813 crore already lost, with over 2.17 million fraud complaints filed. These aren’t just numbers – they represent families and businesses being defrauded. Every ₹1,000 crore lost means real hardship for someone. These staggering figures drove us to act; we realized we could not stand by as these frauds continued unchecked.

At Kncok, we truly believe in “a safer, more transparent digital economy.”

FraudRisk.net is a direct extension of that vision. We built it to give companies and citizens the ability to anticipate fraud threats and prevent losses. As our team likes to say, we want to empower people to “detect smarter, act faster, and prevent better.” FraudRisk.net takes that commitment seriously: it combines agile technology and expert research to turn warning signals into actionable intelligence.

What Makes FraudRisk.net Unique

FraudRisk.net is not a static report or generic watchlist. It is an active, interactive platform tailored to India’s landscape. That means multi-lingual coverage (capturing scams in regional languages), focus on relevant verticals (like lending apps or online investment schemes), and even community-reported tips from users. Our approach marries data-driven analytics with expert knowledge: machine-learning models sift through millions of data points – from news articles and social media posts to consumer complaint databases – to spot emerging fraud networks. Meanwhile, our analysts verify and explain the findings, so you get trusted intelligence, not noise.

FraudRisk.net’s core features include:

• Real-time tracking: Continuous monitoring of India’s digital footprint (news, social media, complaint portals, emerging apps, etc.) to detect new fraud signals as they happen.

• Interactive dashboards: Visual maps and charts that show where different scams are spiking or spreading across regions and industries.

• Rapid alerts & briefs: Whenever a new threat emerges, subscribers receive concise reports on what’s happening, where, and how it works (including the scam’s modus operandi).

• Expert analysis: Our research team investigates each alert and adds context – explaining the tactics used, the entities involved, and how people and institutions can protect themselves. You get verified intelligence, not raw data.

• Collaboration tools: Users can report suspicious incidents through the platform. This crowdsourced information helps flag threats faster and lets organizations share insights securely.

  
  

We’ve put these pieces together so you aren’t just chasing yesterday’s headlines. Think of FraudRisk.net as a digital watchtower: it constantly scans hundreds of sources to flag suspicious activity in real time. The moment a pattern is detected, the platform alerts subscribers and explains what’s going on. In the world of fraud, even an hour can make a difference – and that speed and context is what sets FraudRisk.net apart.

How It Helps Institutions and Users

FraudRisk.net is built for anyone fighting fraud: banks, fintechs, e-commerce companies, payment networks, regulators, law enforcement, consumer groups, and even individual citizens. It gives all of them a unified view of the threat landscape that no single organization has on its own. For example, a bank’s fraud-monitoring team might get an alert that hundreds of their customers are being targeted by the same fake loan app scheme – even before any money has been lost. They can then immediately tighten fraud filters or warn those customers directly.

Our goal is to turn intelligence into action. You don’t get another dry report to sift through – you get a clear, concise alert when it matters. This means safer onboarding (for example, we might flag a phone number or email with a risky history) and more targeted transaction monitoring. In essence, FraudRisk.net acts like extra eyes and experts on your team. It reveals the modus operandi of current scams so your security teams know exactly what to look for and how to stop them.

For small businesses and everyday users, FraudRisk.net also empowers awareness. Anyone can visit the site and see the latest alerts and insights. We want even end-users to recognize a threat before they fall for it. By democratizing this intelligence, we hope to level the playing field: both big players and small can all benefit.

Our Conviction and Next Steps

We launched FraudRisk.net with a sense of urgency and humility. Fighting fraud is a team sport – the more we share, the stronger we all are. This platform matters because it gives voice to early warnings that often go unheard. By bringing everything into one place – government alerts, citizen reports, media stories, and more – we make every stakeholder stronger. After all, fraud on one dime affects us all, so sharing intelligence is not just smart, it’s essential.

And this is only the beginning. We will continue expanding FraudRisk.net by adding new data sources (e.g., insider threat channels and sector-specific feeds), improving our analytics, and refining alerts based on feedback. Our vision hasn’t changed – to empower a safer digital world – but now we have a powerful new tool to help.

I invite you to visit FraudRisk.net, explore the system, and let us know what you think. We’re already working on more features and updates, and we welcome your ideas or data contributions.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Together, we will make fraud harder to pull off and easier to stop.

— Shobhit Sharma, Founder & CEO, Kncok