Editor, Consumer Fraud
Aditi Sharma
Aditi covers phone-based fraud in India — SIM swap, courier scams, banking impersonation and cybercrime helplines.
aditi@phonelookup.inAbout Aditi
Aditi Sharma is PhoneLookup's editor for consumer fraud. She has spent the last eight years writing about digital payments, KYC and financial-crime helplines for Indian consumers, and has interviewed cybercrime officers, bank fraud teams and victims across five Indian states. She holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Every article she publishes on PhoneLookup is fact-checked against the primary source (RBI notifications, telecom-operator KYC pages, DoT Sancharsaathi bulletins, and the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal) before it goes live.
Areas of expertise
- Indian cybercrime helplines (1930, cybercrime.gov.in)
- TRAI DND & Sancharsaathi reporting flows
- Bank & UPI fraud reversal under RBI zero-liability
- SIM-swap and telecom KYC investigations
Articles by Aditi
- You got scammed. Here is the 72-hour recovery checklist.Jul 1, 2026 · 8 min read
- Protecting elderly parents from phone scams: a family checklistJun 20, 2026 · 7 min read
- The FedEx / customs / narcotics scam: full script and how to shut it downJun 14, 2026 · 8 min read
- "Pig butchering" romance-investment scams: the 8 warning signsJun 1, 2026 · 8 min read
- Bank call scams: 7 red flags and how to verify a real bank callMay 15, 2026 · 7 min read
- How to report a fraud phone number in India (TRAI, Sancharsaathi & 1930)May 10, 2026 · 6 min read
- Someone called asking for an OTP — what to do nextMay 2, 2026 · 5 min read
- Common WhatsApp scam patterns and how to avoid themApr 22, 2026 · 6 min read
- How to identify scam calls in India (2026 guide)Apr 12, 2026 · 7 min read
The rest of the team