The Sentinel

Lost money on Venmo? Standard person-to-person payments are not covered by Purchase Protection, and a payment you sent yourself is hard to reverse. Here are the real recovery steps, your Regulation E rights, the pending-payment 'take back', and where to report.

Lost money on Cash App? Report it in-app first, and if you funded the payment with a linked card you may be able to dispute it with your card issuer. Your Regulation E rights for unauthorised charges, the authorised-payment gap, and a warning about fake Cash App support numbers.

Lost money on Zelle? Whether you can get it back hinges on one thing: was the transfer unauthorised (someone else moved your money) or authorised (you were tricked into sending it). The recovery steps, your Regulation E rights, the narrow imposter-scam reimbursement, and where to report.

India's coordinated cyber-fraud response scaled sharply in 2025 - the I4C-run 1930 system saved over Rs 7,130 crore for citizens and blocked Rs 8,031 crore in fraudulent transfers.

Singapore's scam losses fell 17.9% in 2025 and India's also dipped, while US losses hit a record $20.9B. The common thread in the curve-benders: real-time freeze power.

Across the US, India and Singapore, one scam type tops every loss chart in 2025: investment fraud - increasingly powered by AI-generated personas and fake trading apps.

The UIDAI is phasing out the legacy mAadhaar application as it transitions users to a new, updated mobile app infrastructure for Aadhaar-related services.

A practical guide for Texas victims of online fraud and scams: freeze the payment at your bank, file with the FBI's IC3 and the FTC, add a Texas Attorney General consumer complaint and a local police report, and use the federal rules (EFTA/Reg E and FCBA) that decide whether your money comes back.

A step-by-step guide for Pennsylvania residents who have lost money to online fraud: where to report (federal IC3 and FTC plus the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection and state or local police), how recovery actually works, and what you need to act fast.

A practical, Ohio-specific guide to reporting online fraud and scams: file with the federal IC3 and FTC, lodge a consumer complaint with the Ohio Attorney General (800-282-0515), notify local police, and act fast with your bank to maximize your chance of recovery.

A step-by-step guide for North Carolina residents who have lost money to online fraud, scams, or identity theft. Covers the federal IC3 and FTC reports, the North Carolina Department of Justice consumer complaint, your local police and the State Bureau of Investigation, and the bank rules that decide whether you get your money back.

If you have been scammed or hacked in New York, here is exactly where to report it and how to try to recover your money: federal IC3 and FTC complaints, the New York Attorney General's consumer fraud complaint, the NY Department of Financial Services, and your local police or NYPD. Includes the bank rules that decide whether you get refunded.