Learning Outcomes
- Recognize common cybercrime patterns, manipulation signals, and high-impact personal risks.
- Create unique credentials, use a password manager, and enable appropriate multi-factor authentication.
- Configure essential protections for phones, computers, applications, and backups.
- Analyze suspicious messages, links, files, QR codes, calls, and AI-enabled impersonation attempts.
- Apply safer browsing, Wi-Fi, messaging, social-media, and remote-work practices.
- Minimize personal-data exposure and share identity information through controlled channels.
- Validate UPI and digital-payment requests before authorization and respond quickly to fraud.
- Contain, preserve, report, and recover from a suspected cyber incident using an ordered workflow.
Certificate : DTF AI Academy
Course Features
- Lectures 48
- Quizzes 9
- Duration 180 minutes
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 2
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
- 9 Sections
- 48 Lessons
- 180 Minutes
- Cyber Crime Awareness and the Protective Mindset
Outcome: Identify common digital risks, exposed assets, and the human decisions that reduce everyday cyber risk.
Case: A university learner uses one email address for banking, social media, cloud storage, and job applications. A single reused password exposes the entire digital life when one service is breached.
Tools: Personal asset inventory, Account map, Risk-priority worksheet
7 - Account Takeover Prevention: Passwords, Passkeys, and MFA
Outcome: Create unique account credentials, use a password manager safely, and enable appropriate multi-factor authentication.
Case: A streaming-service breach exposes a reused password. Attackers test it against email and shopping accounts, then reset the victim's banking credentials through the compromised email account.
Tools: Password manager, Account recovery review, MFA setup simulator
7 - Malware and Device Compromise Prevention
Outcome: Configure essential protections for phones and computers, manage applications safely, and maintain recoverable backups.
Case: A phone is stolen while unlocked notifications display OTPs. The device has no remote-locate capability, and cloud backup has never been tested.
Tools: Update settings, App-permission review, Backup and restore checklist
7 - Phishing, Scams, Social Engineering, and Deepfakes
Outcome: Recognize manipulation signals, verify through independent channels, and respond safely to suspicious communications.
Case: A video call appears to show a senior executive requesting an urgent transfer. The caller insists on secrecy, discourages callback verification, and provides new bank details.
Tools: Phishing inbox simulator, Verification script, Deepfake observation checklist
7- 4.1Attackers target emotion and authority
- 4.2Read messages beyond appearance
- 4.3Verify through a clean channel
- 4.4Handle links, files, QR codes, and APKs
- 4.5Recognize AI-enabled deception
- 4.6Report and learn from attempts
- 4.7Module 4 Assessment — Phishing, Scams, Social Engineering, and Deepfakes5 Minutes5 Questions
- Social Media, Messaging, Browsing, and Network Risks
Outcome: Use safer network, browser, messaging, and social-media practices in public and personal contexts.
Case: A traveller joins a Wi-Fi network named after the hotel, accepts a certificate warning, signs into email, and later discovers the network was operated by an attacker.
Tools: Browser safety checklist, Wi-Fi decision tree, Social privacy review
7 - Identity Theft, Personal Data, and Secure Sharing
Outcome: Minimize personal-data exposure, share information safely, and protect identity records throughout their lifecycle.
Case: A rental application requests Aadhaar, PAN, bank statement, salary slips, and a selfie through an unverified messaging account, with no explanation of purpose or retention.
Tools: Data-minimization worksheet, Secure-sharing checklist, Identity exposure review
7 - Financial Fraud, Digital Payments, and UPI Safety
Outcome: Authorize digital payments safely, detect common fraud patterns, and take immediate action after suspected financial fraud.
Case: A buyer claims to send money but issues a collect request. The seller enters the UPI-PIN expecting to receive funds and instead authorizes a debit.
Tools: UPI transaction simulator, Payment verification checklist, Fraud-response card
7- 7.1Understand what you authorize
- 7.2Protect PINs, OTPs, and screen access
- 7.3Verify the recipient and request
- 7.4Recognize common payment fraud
- 7.5Check records and resolve disputes
- 7.6Act immediately after fraud
- 7.7Module 7 Assessment — Financial Fraud, Digital Payments, and UPI Safety5 Minutes5 Questions
- Evidence, Reporting, Recovery, and Capstone
Outcome: Contain a suspected incident, preserve useful evidence, recover accounts and devices, and report through appropriate channels.
Case: A learner clicked a phishing link, entered an email password, approved an MFA prompt, and notices a new forwarding rule. Panic-driven deletion could destroy evidence and delay containment.
Tools: Incident triage card, Evidence capture template, Reporting decision tree
7 - Final ExaminationFinal assessment for Cyber Crime Awareness & Prevention. Passing score: 70%.1
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