Indians lost around 20 billion rupees to “digital arrest” and related frauds last year alone. Despite a massive awareness campaign and concerted law-enforcement action, cases continue to pile up. These scams deftly exploit a range of interacting and reinforcing cognitive biases, accentuated by specific cultural and social predispositions. They also raise the worrying possibility of these biases being weaponized through cognitive warfare, waged by state- and non-state actors alike.
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