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Field workshop · Delivered 29 August 2026

Cyber-fraud awareness reaches a village pathsala in the Sundarbans

On 29 August 2026 our team travelled to the Bali Bazar area of Gosaba Block, deep in the Sundarban delta, and ran a free session on Information Security in Daily Life for the children of a small rural pathsala. No projector, no classroom benches — just a tarpaulin on the floor of a bamboo-and-tin hut, and two hours of talking honestly about the scam calls and fake messages that reach every village phone.

Free · on location in Gosaba Block, 29 August 2026
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What actually happened

A real session, on a mud floor in the delta

Where the roads end

Gosaba Block is river country — the last stretch is by boat. Digital payments and smartphones arrived here long before anyone explained how they get misused.

No projector, no problem

The whole session ran face to face on the floor of the pathsala — real stories, real scam messages read out loud, and questions answered on the spot.

Children as messengers

In most homes here, the child is the one who reads the SMS and taps the phone. Teach the child, and you have protected the whole household.

What was covered

Information Security in Daily Life

Not theory — the exact frauds that are actually reaching village phones, explained in plain Bengali with everyday examples.

The OTP rule

An OTP or PIN is never asked for by a real bank, a real officer or a real delivery agent. Share it with nobody — not even someone who knows your name.

Fake calls & "KYC" scams

How a caller pretending to be from the bank, the gas agency or a government scheme builds panic — and why hanging up costs you nothing.

UPI & payment safety

Why you enter a PIN to send money and never to receive it — the single misunderstanding behind most village UPI losses.

Fake links & prize messages

Lottery wins, "your account will close today", free-gift links and forwarded APK files — how to recognise them and why you never tap.

Passwords & phone locks

A screen lock, a password that isn't a birthday, and why lending an unlocked phone is lending your bank account.

If it already happened

Report within the golden hour — call 1930 or file at cybercrime.gov.in. Money frozen fast is money often recovered.

The real goal

Every child leaves as their village's first line of defence

The session doesn't end at the pathsala door. Each student went home with three things to pass on.

1

Tell your family the OTP rule

One sentence, repeated at home until everyone knows it: nobody legitimate will ever ask for your OTP.

2

Be the one who checks

Before anyone in the house taps a link or trusts a call, the child who attended checks it first.

3

Know where to report

1930 and cybercrime.gov.in — written down, saved in the phone, and shared with the neighbours.

However far your village is

Bring this free cyber-safety workshop to your village too

Call or WhatsApp us with your school's or pathsala's name and a couple of convenient dates — we'll travel to you, and it costs you nothing.

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