Deepa Shenoy

Deepa Shenoy is the Scam Awareness Editor at Cyber Kannadigas. A consumer-affairs journalist based in Mangaluru, she has reported on financial fraud and cybercrime across coastal Karnataka for more than nine years, and has interviewed dozens of scam victims and cybercrime investigators. Deepa specialises in the social-engineering side of fraud — how a calm "bank officer" voice, a fake KYC-expiry SMS, or an urgent "wrong UPI transfer" message manipulates ordinary people into handing over OTPs and money. Her alerts are written within 24 hours of a new Karnataka scam pattern emerging, always confirmed against police press releases and the national cybercrime portal. Every scam article she edits surfaces the cyber-crime helpline 1930 and the steps a victim must take in the first hour.