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About this tool
Follow a calm, official-guidance checklist and prepare a local evidence-preservation pack for a suspected digital-arrest incident without uploads, calls, or payments.
The Digital Arrest Emergency Assistant walks someone caught in a suspected "digital arrest" call through a seven-step immediate checklist — pause, do not pay, do not share access, leave the call, verify independently, preserve originals, prepare a report — and then collects the incident details into a plain-text notes file you download locally. It exists because Indian law has no concept of a digital arrest: official I4C and PMO guidance states that investigative agencies do not conduct enquiries by phone or video call and do not demand money that way. The tool places no calls, makes no payments, uploads nothing, and does not submit a report on your behalf.
Open Digital Arrest Emergency Assistant on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Work the Do these first checklist: do not pay, do not share access or OTPs, leave the call, verify independently.
Fill the incident fields for the agency claimed, the demand and the transfer status, and mark which of the eight evidence types you hold.
Press Download local notes to save digital-arrest-incident-notes-YYYY-MM-DD.txt, then report at cybercrime.gov.in yourself.
Seven steps in the sequence that matters — stop the payment and the access first, verify and report after.
Eight evidence types are tracked as available or not marked, with the reminder to keep originals unedited rather than replacing them with screenshots.
Every claim links to a named I4C, MHA, PIB or PMO source, so the notes file carries its own references.
No. Advisory guidance from the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre states plainly that law enforcement does not arrest people digitally and that Indian law contains no such concept. Any video call ordering you to stay on camera under threat of arrest is an impersonation scam.
Do not move money and do not grant access — no transfers, payment codes, passwords, OTPs, screen sharing or remote-control apps — then leave the call. Those two steps come before verification because they are the only ones that are irreversible; you can always call an agency back on a number you looked up yourself.
Eleven: the date and time, contact channel, agency claimed, name or case reference claimed, the identifier shown on screen, the allegation, the demand, transfer status, transaction details, what information or access was shared, and a timeline. The page collects these into a downloadable .txt file alongside a manifest of eight evidence types such as screenshots, recordings, chat exports and transaction records.
No. It is an organiser for your own notes — not original evidence, not a fraud verdict, and not a substitute for filing. When you are ready, type cybercrime.gov.in into your browser yourself, and consult the police or a lawyer for anything requiring legal advice.