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Anti-scam & citizen cyber emergency portal

Thagi Alert

India's independent anti-scam portal: AI screenshot checks, a fund-freeze assistant and bots, in 8 Indian languages.

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  • AI
  • Next.js 16
  • Payload CMS
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • PWA
Thagi Alert screenshot

Overview

Thagi Alert gives citizens real-time intelligence on scams such as Digital Arrest, UPI QR fraud and APK trojans — and practical help in the first hours after being defrauded. I built it as founder and sole engineer.

How it works

  1. 1Screenshot / number
  2. 2Gemini 2.5 Flash
  3. 3Risk score + red flags
  4. 4Recovery playbook
  5. 5Freeze + legal draft
  6. 6WhatsApp / Telegram

What I built

Multimodal threat check

Gemini 2.5 Flash reads suspicious WhatsApp/SMS screenshots and links and returns a bilingual risk score, red flags, counter-measures and a recovery playbook.

Golden Hour assistant

A 180-minute countdown, bank-specific freeze shortcuts for 20+ banks, and a one-click drafter for police complaints and RBI zero-liability bank disputes.

Fraud lookup engine

A public API that checks mobile numbers, UPI handles and domains against verified citizen reports and known scam patterns.

Omnichannel bots

A 24×7 WhatsApp verification webhook (Meta Cloud API) and a Telegram alert bot fired by CMS lifecycle hooks.

8 languages, offline

Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada — with an offline-first PWA so 1930 dialling and freeze codes work without data.

Fast and shareable

Static generation across 50+ localised routes and branded OpenGraph warning cards generated with next/og.

Engineering decisions

  • Make the emergency path work offline, because victims often call from a phone with no data left.
  • Publish alerts through the CMS and fan them out to Telegram with lifecycle hooks — no manual cross-posting.

Stack

Frontend
Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4, PWA
CMS & data
Payload CMS 3.x, PostgreSQL, REST + GraphQL
AI
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (@google/genai)
Integrations
Meta WhatsApp Cloud API, Telegram Bot API, next/og

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