What it does
Ghotala reads text for the tricks scammers reuse in India and tells you which ones it found, with its reasoning shown. That is the whole product.
A clean result is not a safety guarantee
When nothing matches, we say that nothing matched. We never say something is safe, because we cannot know that. New scripts appear every week and short messages often trip nothing at all. If money is involved and you are unsure, slow down and verify on a channel you opened yourself — a number from inside the bank’s own app, not from a message or a search result.
We do not accuse people
Ghotala describes patterns, links and domains. It does not and will not tell you that a named person, a phone number, or a UPI ID belongs to a fraudster. A signal firing on a message says something about the message, not about whoever sent it — they may have been forwarded it in good faith by someone else who was worried.
Official guidance shown alongside a verdict
Where we cite an advisory from I4C, RBI, SEBI or CERT-In, we are saying that the authority has published guidance about that tactic. We are not saying that any authority has reviewed your message, endorsed our verdict, or made any finding about anyone. No authority has seen what you checked.
Where an advisory’s title or link appears, it is the authority’s own wording in the language they published it in. Any summary or explanation around it is written by Ghotala, is not a translation of the advisory, and must not be read as the authority’s words.
Recovery guidance
The steps on the recovery page are general guidance based on how reporting works in India. They are not legal advice and they are not a promise that anything can be recovered. Ghotala cannot freeze an account, contact a bank on your behalf, file a report for you, or recover money. Anyone who contacts you offering to recover your money for a fee is running the follow-up scam.
Languages
This site is published in several Indian languages. The translations are provided so that the guidance is usable, and each language’s page states whether its safety copy has been through native-speaker review yet. Where a translation and the English differ in meaning, the English is the version written against the system as built — but nothing on this page has been reviewed by a lawyer in any language, so this is a statement about how the copy was produced, not a choice-of-language clause.
Not affiliated with anyone
Ghotala is not connected to any bank, payment provider, police force, ministry, or regulator. Brand names appear only because scammers use them.
Not financial or legal advice
Nothing on this site is investment, financial, tax or legal advice. Decisions about your money are yours, and for anything significant you should talk to someone qualified and to your own bank.
Use of the site
Free to use, as-is, with no warranty. Do not use it to harass anyone or to build a public accusation about a person — that is not what the verdicts support and not what they mean. Automated access is what the API is for; scripting the website instead may be rate limited.
If it already happened
Call 1930, India’s national cybercrime helpline, and file at cybercrime.gov.in. Do that before anything else. The window for a freeze on the receiving account is measured in hours.
Contact
hello@ghotala.wtf. For how your data is handled, see the privacy page.