Certificate Course in Deepfakes and AI Scams: Protecting Yourself and Your Family

A phone call in your grandson’s voice, crying for bail money. A “CBI officer” on a video call saying you are under digital arrest. A famous actor in a news clip recommending a trading app. A morphed photo of your daughter with a demand for money. Today’s scams use fake voices, fake faces and perfectly written messages, and they fool careful, educated people every day. This course teaches ordinary families and senior citizens, in plain language, how these scams work, how to check before trusting a voice or video, what the law says, how to get fake content removed within hours, and exactly what to do in the first hour after being cheated.

What you will learn

• What deepfakes, voice clones and machine-written messages are, and what scammers need to make them
• The main patterns: cloned voices of children and relatives, fake officials and digital arrest, AI-written phishing, fake celebrity investment ads, AI romance and sextortion with morphed images
• Simple verification habits: Stop, Check, Call, the family code word and calling back on a known number
• How to check official channels: “.bank.in” bank websites, the “1600” call series, SEBI’s “@valid” UPI IDs and SEBI Check, and Chakshu on Sanchar Saathi
• The offences under the IT Act (ss.66C, 66D, 66E, 67, 67A) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (cheating, personation, personating a public servant, extortion, defamation)
• The IT Rules as amended from 20 February 2026: synthetic content labelling and the 2-hour, 3-hour and 7-day timelines
• How to get fake content removed: Grievance Officer, Grievance Appellate Committee, cybercrime.gov.in, 1930, StopNCII and Take It Down
• The first hour after a fraud, RBI liability rules now and from 1 January 2027, the RBI Ombudsman, protecting children and seniors, and a family safety plan with model complaint formats

Who this course is for

Parents, grandparents, homemakers, students, small shopkeepers and working people who use a smartphone, WhatsApp and UPI, and especially senior citizens and the grown-up children who worry about them. No legal or technical background is needed. It complements Lexfolio’s Cyber Fraud Safety for Families and Senior Citizens course by focusing on deception that uses fake voices, faces and machine-written messages.

How the course works

5 modules, 15 lessons, about 4 to 5 hours, with a quiz of 5 questions after each module. Every lesson uses real-life situations from Indian cities and ends with key takeaways. The last lesson gives you a family safety plan, a printable before, during and after checklist, and model complaints to a bank, a platform’s Grievance Officer, the police and the Grievance Appellate Committee, with placeholders to fill in.

How the certificate works

• A final test of 30 multiple-choice questions, mostly real-life scenarios, with a 45-minute time limit
• Pass mark 60%; you can retry if you do not pass
• On passing, you receive a Lexfolio certificate with a unique ID that anyone can verify online at lexfolio.in/verify-certificate/
• It is a certificate of completion from Lexfolio, not a degree, diploma or professional qualification

This course is for education and general information, not legal advice for a specific case. Law as on 31 October 2026. For a specific situation, consult a lawyer or your District Legal Services Authority (NALSA helpline 15100).

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