While the rest of us deck up our homes or offices, or organise grand ceremonies in our localities for the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya, cybercriminals have been flooding the internet with scams in the name of Lord Ram.

Officials from the Maharashtra Cyber department have, over the last several weeks, tracked a wide range of attempts to defraud citizens by exploiting their religious sentiments. The most common modus operandi observed so far is through messages accompanied by QR Codes, seeking donations for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust in Ayodhya. Citizens are being lured into paying supposed donations by scanning the QR codes and sending amounts of their choice.