India, Oct. 23 -- Diwali shopping now comes with a steady stream of sale alerts, delivery updates, cashback offers, and digital payments. But not every message deserves a click. As fraudsters use more convincing language and familiar brand identities, a rushed decision can put money and personal information at risk.

Quick Heal Technologies Limited is urging consumers to verify unexpected messages and payment requests before acting. Its advice highlights a simple problem: festive scams often work by making people feel they need to act immediately.

Familiar messages can hide a scam Fraud does not always arrive in the form of a badly written email. It may appear as a social media advertisement for a fake store, a courier alert about an und...