In today’s digital world, women and young girls are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber threats. Cybercriminals now exploit advanced tools like AI-generated deepfakes, QR code frauds, and social engineering scams to harass, manipulate, or defraud them. Through social media and messaging apps, they manipulate trust to steal data, create fake content, or commit financial fraud. These personalized attacks can cause serious emotional and psychological harm to them.

Awareness, digital literacy, and strong cybersecurity habits are essential to ensure the safety in the online space in the current digital world.

Accordingly, mentioned below are few emerging frauds, the digital practices that may lead to such frauds, some case scenarios that describe the same and possible precautionary measures that can help women and young girls protect themselves in the cyber space in current times.

1. Romance & Pig Butchering Scams

2. AI enabled picture morphing / nude picture generation

3. AI-Generated Voice Cloning

4. Astroturfing

5. Cyber Pornography

6. Cyber Grooming

7. Cyber stalking

8. Fake Friend Request Scam

Let us look into each of these scams...