About Exposing Scams
Exposing Scams is a searchable record of what other people have already been through, built so that the sixty seconds before you send money are enough to check.
Why we exist
Most scams do not succeed because they are sophisticated. They succeed because the person on the other end has no way to check a stranger's history in the sixty seconds before money leaves their account — and once it has left, recovery is rare and slow.
The warning almost always existed somewhere. It was sitting in a private message, a group chat, or a complaint thread nobody could search. Exposing Scams gathers that scattered knowledge into one place and makes it searchable in seconds, so a report one person files today becomes the warning somebody else reads tomorrow — before they pay, not after.
What we stand for
Check before you pay
Search any website, phone number, email, social handle, payment account or crypto wallet against thousands of community reports — before money changes hands, not after.
Evidence-first, always
Every report must include real proof — screenshots, receipts, transaction references. Reports without evidence are rejected automatically and never published.
Human moderation & right of reply
Moderators review each report before it goes public, and where feasible give the reported party a fair chance to respond and submit counter-evidence. Allegations are never presented as verdicts.
Privacy by design
Your real name stays private — only a display name of your choosing appears publicly. We never sell your personal information.
How it works
Search
Enter the identifier you're unsure about and instantly see its risk level, report count and community evidence.
Report
Been scammed? File a report with evidence in minutes and help protect the next person from the same trap.
Get alerted
Add watch keywords and get notified the moment a scammer you're tracking is reported and verified.
The rest of it
- What we don't doThe four things this platform will not do, including the one people ask about most: paying to have a report taken down.
- If a report names youHow to reply with evidence, who reviews it, and what a moderator can change about a listing.
- How verification worksWhat a submitted report goes through before it carries a status, and what each status term actually means.
- The guidesTwenty walkthroughs for checking a website, a number, a payment request or a wallet before you commit to anything.
How we're funded
Exposing Scams is free to use. Searching an identifier, seeing its risk level and filing a report cost nothing and always will — a warning that only reaches people who can afford it is not much of a warning.
The free plan is supported by ads. The paid plans — Aware, Alert and Ahead — remove those ads and open up the depth: the evidence files behind a report, watchlists of your own, and the connections between related reports. Checking an identifier is never part of that. It is free, unlimited and unmetered on every plan, including the free one. Subscriptions are the whole of our revenue. We take no money from the people who are reported, and we sell no data.
The app
Check before you send money
All of it happens in the app: the lookup, the report you file, the evidence behind somebody else’s, and the alert when an identifier you checked turns up again.
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