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How to Export a Report for Your Bank or the Police

A bank fraud team wants a document, not a link to an app. The app will produce one — but only for a report that has actually been through review, and for a good reason.

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Only verified reports can be exported

One condition, and it is narrow: a moderator has verified the report and it is live publicly. Being the person who filed it does not substitute for that.

This is stricter than it first looks. A report that was rejected cannot be exported, and neither can one marked resolved or duplicate. The reason is that a branded PDF reads as an endorsement — and producing one for a claim the platform declined to stand behind would be handing somebody a document that implies a verdict nobody reached.

What the document contains

The report as published: what was reported, against which identifier, when, its current status, and the evidence attached to it.

What it does not contain is a legal finding. It is a record of a community-submitted report that passed moderation, and it says so. That is genuinely useful to a fraud team — it is contemporaneous, it is dated, and it shows the same identifier has been reported by other people — but it is evidence of a report, not proof of a crime.

What to send with it

The PDF is corroboration, not a case. On its own it tells your bank that a stranger filed a report about the same account; it does not tell them what happened to your money.

Send it alongside your own material: the date and exact amount, the reference number of the payment, the account or card used, and the messages that led to it. The export supports your account of events; it does not replace it.

If the report is not verified yet

Do not wait on it before contacting your bank. Time matters far more to a payment dispute than documentation does, and moderation runs on its own schedule.

Report to your bank immediately with what you have, and send the export afterwards if and when the report is verified. A fraud case is not weakened by evidence arriving in two parts.

Frequently asked questions

Why can I not export my own report?
Exports are limited to reports a moderator has verified and published. A report still under review, or one that was rejected, resolved or marked duplicate, cannot be exported — a branded document would imply a verdict that was never reached.
Is there a limit on exports?
Exports are counted against your plan's allowance, and the app shows where you stand before it builds a document.
Will my bank accept this as proof?
Treat it as corroboration rather than proof. It shows a moderated report exists against the same identifier. What happened to your own money still has to come from your records.

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