The five tabs, in the order you will need them
Home is a dashboard. The two large figures at the top are community totals — how many reports have been verified, and how much money has been reported lost — and they are there for scale, not for a decision you are about to make. The thing worth using on that screen is the Check Before You Pay bar underneath them.
Search is the same lookup with more control: it carries the platform picker, so you can tell it a handle belongs to Cash App rather than to Instagram before it looks. Report is where you file. Forum is where people talk about approaches that have not become reports yet. Profile is your own account and everything attached to it.
Checking something is free, and stays free
This is the part worth being unambiguous about, because most apps in this shape are not. Looking up whether an identifier has been reported costs nothing, on every plan, without a limit. You get the verdict, the risk score and the report count whether or not you have ever paid anything.
What the paid plans buy is depth — the evidence files behind a report, and a handful of analysis screens. They do not buy a different verdict. If the answer to 'has this been reported' is what you need, the free app answers it.
Where your own things live
Everything you have created hangs off the Profile tab rather than being scattered through the app.
My Reports lists what you have filed and the status of each one. My Evidence lists the files you have uploaded and where each stands with moderation — useful, because a file you have uploaded is not public until a moderator passes it. Saved holds anything you bookmarked. Alerts holds your watch keywords. Notification settings decide what reaches your phone.
The screens that are easy to miss
Several useful things are not on a tab at all.
The AI Detector takes a suspicious message and flags the patterns in it. The Recovery Center opens step-by-step checklists for card, bank transfer, PayPal, crypto and identity theft, and it remembers which steps you have ticked. The Verified Directory lists businesses whose identity the moderation team has confirmed. Learn More collects trending alerts, the most-reported entities and recent reports, so the home feed can stay short.
What a status on a report means
You will meet a status on almost every screen, and they are not interchangeable. A report is not published the moment it is filed: every one is reviewed first, and publication is never automatic.
Verified scam means a moderator reviewed the evidence and upheld it. Disputed means somebody named in the report has contested it and the record is being re-examined. Insufficient evidence means a moderator looked and wanted more before standing behind it. Reading the status is the difference between 'somebody said this' and 'somebody checked this'.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account to check an identifier?
Which parts of the app are paid?
Why does the home screen show totals instead of my own activity?
Related guides
- How to Check a Suspicious Message or EmailPaste a suspicious message into the AI Detector to see which scam patterns it matches, what each flag means, and why a low score is not the same as an all-clear.
- How to Write a Scam Report That Actually HelpsWhat makes a report usable to somebody else: leading with identifiers, what counts as evidence, and why a second short report is worth more than one long one.
- How Scam Verification Works on This PlatformHow a submitted report becomes a status: the review stages, what each status term means, how evidence strength is judged, and the limits of all of it.
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