Disclaimer
If money has moved right now
Stop reading and call your bank's fraud line first — many transfers can still be recalled in the first hours. Then report it to your national agency: see where to report. Do not send more money to "recover" what you lost; that is itself a scam pattern (recovery scams).
This is not advice
Scam Atlas is educational reference material about how fraud schemes operate. It is not legal advice, financial advice, investment advice, tax advice, or compliance advice, and reading it does not create any professional relationship. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset. If you need advice about your own situation, consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction — a lawyer, a licensed financial adviser, your bank, or your national consumer-protection agency.
It is not a fraud-detection service
The "Am I being scammed?" tool is a self-guided educational questionnaire that runs entirely in your browser. It does not analyse anything you were sent, it does not check anyone's identity, it does not contact anyone, and it cannot tell you with certainty whether a specific situation is or is not a scam. A low score is not a clearance. Treat it as a prompt for the questions worth asking, not as a verdict.
Accuracy and currency
Every factual claim on this site is sourced and dated, but scams change constantly, statistics are revised, agencies restructure their reporting, contact details change, and legal proceedings move. Pages carry a last-reviewed date; a page may be out of date after that date. Loss statistics arereported losses and substantially understate real totals — see themethodology for what the numbers do and do not measure. Where this site reproduces a figure from an agency, that agency's own publication is authoritative, not this one.
People named on this site
Individuals appear here only where their involvement is a matter of public record — charged, convicted, or sanctioned in published proceedings — or where they spoke publicly on the record. A charge is an allegation. Everyone charged is presumed innocent unless and until convicted. If a legal outcome has changed, send documentation via the contact page and the page will be corrected.
External links
This site links to government agencies, courts, regulators, and news organisations. Those sites are not under our control; linking to them is not an endorsement of everything they publish, and their privacy practices are their own. Government reporting URLs and phone numbers are checked periodically but can change without notice — if a number on a report page is wrong, please tell us.
No liability
This site is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator of Scam Atlas accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on anything published here. Decisions about your own money remain yours.