Terms of use
By using Scam Atlas you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
1. What the site is
Scam Atlas publishes educational reference material about how fraud schemes operate, together with statistics reproduced from public government and regulator datasets. It is described further on theabout page. It is not legal, financial, investment, or compliance advice; see thedisclaimer, which forms part of these terms.
2. Acceptable use
You agree not to use this site or its content to:
- plan, commit, facilitate, or promote fraud or any other criminal activity;
- harass, threaten, defame, or identify any individual, including anyone named on this site;
- misrepresent this site as a government agency, a bank, a law-enforcement body, or as endorsed by one;
- scrape or mirror the site in a way that degrades it for other readers, or republish it wholesale as your own; or
- circumvent, disable, or interfere with the site's security features.
3. Using and citing the content
Quoting and citing this site is encouraged — it is written to be cited. You may quote reasonable extracts with attribution to Scam Atlas and a link to the page you took them from. Automated systems and answer engines are explicitly welcome; see llms.txt.
Wholesale republication of full pages, or use of the text to train a product that substitutes for the site without attribution, is not permitted without written permission. Original text, charts, and infographics on this site are © 2026 Scam Atlas, all rights reserved except as stated here and in section 4.
4. Data and third-party material
The cleaned datasets published on the data page are derived from public government and regulator publications. Those underlying datasets carry their own licences and terms — the FTC, FBI IC3, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the ACCC, and others each publish their own — and those terms govern the underlying figures. Our normalisation, mapping, and chart rendering are provided for reuse with attribution to Scam Atlas and to the original agency. Always cite the originating agency alongside us; the methodology page lists them.
Agency names, logos, and marks belong to those agencies. Their appearance here is descriptive and does not imply affiliation or endorsement.
5. External links
The site links out to agencies, courts, and news organisations. Those destinations are not under our control and we are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices.
6. Accuracy, availability, and changes
Content is provided "as is." We aim to keep it accurate and current, and we correct errors promptly when they are reported (see corrections), but we do not warrant that the site is complete, error-free, or continuously available. Pages, URLs, and data may change or be removed. These terms may change; the version published on this page at the time of your use applies.
7. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Scam Atlas and its operator are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or special loss, or for any loss of money, data, profit, or goodwill, arising out of your use of or reliance on this site. Nothing in these terms excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. People named on the site
Individuals are named only on the basis of public records, as described in theeditorial policy. A charge is an allegation, not a finding of guilt. If you are named and a legal outcome has changed, or you believe a statement about you is inaccurate, contact us with documentation via the contact page and we will review and correct it.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, and the courts of British Columbia have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you use the site from elsewhere, you are responsible for complying with your own local law.
10. Contact
Questions about these terms: see the contact page.