This site has three parts: the order in which to limit the damage, save evidence and report once you have been scammed; how to recognize fake police calls, task scams, money-mule jobs, deepfake video calls, pig butchering and fake exchange apps; and a few self-check tools that work as soon as you open them.
The first page covers what to do after a scam. Each of the other five covers one kind of scam, and the warnings, figures and cases they cite link to the original source so you can check them.
What to do first in three situations (account hijacked, approval signed, coins sent yourself), with links to reporting channels in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.
How these calls build up, set against the FBI IC3 announcement, and what to do when an older relative is on one and won't hang up.
The sequence step by step, following the FTC's alert, with the point marked where you are told to deposit before you can withdraw.
What a USDT forwarding job has you do, the sentences in a prosecuted case from Hubei, and how to get out if you have already started.
Why looking for flaws in the picture isn't enough, and how to hang up and call back on another route to check.
What you can check for yourself at each of the seven stages, plus a section on a family member who is caught in one and won't listen.
Open the one that matches what you ran into. Each card says what that page covers.
Where the look-alike address in your history comes from, how to compare addresses before sending, and which coins can still be frozen after a wrong transfer.
What an approval and a Permit2 signature each hand over, and the order for moving assets and revoking if you have already signed.
Which phone permissions a fake app can get, where to download the real one, and how to clean up after installing the wrong one.
How a freeze of USDT by its issuer works, and how that differs from someone privately charging you an "unfreezing fee" or a "recovery fee".
The tools below work as soon as you open them, with no login. What you enter is handled only in your own browser.
Answer seven questions about the situation in front of you. The page says what counts as a "yes" for each one and gives next steps based on your answers.
Paste in the address you are about to open and it is compared character by character with the official domains of the five exchanges built in. One that is off by a character or two is flagged as close but not identical.
Enter the daily, weekly or monthly return you were promised to see what it compounds to over a year and the annual rate that implies.
Three groups of settings to tick off: account security, sites and downloads, funds and wallets. Your progress is saved in your own browser. It also has four things to check when you deposit, withdraw or send coins.
Three columns: the Scam Field Guide, the guides and the tools, with every page title listed.
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