What we're asking you for
When you submit a report, we ask for as much specific, checkable detail as you have: the platform or person's name, domains, wallet addresses, social handles, phone numbers, email addresses, or bank account details used, plus a clear description of what happened, when, and roughly how much was lost. You don't need all of these — give us what you actually have.
Screenshots, transaction records, correspondence, and any other supporting files can be attached directly on the report form. We accept images, audio, video, PDF, Word, Excel, text, and zip files, up to 20MB each and 10 files per submission.
What happens after you submit
- Submission. Your report is recorded with a "submitted" status and is not yet visible to anyone but our moderators.
- Automated triage. We check whether the entity you're reporting already matches an existing case on the database (by name and other identifying details). If it matches, your report is linked to that case; if not, a new pending case is created.
- Moderator review. A human moderator reviews the report and any evidence attached, assigns a confidence tier (see below), and decides whether to publish it.
- Right of reply. Before or after publication, the reported entity can submit a response, which — where received — is published alongside the case rather than suppressed.
- Publication. Published cases appear in the Scam Reports database and OSINTrace's search tools.
Confidence tiers
Every published case carries a confidence tier so readers can judge the strength of the evidence behind it, not just take our word for it:
Reported, but not yet reviewed or independently confirmed by a moderator.
A moderator has confirmed this is supported by more than one independent report or source.
Confirmed by a moderator as matching a known scam pattern or tactic.
What's published vs. what stays private
Published to the public case page: the reported entity's name, domains, wallet addresses, social handles, phone numbers, email addresses, bank account details used, a description of the scam, the confidence tier, and (where received) the entity's right-of-reply response.
Never published: your name, email, and phone number; your province; your exact loss amount (only a banded range is shown); any police case/CAS number, police station, or investigating officer details you provide. These are visible to OSINTrace moderators only, so an analyst can follow up with you or coordinate with an officer already handling your case.
What we won't publish
- Reports with no identifying detail at all (a name alone, with nothing to check it against)
- Personal disputes unrelated to a scam, fraud, or financial crime
- Duplicate reports of an already-published case (these get linked to the existing case instead)
- Anything that appears to be submitted in bad faith to harass rather than warn others
Disputing a published case
If you're the reported entity (or represent them) and believe a published case is inaccurate, you can submit a response — your reply is reviewed by a moderator and, where appropriate, published alongside the case.
To do this, find the specific case on the Scam Reports database and click "Dispute this listing" on that case's page. The dispute form is tied to that individual case, so there's no standalone dispute page — it always starts from the case itself.