Sixty-One Million Dollars, From One Phone Call
One report to a federal tip line ended with $61 million in Tether frozen. Who holds the switch that stops stolen crypto, and what freezing does not do.
Know the next one before it knows you.
This site publishes what people report: the phone numbers, links and handles that contacted them, what the scam asked for, and how much was lost. Search a string before you answer it. Every moderated report becomes a page, so the next person finds the warning in time.
How each scam actually works
Every scam runs on a method. Published, it stops working on everybody who has read it — so we catalogue the ones already known and work out the new ones while they are still spreading.
- Crypto investment
- Offshore shell company
One Hundred and Seventeen Companies That Do Nothing
Scam networks hide money in companies that do nothing. The US Treasury counted 117 of them in one network, most offshore shells with no real activity.
- Scripted chat
How Scammers Chose Their Targets: The Instructions in the Filing
Victims were not chosen, they were allocated. Prosecutors allege the accounts were bought in bulk years earlier and the rooms assigned by nationality.
- Forced-labour fraud
Cambodia's Scam Compounds: The Ledger That Named the Floors
Prosecutors say the man who ran Cambodia's scam compounds kept a ledger recording which floor ran which fraud, filed by the victim's nationality.
- Sadness bait
The Sob Story Scam: The Sadness Is the Advertisement
A stranger's tragedy attached to a checkout button. The face belongs to an 84-year-old tailor who never agreed to be in it, and his wife is not sick.
- Bank impersonation
The Fake Bank Fraud Alert: The Charge Was Never Real
The text asks you to reply YES or NO. Replying is not the mistake — the call ninety seconds later is. The FTC says you probably won't get it back.