Anti-Scammer Alert

Help To Stop Scammers, Help For Victims

Helping people take charge of their lives

Reporting Your Scammer

There are actually three steps involved in reporting your scammer: Identification, Reporting, and Personal Protection

Identification:

As soon as possible, even before you block your scammer, please save all communications, link addresses (if possible), and financial transactions that you have had with the scammer, in text form or better (MS Word or HTML), so that you can use them if you file a fraud claim with a bank or gift card company or police report.

In order to report your scammer effectively you need to find/record as much as you can about him/her, from your correspondence and also from his or her public IDs: the application(s) where you corresponded, the name they used in their scam, their username for each application, the location and/or any address they gave you, their Facebook URL (the link at the top left corner of your browser (https://www.facebook.com/ etc.)

Reporting

If your scammer is local to your country, report it to your local and national police. (In the U.S. this the FBI). This is especially important if you think the scammer represents an imminent physical threat. Whether or not the scammer is local, report the scam at the FBI fraud website, IC3.gov.

Additionally you can protect yourself and others immediately by using the phone or application's blocking/reporting tools.

Personal Protection

Please shut off all contact with the scammer. Block them on all social media. If the scammer is still a Friend on Facebook or other media, then Unfriend, and then Block. Each application has a mechanism for blocking a person. (If it is unclear use Google to find out how to do it.)

Especially important: please do not contact the scammer to attempt to get your money back, and please do not tell them that you are reporting them. Scammers are extremely dangerous, violent criminal psychopaths, not the nice people they have pretended to be. They have threatened victims who have pursued them, and have killed victims who have traveled to to confront them.

Protect your presence on all social media so that you are less visible. In Facebook use the Privacy Checkup and Privacy Center to limit access to your posts and friends list. Please do not respond to anyone who approaches you in any media unless you know them personally.

If you need more help, our anti-scammer team can provide it at low cost. Please see our anti-scammer services website, at https://www.anti-scammer.net.

Important Note: If you have been scammed and you need help with recovery, reporting, or personal protection, or if you know or suspect that you or a friend are being scammed and need help, we urge you to go to our information, reporting, and consulting website: https://www.anti-scammer.net.

Copyright 2023-2024 Anti-Scammer Alliance, Boston, MA.

This website was created by Anti-Scammer Alliance in fall, 2023, We wish to remain anonymous at this time for reasons of personal safety. We are victims of scammers, and we made a commitment to spread this concise information so that others may avoid the emotional trauma that we have endured, and/or to help other victims in their recovery, to understand what has happened to them. We make no claims to know everything about scammers or all aspects of their criminal activity.

keyword index
scam, scammer , scam recovery, scam reporting, identity theft, fraud, romance scam, financial scam, employment scam, commodity scam, advance payment scam, check cashing scam, sextortion scam, blackmail scam, lottery scam, government agency scam, social security scam, medicare scam, computer repair scam, customer service scam, Amazon scam, USPS scam, tax rebate scam, refund scam, money recovery scam, cryptocurrency scam, Amazon gift card scam, Apple gift card scam,