Who runs
this site.
You are about to take advice on money and fraud. You should know exactly where it comes from.
ReportScammer.org is a free educational resource. It explains how common online scams work and points you to the official government channel that handles your case, in your country. It is published by a company, funded by that company, and written by people whose day job is looking at the parts of the web where these scams are built.
- Published by
- Onion Search Engine LLC
- Registered address
- 244 Madison Avenue #1031
New York, NY 10016
United States - Contact
- [email protected]
We reply to every message about a broken link or a factual error. - Legal status
- A limited liability company. We are not a charity, not a non-profit, and not a government agency.
Why we built it
Onion Search Engine LLC operates a search engine that indexes the Tor network. That work means we spend a lot of time looking at infrastructure most people never see: cloned bank login pages, fake investment dashboards, marketplaces selling stolen card data, and the toolkits sold to people who run these schemes.
From that vantage point, one thing is obvious. The scams that reach ordinary people are not clever, one-off cons. They are products — templated, resold, and run at industrial scale against thousands of targets at once. The same fake trading platform gets rebranded a dozen times. The same phishing kit gets pointed at a new bank every week.
That is good news for anyone trying to defend themselves, because a pattern can be learned. It is also why reporting matters even when your own money is gone: your report is one data point in the file that eventually gets a whole operation taken down.
What we kept running into was the last mile. Someone works out they have been defrauded, searches for help, and lands in a maze of agencies — some of which take reports, some of which do not, some of which have jurisdiction and some of which will quietly close the file. We built this site to shorten that maze.
What we do, and what we don't
We do
- Explain how each scam type works and what gives it away
- Point you to the correct official reporting channel for your country
- Help you put your evidence together before you file
- Keep every outbound link checked and dated
- Publish everything free, with no account and no paywall
We don't
- Collect or receive scam reports ourselves
- Investigate cases or contact scammers on your behalf
- Recover lost money, or refer you to anyone who claims they can
- Take down websites or remove listings from other sites
- Ask for your bank details, ID documents, or payment
If someone contacts you offering to recover funds you lost to a scam — for an upfront fee, a "release payment", or a tax — that is a second scam targeting the same victim. It is one of the most common follow-ups in the industry. We will never make that offer, and neither will any legitimate agency.
How we research and verify
Everything on this site is written against primary sources. When we describe how to report fraud in a country, the procedure comes from the agency that runs it — not from another blog summarising it.
- Official sources only. Reporting steps, phone numbers and deadlines come from government and regulator websites. Where a figure is disputed or a procedure is ambiguous, we say so rather than smoothing it over.
- Links are checked on a schedule. Government reporting portals move and get renamed. Every outbound link is re-checked quarterly, and each page carries the date it was last reviewed.
- No affiliate links. We do not earn a commission on anything. Nothing on this site is recommended because someone paid for the placement.
- No AI-generated advice published unreviewed. Drafting tools may be used, but every procedural claim is checked against the source by a person before it goes live.
- Corrections are visible. If we get something wrong and it affected the advice, we fix it and note the change on the page rather than editing silently.
How this is funded
The site is paid for by Onion Search Engine LLC out of its own revenue. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placements, no affiliate links, and no paid listings. We do not sell data, and there is nothing on these pages to buy.
We say this plainly because the incentive question is fair. A site about fraud that made money from referrals would have a reason to send you somewhere other than the free government portal. We don't, so we don't.
What we collect about you
Nothing you type into the report kit reaches us. It runs entirely in your browser: the text it produces is assembled on your own device and disappears when you close the tab. There is no account, no login, and no submission button that sends your case anywhere.
We keep standard server logs for security and, where analytics are used, they are aggregate — page counts, not people. If you email us, we hold that email and nothing else.
Corrections, and what we can't act on
Write to [email protected] if a link is dead, a procedure has changed, or a page is wrong. That is the fastest way to improve the site and we are grateful for it.
Two things we regularly get asked and cannot do:
- We cannot remove a listing about you or your business. We do not host a database of scammers, so there is nothing here to remove. If a complaint about you appears on a different site, that site's operator is the only party who can act on it.
- We cannot take down a scam website. Takedowns are handled by registrars, hosting providers and national cybersecurity agencies. Our guide to reporting a scam website explains how to reach each of them.
Independence
ReportScammer.org is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the FTC, the FBI, Action Fraud, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Scamwatch, Europol, or any other agency named on this site. We link to them because they are the right place to file. Nothing here is legal or financial advice, and it does not replace a report to your local police.