Read this disclosure before relying on a search result, sending money, or taking action concerning a suspected scam.
1. Search Results Are Preliminary
Search results are generated from a locally maintained reference list and basic risk indicators. The database is not exhaustive, is not continuously connected to every regulator or registry, and may not reflect recent changes. A result is not a legal finding, regulatory determination, or guarantee of legitimacy or fraud.
2. Recognized Names Can Be Impersonated
Fraudsters may copy the names, logos, websites, employee identities, telephone numbers, and documents of legitimate institutions. A recognized brand name does not establish that a website, app, representative, social-media account, email, or caller is genuine. Verify the exact domain and independently contact the institution through its known official website.
3. Registration Does Not Eliminate Risk
Registration, licensing, exchange listing, or inclusion in our reference list does not mean an investment is safe, suitable, profitable, insured, or free from loss. Investments can lose value, and some products can lose all invested value.
4. No Recovery Guarantee
We do not guarantee recovery of money, cryptocurrency, securities, or other assets. Recovery may be impossible. Outcomes depend on timing, transaction method, evidence, jurisdictions, counterparties, insolvency, and decisions made by banks, exchanges, courts, regulators, law enforcement, and other independent parties.
5. Follow-Up and Recovery Scams
Victims are often targeted again. Be cautious of anyone who guarantees a result, demands cryptocurrency or payment to a personal wallet, requests advance “tax,” “release,” “unlock,” “gas,” or “verification” fees, asks for passwords or private keys, requests remote access to a device, or pressures you to act immediately.
6. Immediate Protective Steps
If you believe you have been scammed, stop sending money and preserve messages, receipts, transaction hashes, wallet addresses, websites, emails, telephone numbers, screenshots, and statements. Contact the relevant bank, card issuer, exchange, or payment provider through an independently verified official channel. Consider reporting the incident to appropriate authorities, including the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or relevant state and local authorities.
7. Independent Advice
Nothing on this website is legal, financial, tax, or investment advice. Consider consulting a qualified attorney, licensed financial professional, tax adviser, or appropriate government authority about your circumstances.
8. Contact
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