Report a scam — to Scam Checker, your bank, and the official authorities

There are two parallel things to do when you receive a scam: the urgent personal actions (changing passwords, contacting your bank, freezing accounts) and the reporting actions. The urgent actions come first — never delay calling your bank to file a scam report somewhere else. But once the immediate damage is contained, reporting is what makes the difference between this scam stopping with you and continuing to hit thousands more people.

For Scam Checker specifically, reporting takes one minute. Paste the suspicious phone number, URL, or email sender into our checker — there is a "report this as a scam" button on the result. Your contribution lands in the community reports feed, anonymised, and joins the live data that other people see when they check the same number or link. It also feeds the trending and category pages so we can see which scams are surging.

Beyond Scam Checker, every country has at least one official body that wants to hear about fraud. We maintain a directory at the global scam reporting directory, covering Scamwatch, the FTC, Action Fraud, the CAFC and dozens of national equivalents. The reporting flow below tells you which of those to contact first based on your situation.