SCAMMINGEXPOSED A free, public scam database — worldwide
Pre-launch · Evidence file 001 · $1.026 trillion stolen worldwide in 2024 · Source: Global Anti-Scam Alliance

One trillion
dollars.
Stolen
last year.

Last year, scammers stole more than one trillion dollars from ordinary people on every continent. I am one developer, building the search engine, the warning, and the pause button that will help end this.

One developer · Open source · Donor-funded · Free for everyone, everywhere, forever

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Live · Stolen worldwide since you opened this page
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Elapsed 00:00:00
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Rate ~$32,500 / sec
Source GASA 2024 ↗
$1.03T Global scam losses, 2024
1 in 4 People hit by a scam each year, worldwide

The numbers are bigger
than people realize.

Every figure on this page is from a primary source. Every source is linked. The case for building this is not made of opinions — it is made of receipts.

  1. $1.03T Stolen worldwide, 2024

    The Global Anti-Scam Alliance documented more than one trillion dollars in scam losses in a single year, across 43 surveyed countries. The real figure is higher — most scams go unreported.

    GASA · Global State of Scams Report, 2024 ↗
  2. 1 in 4 Hit each year, worldwide

    More than a quarter of adults globally lost money to a scam in the past twelve months. The poorest countries report the steepest year-over-year increases.

    GASA / Feedzai, 2024 ↗
  3. $9.5T Total cybercrime cost, global, 2024

    Cybercrime — fraud, ransomware, scams, identity theft combined — cost the global economy more than nine trillion dollars in 2024. By 2026, the projection is over $13 trillion.

    Cybersecurity Ventures, 2024 Forecast ↗
  4. +27% Year over year, global losses

    Scam losses are accelerating faster than any other crime category. AI voice clones, industrialized call centers, and global payment rails make every elderly person on earth a target now.

    GASA YoY · IC3 / Action Fraud / Scamwatch, 2024 ↗
Evidence — B

A scam economy on every continent

Reported losses, latest available year, by national authority.

  • United States
    $10.0B
    FTC Sentinel · 2024
  • United Kingdom
    £1.17B
    UK Action Fraud · 2024
  • Australia
    AU$2.74B
    Scamwatch · 2024
  • Canada
    C$638M
    CAFC · 2024
  • Germany
    €5.1B
    BKA Bundeslagebild
  • Singapore
    S$651M
    Singapore Police Force
  • Brazil
    R$28B
    Febraban · 2024
  • India
    ₹107B
    CERT-In · 2024
  • Japan
    ¥45B
    NPA · 2024
  • Kenya
    KSh100B
    Comm. Authority · 2024

Many countries do not publish national scam-loss figures. The map of this crime is incomplete on purpose — that is part of what this project will fix.

Evidence — C

Where the money goes

United States · 60+ · 2024 · FBI IC3 categories

  • Investment & pig-butchering
    $5.6B
  • Romance & relationship scams
    $1.14B
  • Tech-support scams
    $924M
  • Government impersonation
    $789M
  • Job & employment scams
    $501M
  • Sweepstakes & lottery
    $300M
  • Crypto-ATM courier scams
    $246M

US-only chart shown; the same categories dominate scam losses in every country with published statistics.

Three free tools.
One developer.
Shipped in sequence.

Each phase is independent. Each phase ships before the next begins. The site comes first because it is the public record everything else depends on.

  1. 01
    Phase 01

    The Index

    A free, searchable record of every documented scam, scammer, scam phone number, scam wallet, scam URL, and scam script. Aggregated from public-domain sources around the world — CFPB and FTC in the US, Action Fraud in the UK, Scamwatch in Australia, Interpol bulletins, the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, OFAC sanctions, court records, and verified community reports from 200+ countries.

    • 7M+ CFPB consumer complaints, indexed by name and entity
    • Action Fraud · Scamwatch · CAFC · NCSC · BKA · NPA daily feeds
    • URLhaus · PhishTank · OpenPhish — every known phishing URL
    • Chainabuse · CryptoScamDB — every reported scam wallet
    • CourtListener · UK BAILII — every fraud docket and judgment
    • Translated into 30+ languages with on-demand search
  2. 02
    Phase 02

    The Warning

    A free browser extension that recognizes scam pages while a person is reading them — before they click, before they call, before they send. It does not block. It tells them what the page is, in plain language, in their language. The same extension a journalist would install on their parent's laptop tonight.

    • On-device detection — no browsing data leaves the machine
    • Plain-language warnings, translated into the user's locale
    • Works on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari · MV3 compliant
    • Tech-support popups · fake refunds · drainer dApps · spoofed banks
    • Open source · audited · reproducibly built
  3. 03
    Phase 03

    The Pause

    A free phone app, built for vulnerable users with their explicit, revocable consent. When the app sees a scam unfolding — a tech-support popup, a wire-transfer page, a pressure call — it inserts a sixty-second mandatory pause and plays a recorded voice from someone the person trusts. Just enough time to think. Just enough time to call a daughter, anywhere in the world.

    • Opt-in by the protected person — never installed in secret
    • Family records a short voice memo at setup
    • 60-second mandatory pause when scam patterns coincide
    • On-device call + SMS classification (Whisper + ONNX)
    • Family dashboard sees risk events. Family does not see content.
Letter from the founder · One person · One laptop

Hello — I'm Eric.

I'm one developer. There is no "we." There is no team, no investors, no acquisition target, no shareholders. There is me, a laptop, a domain, and the people who decide this should exist.

Two months ago I started building EpsteinExposed.com — a free public archive of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. It now holds 2.15 million documents, has been read in over 200 countries, and is used by reporters every day. I shipped it alone in eight weeks. I'm telling you that so you know I can build the next thing.

Last month, my grandmother answered a phone call from someone who said he was me. He used a voice that sounded like mine. He told her I had been arrested in another state and needed bail. She came within minutes of wiring forty-two hundred dollars to a man she will never meet. She is one of hundreds of millions.

I'm building this next. The code will be open from the first commit. The data will be public. Every donation will be itemized in a public ledger every quarter. Because I have no investors and no shareholders, this can stay free for everyone, in every country, for as long as I am alive.

If you can spare $5, you keep this alive for a day. If you can spare $25, you keep it alive for a week. If you can't spare anything, share the page with someone who can. That helps too.

Eric · Solo developer Filed in the public interest

Every dollar shows up in a public ledger.

Below is the projected monthly run-rate at full operation. Real numbers will replace these estimates the day the site launches, and a fresh ledger will drop every quarter forever.

  • Database (Neon Postgres) searchable index of every scam record, daily ingests
    ~$200 /mo
  • Cloud storage + CDN (Cloudflare R2 + Pages) billions of indicator URLs · daily threat-feed pulls
    ~$50 /mo
  • AI inference (Anthropic Claude API) translation, scam-pattern classification, vision detection
    ~$300 /mo
  • Email + transactional (Resend / Loops) ledger + waitlist + transparency reports
    ~$30 /mo
  • Domain + TLS + SSO scammingexposed.com plus locale subdomains
    ~$15 /mo
  • Independent security audits every public release reviewed by an outside firm
    ~$5,000 /yr
  • Open-source bug bounties rewarding researchers who find real bugs
    ~$2,000 /yr
Projected monthly $1,179 ≈ $14,148/yr at full operation
What that means

236 people giving $5/mo keeps this alive. 47 giving $25/mo, and the database never goes down.

Five promises, in writing.

Trust is a finite resource. The fastest way to burn it is to write promises in marketing copy and break them in product decisions. What follows is not marketing. It is what I will defend at the cost of the project.

  1. I.

    Free for everyone, in every country, forever.

    No paid tiers. No premium features. No data sold for revenue. Donations and grants only. If I cannot fund it that way, I will say so publicly and shut it down before I change the rules.

  2. II.

    The source code will be open.

    Public on GitHub from launch day. Audited by independent reviewers before any feature that touches a user's screen, calls, or messages. The Guardian app will be reproducibly built — anyone can verify the binary on their phone matches the source on the public repo.

  3. III.

    I will publish a quarterly public ledger.

    Every dollar in. Every dollar out. Server bills, audit costs, taxes. Same format every quarter. Linked from the homepage. Forever.

  4. IV.

    I will not sell data, run ads, or monetize attention.

    I will not show you somebody else's grandmother's tragedy to sell you a product. The trust of vulnerable people is the entire point. Burning it for revenue would defeat the project.

  5. V.

    Guardian requires explicit, revocable consent.

    From the protected person, not the family member. The protected person can pause it, scope it, audit every alert, and uninstall it without a passcode. Family members do not get a backdoor — ever. I will sign this in writing and shut down the project before I break this rule.

One last thing.

Five dollars. One day alive.

If you have $5, this stays alive for a day. If you have $25, a week. If you can't spare anything, share the page with someone who can. Either way — thank you.

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