Community reports
Report a scam website
If a site took your money, harvested your details or impersonated a brand you trust, tell us. Reports move a domain into our manual review queue, and what you write here becomes part of the public record other people read before they make the same decision.
Ordered something that never arrived? Do these three things first
1. Raise it with the payment provider, not the seller. If you paid by card, ask your bank to raise a chargeback for goods not received. If you paid by UPI or a wallet, raise a dispute in the app immediately — these windows are short, and they close long before the seller stops replying. Keep the order number and the payment reference.
2. Save the evidence before the site changes. Fake shops edit or delete their own pages once complaints start. Screenshot the product page, the price you paid, the checkout confirmation, the tracking number and every message from their support. A page that disappears next week cannot be verified next week.
3. Report it where it can be acted on. File on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal at cybercrime.gov.in or call 1930, and complain to the seller's payment gateway. Then tell us, so the next person searching that domain finds your account before they order.
What we can and cannot do with your report
We publish what public signals and first-hand accounts show about a website. We are not a regulator or an investigating agency, and being straight about that saves you expecting the wrong outcome.
What a report achieves
- ✓Moves the domain into the queue for review by an analyst
- ✓Adds your account to the public report so others see the pattern
- ✓Feeds signals that lower the domain's trust score
- ✓Helps us spot networks — the same operator behind fifty domains
What a report cannot achieve
- ×Recovering your money or reversing a payment
- ×Taking a website offline — only registrars, hosts and courts can
- ×Acting as a police complaint or any kind of legal filing
- ×Guaranteeing publication, since every report is moderated first
What is worth reporting
Anything where a website was the instrument. If the contact happened only by phone or in person, the cybercrime portal is the better route.
Fake shops
Order placed, money taken, nothing delivered. Or a counterfeit arrived and the returns address does not exist.
Phishing and impersonation
A login page copying a bank, a courier, a tax portal or an employer, usually reached from an SMS or email link.
Investment and crypto fraud
Guaranteed returns, a dashboard showing profits you cannot withdraw, or a "tax" demanded before payout.
Job and task scams
Paid tasks that require a deposit, a registration fee, or your identity documents before any work exists.
Subscription traps
A free trial that quietly bills monthly, with cancellation hidden behind a form that never completes.
Malware and forced downloads
Fake update prompts, browser lockers, or a download that installed something you did not ask for.
What makes a report useful
Moderators read every submission. These are the details that let us verify a claim instead of filing it as unverifiable.
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The exact address, not the search term
Copy the URL from the address bar, including the page you landed on. Scam operations run dozens of near-identical domains, so shop-deals-in.top and shopdeals.in are different reports.
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How you got there
An SMS link, an Instagram ad, a Google result, a WhatsApp forward, an email. The route matters as much as the destination, because it tells us how the operation acquires people and whether an ad network is carrying it.
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What actually happened, in order
What you were promised, what you paid or entered, what you received. Dates and amounts help. Write it as a sequence of events rather than a verdict — "I paid on 3 March and the tracking number was never valid" is far stronger evidence than "this site is a fraud".
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Evidence you can attach
Screenshots of the checkout page, the order confirmation, the payment reference, the chat with support, the email headers. Cover your card number, CVV, OTP and full account numbers before uploading — we do not need them and we do not want to hold them.
Accepted: one PNG, JPG or PDF file, up to 8 MB -
Anything that identifies the operator
UPI IDs, bank account and IFSC details, wallet addresses, phone numbers, the company name on the invoice, the address in the footer. This is what links one domain to the next and turns a single complaint into a mapped network.
Submit your report
All fields are required. The more specific your account, the faster a moderator can verify it.
What happens after you submit
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Acknowledgement within 24 hours
You get a reference number by email. Keep it — quoting it is the fastest way to add evidence later or to ask where your report has reached.
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Moderation
A moderator checks that the report describes a real experience, that the domain matches, and that nothing in the text identifies a private individual. Reports written to attack a competitor are rejected, and repeat submissions from the same source are traceable.
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Review and scoring
Verified reports move the domain into the manual queue. An analyst opens the site, tests the claims that can be tested, and records what they find. Your account appears in the report's own section, separate from our findings, so readers can tell which is which.
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Right of reply
The site operator can respond through our correction process. If they show that a published claim is factually wrong, we correct it and say so. We do not remove accurate reports because a business objects to them, and we never charge for any of this — suppressing or selling reviews would make every other report on this site worthless.
Reporting content about a person, not a business
We publish assessments of websites, not of individuals. Do not submit someone's name, address, phone number, photographs or identity documents. Submissions containing personal information about a private individual are rejected and deleted rather than published.
Reports you submit are your own statements, published as user content. If you believe something on this site about you is inaccurate or unlawful, write to our team — the details and timelines are on the contact page.