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Treat these with care. Some are genuine warning communities, but the category also contains sites that charge to run a check, sites that publish photographs of people who have done nothing, and recovery services that target the already-defrauded. A stolen photo tells you the picture was stolen, not who was using it, so a clean result proves very little.
How to spot this scam
- It asks for payment to run a search or to see the result. The FTC's guidance on prize and recovery offers applies here: pay-to-view is the business model, not the service.
- It promises to identify or unmask the person behind a profile. Nobody can reliably do that from a photograph.
- It offers to recover money you already lost, for a fee or a percentage. That is the second scam, and it hunts people who lost to the first.
- The entries are user-submitted with no verification, meaning innocent people whose photos were stolen appear as offenders.
- It wants the conversation history, your dating profile, or your contact details before showing results.
- It pressures you with urgency, which is out of place for a database that is supposedly just a lookup.
What to do now
- Use the platform's own reporting tools first. They can see message patterns and account history that no outside site can.
- Report to ReportFraud.ftc.gov and to the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, which is where reports actually aggregate into cases.
- Never pay for a search, and never pay anyone promising to recover lost money.
- Judge the person by behaviour rather than by a photo check: refusing to meet, escalating fast, and asking for money are what matter.
- If a photo of you is being misused, report it to the platform hosting it and keep evidence.
- Talk to someone you trust before acting on any result, especially one you paid for.
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Sources and reporting
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