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Bitcoin address lookup — is this wallet safe?

Paste any Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or BSC address to check for scam reports, drainer activity, sanctions, and stolen-fund links. Multi-chain, no signup.

Look up an address I already sent funds

All major chains

BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX, MATIC, ARB, OP, AVAX, BASE — auto-detected from the address format.

Drainer + sanctions

Cross-checked against OFAC, known drainer wallets, ransomware payment addresses, and confirmed scam clusters.

Co-funding graph

Inherits flags when an address receives from or co-funds with a confirmed bad address — catches fresh wallets too.

Why look up a Bitcoin address before sending

On-chain transactions are final. Once funds leave your wallet they cannot be recalled, charged back, or frozen by a third party. Three seconds of due diligence on the receiving address — broker, "investment manager", marketplace seller, or recovery firm — is the cheapest insurance in crypto.

What a flag actually tells you

  • Confirmed scam report — at least one GACS user filed evidence against this address.
  • Sanctioned cluster — the address belongs to an OFAC-listed entity (Lazarus, mixers, ransomware).
  • Drainer wallet — the address has been observed sweeping funds from victims after a malicious signature.
  • Co-funding link — the address shares funding hops with a known-bad wallet, a common pattern for scam-ring deposit addresses.

When the result comes back clean

A clean lookup means no red flags in the public datasets right now. It does not prove the counterparty is honest — only that they are not yet reported. For high-value transfers, also: search the address on Google in quotes, check the block explorer for transaction history depth, and verify any business identity independently of the link or DM you received.

Frequently asked questions

How do I look up a Bitcoin address?

Paste the address into the GACS wallet checker. The scanner cross-references confirmed scam reports, sanctioned-address lists (OFAC), known drainer wallets, ransomware payment addresses, and on-chain co-funding patterns. You get a verdict in seconds, with the reasoning attached.

Is this Bitcoin wallet a scam?

If GACS flags the address, it has matched at least one of: a community scam report, a sanctioned cluster, a known drainer or ransom wallet, or a co-funding link to a known-bad address. A clean result means no red flags in the public datasets — it does not prove the counterparty is honest, only that they are not yet reported.

Can I look up Ethereum, Solana, or BNB wallets too?

Yes. The lookup is multi-chain: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH and ERC-20s), Solana (SOL and SPL), BNB Chain (BSC), Tron (TRX/USDT-TRC20), Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche and Base. Paste the address — the scanner detects the chain automatically.

Does this show wallet balance and transactions?

The lookup focuses on risk and reputation signals rather than a generic block-explorer view. For balance and transaction history, the scanner links out to the relevant explorer (mempool.space, Etherscan, Solscan, etc.) once the risk check completes.

How do you know an address is linked to a scam?

Three sources: community reports filed on GACS with on-chain evidence, public lists of sanctioned and ransomware addresses, and graph analysis — if an address receives funds directly from a confirmed drainer or co-funds with a confirmed scam cluster, it inherits the flag.

I sent crypto to a scammer — can you help me recover it?

On-chain transactions are irreversible. No tool, including GACS, can pull funds back. What GACS can do: flag the destination address so future victims see a warning, give you the on-chain trail to attach to a police report, and warn you about the recovery-scam DMs that always follow a public loss.

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