Learn the patterns once.

Paste the suspicious link, wallet address, phone number, or @handle into the GACS scanner at gacs.app — you get a Safe / Caution / Danger verdict in under 5 seconds, cross-checked against 136,000+ confirmed scams and live community reports. No account required for the first 10 scans per week.

Six social-engineering levers fire across almost every scam: urgency ('in the next 24 hours'), authority (claims to be IRS, police, support, a CEO), scarcity ('last spot'), reciprocity ('I helped you, so you owe me'), social proof ('everyone in the group did it'), and isolation ('don't tell anyone'). When two or more fire at once, pause for 24 hours and call a person you trust.

Set up a 'pause rule' together: any unexpected request for money, codes, or gift cards waits 24 hours and gets a phone call to you first — IRS, Amazon, grandchild, bank, anyone. Practice the script 'I have a rule that I think about it for 24 hours. Goodbye.' and add it to a sticker on their phone. The full playbook is at /education/protect-elderly-parents.

Yes. If a new online friend introduces you to a trading platform, mentor, or 'uncle' with insider tips, it is a pig-butchering scam — always, no exceptions. Withdrawals only work for small amounts to build trust; the moment you deposit a meaningful sum, the platform demands a 'tax' or 'verification fee' and your money is gone. Stop sending money immediately and read /education/pig-butchering.

Stop sending money (don't pay any 'release fee' or 'tax' — that's the same scam). Screenshot every conversation, transaction, and profile URL. Move remaining funds from any compromised wallet to a fresh one. Change passwords on email and linked accounts from a clean device. Then file at /report and your national cybercrime unit (US: IC3.gov, UK: ActionFraud, EU: national police cyber unit). The full first-hour checklist is at /education/recover-after-attack.

No. Recovery services that DM victims on Telegram, Instagram, or WhatsApp are a second scam targeting people who already lost money. Real recovery never works that way. No one can magically reverse a crypto transaction; law-enforcement traces are slow and partial. Block them and report the account at /report.

Four rules prevent ~95% of wallet drains: never type your seed phrase into any website, app, or chat — not even 'wallet support'; use a hardware wallet for anything worth more than a month of rent; bookmark official exchange URLs and never reach them through Google ads; sign every transaction by reading it — if you can't tell what it does, reject it. Full breakdown at /education/wallet-safety.