Free Forever Guarantee

A written, public commitment that the core GACS scam-protection tools will remain free for every individual, with no paywall, no ads, and no data sales — for the lifetime of the project.

Always free for individuals

Every core safety tool — social scanner, website checker, wallet checker, scam database, alerts, and reporting — stays free for every person, in every country, with no usage cap that blocks a real emergency.

No paywall on safety

We will never put a verdict, an alert, or a takedown behind a paid plan. If a tool helps someone avoid losing money, it has to be free at the point of need.

No ads, no tracking, no data sales

No ad networks, no behavioural profiling, no selling scan data to third parties. The business model is donations and optional creator monitoring tiers — that's it.

No deposits, no wallet access

GACS never asks for your seed phrase, private keys, exchange logins, or a deposit. Any tool that does is itself a scam.

Funded by donations + creators

Sustainability comes from voluntary donations and creators paying for continuous monitoring of their own following lists — never from the people who need protection most.

What "free forever" specifically covers

• Social-media impersonator scans (X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, Discord)
• Website and domain checks
• Crypto wallet and transaction lookups
• The full public scam database at /global-scam-database
• Scam-alert feed and trending-scam tracker
• Victim reporting at /report and recovery guidance
• Educational guides at /education

What is paid (and why that doesn't break the guarantee)

Creators with large audiences can pay for continuous monitoring of their own following lists, reply threads, and mentions — a workflow that uses meaningful compute and only benefits the creator's brand. Paying creators help fund the free tools that protect their followers. No paid tier ever unlocks a different verdict or a better scam database for end users.

If we ever break this

If a future operator ever tries to paywall the core scanner, the project's source-visible builds and the public scam database make it trivial to fork. The data and the methodology belong to the public-safety community, not to whoever runs the domain.

Read more about how we stay sustainable on /why-free and our principles on /about.