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Free scam-awareness resources

Citation-ready tools, statistics, and guides for journalists, teachers, NGOs, and consumer-protection bloggers covering online fraud. Everything below is free to link, quote, and embed — original GACS data is released under CC-BY 4.0 (attribution to gacs.app).

Most-linked tool

Website Checker — is this site safe & legit?

The fastest free scam-website checker on the web. Paste any URL — instant trust score, 12,000+ confirmed-scam database, AI verdict. No signup, no per-query limit. Safe to link from any consumer article: https://gacs.app/website-checker

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Free tools (link or embed)

Website Checker
Paste any URL — free trust score + verdict in 5 seconds. No signup, no limits.
Wallet Checker
Look up any BTC, ETH, SOL or TRON address across 50,000+ flagged wallets.
Link Checker
Expands shortened links, follows redirects, grades the final destination.
Public Scam Database
Searchable index of every confirmed scam — wallets, sites, phone numbers, profiles.

Citable statistics (June 2026)

Quote any of these in articles, classroom slides, or research. Please attribute "GACS — gacs.app" and link to this page.

12,000+
Confirmed scam websites tracked
Source: GACS public blacklist, June 2026
50,000+
Flagged wallet addresses across BTC/ETH/SOL/TRON
Source: GACS wallet intelligence, June 2026
60%+
Of pig-butchering & parcel scams begin with a single messenger link
Source: GACS 2026 link-vector analysis
< 90 days
Median age of fresh scam domains at first community report
Source: GACS domain-age corpus, n = 8,400

Guides worth citing

My parent got a weird message — what now?
First-hour family triage script.
Is this crypto wallet/address safe?
5-check workflow before you send a transaction.
How to report an online scam (by country)
Reporting paths for the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia.
Ultimate scam-detection guide (2026)
The full-length reference — 12,000 words, 50 patterns, cited sources.

Official reporting agencies (worldwide)

A vetted, country-by-country directory of where to actually report online fraud. Free to link.

FTC ReportFraud USA
Federal Trade Commission consumer-fraud reporting portal.
IC3 (FBI) USA
Internet Crime Complaint Center — for crypto, BEC, and ransomware.
Action Fraud UK
UK national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
Scamwatch Australia
ACCC's scam-reporting portal with weekly category data.
CAFC Canada
Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre — central national repository.
Europol EC3 EU
European Cybercrime Centre — coordinated cross-border response.

Full reporting playbook by country →

Embeddable "Website Checker" badges

Three copy-paste variants — pick one to drop on any consumer-protection article, classroom page, or community-safety post. Pure HTML & inline styles, no script tag, no tracking, works in WordPress, Ghost, SubStack, Webflow, or a static site. Every badge links to /website-checker.

Dark pill (default)

Works on light and dark articles. Pairs well with consumer-protection content.

Check this site free on GACS

<a href="https://gacs.app/website-checker" rel="noopener"
   style="display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;padding:10px 16px;
          background:#10b981;color:#052e23;
          font:600 14px/1 system-ui,-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;
          text-decoration:none;border-radius:999px;">
  ✓ Check this site free on GACS
</a>

Light card (sidebar)

Boxed callout for blog sidebars and resource lists.

Free tool

Check if a website is safe & legit →

gacs.app — no signup, 5 seconds

<a href="https://gacs.app/website-checker" rel="noopener"
   style="display:inline-block;padding:14px 18px;background:#fff;color:#0f172a;
          font:600 14px/1.4 system-ui,-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;
          text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d1d5db;
          border-left:4px solid #10b981;border-radius:6px;max-width:300px;">
  <div style="font-size:11px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;
              color:#10b981;margin-bottom:4px;">Free tool</div>
  <div>Check if a website is safe &amp; legit &rarr;</div>
  <div style="font-size:12px;color:#475569;margin-top:4px;font-weight:400;">
    gacs.app &mdash; no signup, 5 seconds
  </div>
</a>

Inline text link

Plain prose — drop inside an article sentence.

Not sure if a site is real? Run it through the free GACS website checker before you enter anything.

Not sure if a site is real?
<SafeAnchor href="https://gacs.app/website-checker" rel="noopener"
   style="color:#047857;font-weight:600;text-decoration:underline;">
  Run it through the free GACS website checker
</SafeAnchor>
before you enter anything.

Free to use under CC-BY 4.0. Attribution to gacs.app is built into every badge.

Auto-embed (oEmbed)

Platforms that support oEmbed (WordPress, Ghost, Discourse, Discord, Slack, etc.) will auto-render the badge when you paste https://gacs.app/website-checker. Provider endpoint:

https://gacs.app/api/public/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgacs.app%2Fwebsite-checker&format=json

For journalists & researchers

Need a custom dataset cut, an interview, or scam-pattern context for a story? Email press@gacs.app. We respond within 24 hours and provide source data on request.

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