Digital Services Act reporting and escalation
Official European Commission guidance for platform notices, internal complaints, dispute settlement, and national Digital Services Coordinators.
Open resourcePremium Protection · Image Shield + Audience Shield
Real-time alerts the moment a deepfake or clone handle appears using your face or your handle — before it can DM your community or run a fake giveaway.
For creators, founders, and public figures whose face or brand imagery gets weaponized against their audience.
For anyone with an engaged audience — clone-handle detection and a public trust page your followers can verify.
What happens without it: A scammer scrapes three of your Reels, feeds them into a face-swap model, and posts a 45-second 'crypto opportunity' pretending to be you. It runs for 6 days before a follower DMs you a screenshot — by then $180k has moved through the wallet in the caption.
With Shield activated: With Image Protection, the subscriber can assess the suspect still image, preserve it in a private case, prepare a report and track the platform outcome.
What happens without it: Your professional headshot is lifted from LinkedIn and used to romance-scam victims across 3 continents. Victims report you to law enforcement; you spend weeks proving your innocence.
With Shield activated: Image Protection helps the subscriber preserve the discovered profile, generate a hashed evidence pack, prepare the relevant report and track follow-up through resolution.
What happens without it: An impostor swaps one character in your handle, copies your bio and pinned tweet, and replies to every high-engagement post from your account with a 'DM us for wallet recovery' scam. Two followers lose their seed phrases in 24 hours.
With Shield activated: Audience Shield checks monitored handles for lookalikes and routes suspicious accounts into the private incident-to-removal workflow.
What happens without it: A cloned Telegram channel invites your followers to a 'community-only airdrop.' The invite URL is shared as a QR code in Instagram Stories, bypassing normal link scanning.
With Shield activated: Audience Shield monitors Telegram t.me endpoints tied to your brand keywords, correlates them with cloned handles, and warns subscribed followers by email the same day.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. Cancel anytime. Founder pricing shown — locks in for the life of your subscription.
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Solo creators locking down one handle
Serious creators who need unlimited scanning
Multi-account creators and small brands
Households — protect the people you love
If you post video/photo content or your face is publicly associated with your brand, Image Shield is critical. If your audience engages with you on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Telegram, Audience Shield is critical. Most creators activate both — they cover different attack surfaces (visual impersonation vs handle/audience impersonation).
New scans run every 6 hours. Audience Shield clone-detection runs continuously and can alert within minutes of a new handle going live. Both send email + optional signed webhook.
A downloadable PDF with the case summary, preserved images, source URLs, timestamps, SHA-256 hashes, case history, a user-reviewed report draft and official platform reporting links.
Yes. A free account can run on-demand scans — up to five a day — for both Image Shield and Audience Shield. You'll see real matches before you decide. Continuous monitoring, the impersonator list and takedown packs start with a paid plan, from $9/mo.
Ownership is confirmed via a one-time bio-token or pinned post (for handles) and account linking or original-file upload (for images). Nothing is monitored on your behalf until ownership is proven — no false claims.
Use the service that matches the person's age, location, and type of abuse. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
Official European Commission guidance for platform notices, internal complaints, dispute settlement, and national Digital Services Coordinators.
Open resourceSpecialist nonprofit service for adults facing non-consensual intimate images, including synthetic or generated sexual images.
Open resourceOfficial federal information and reporting for platform failures after a removal request involving non-consensual intimate imagery or digital forgeries.
Open resourceHash-based support for images taken when the person was under 18, including synthetic content; images stay on the person's device.
Open resourceCanada's national tipline and practical removal guidance, with specialist support for young people and image-based abuse.
Open resourcePolicy and advocacy resources on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. The UN does not operate an individual takedown channel.
Open resourcePick your platform — each lander is tailored to that account type.
Independent primary sources used to check and corroborate the guidance on this page.
Official US channel for reporting internet-enabled fraud and cybercrime.
Consumer fraud reporting and published enforcement data.
UK national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
Canada's central repository for fraud reports and scam alerts.
Source: GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety · Published by the GACS Research Team
Cite this page: GACS (2026). Image Shield & Audience Shield — Impersonation Protection | GACS. https://gacs.app/shield-protection · Record ID GACS-shield-protection
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