AI notice

Images

Some images on Scam Check Desk were created with AI image tools: the scene at the top of the homepage, the photographic background behind the pages and the photo-style objects shown beside articles (a fishing hook through a bank card, a padlock, envelopes, gift cards, a magnifying glass, a wallet, a telephone handset and a security key). Each of these images carries a visible "AI" mark on the image itself, and the page background carries an "AI background" mark. The image files also keep their machine-readable provenance marker, which is never altered or removed. The objects are decorative and show no real person, product or company.

Charts, the folder logo and the icons are drawn graphics and are recognisable as such. No image on this site shows a real person.

How the information is checked

Every published page is reviewed by the Scam Check Desk editorial team for substance and checked against the official records it cites before publication; the date shown as "Checked" on a page is the date of that review. Facts come from official and primary sources such as the Federal Trade Commission, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, state attorneys general, courts, registry records and the companies' own published terms. A page that cannot be supported by such a source is not published.

Editorial responsibility: the Scam Check Desk editorial team. How pages are researched and checked is described on How scam information is checked.