Privacy Policy

When you paste a message, email, website, or phone number into the checker, we analyze it on our server to produce your result. We never store the message itself — the part that can contain your personal information — and we do not use it to build public pages.

When a result is suspicious or high-risk, we do keep the scam’s “fingerprints” to help warn other people: the links, phone numbers, and sender email addresses involved. These identify the scammer, not you. We never store the body of your message alongside them.

If you choose to submit a report through the Report a Scam form, we store what you enter so a person can review it. Reports are never published automatically. If we ever publish information from reports, we remove personal details first. Your name and email — if you provide them — are never shown publicly and are used only to follow up if needed.

If you use the Contact form, we store your message (and your name and email if you include them) so we can respond and improve ScamSplain.

To keep the service working and to prevent abuse and spam, we may process basic technical information such as your approximate request rate. Where we keep a record tied to a submission, we store only a one-way hashed form of your IP address, not the address itself.

• We do not sell your information.
• We do not require an account to use ScamSplain.
• We do not publish your name, email, or contact details.
• We do not put personal or sensitive data into web addresses or share it with third parties for advertising.

You never need to give ScamSplain your full card number, passwords, PINs, or Social Security number, and we ask that you don’t include them in reports or messages.

Questions about privacy? Use our Contact page.