Terms of use

Last updated August 17, 2026

1. 01Acceptance of these terms

   By accessing Fraud Reported you agree to these terms of use. If you do not agree with them, do not use the site. We may revise these terms at any time, and continued use after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised version.

2. 02What this site is

   Fraud Reported is a public-interest consumer information archive. It publishes case files describing reported and documented fraud in the online sale of vehicles and equipment, together with the open-source records we relied on and the reasoning behind each risk level.

   We are not a law enforcement agency, a licensed private investigator, a law firm, a credit reporting agency, a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or a fund recovery service. Nothing on this site is legal, financial, or investigative advice.

3. 03Opinion, fair comment, and reporting

   Case files combine statements of verifiable fact with our opinions and conclusions drawn from those facts. Statements about domain registration dates, hosting records, payment methods, business registration status, and the origin of listing images are presented as factual and sourced. Risk levels and characterizations such as high risk are our opinion based on the disclosed evidence.

   Buyer accounts are published as the reports of the individuals who made them, and are identified as such. We take reasonable steps to verify them but cannot independently confirm every element of a private transaction.

4. 04Accuracy and no warranty

   The archive is provided on an as-is and as-available basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

   The absence of a domain from this archive is not an endorsement, a clearance, or any indication that a seller is legitimate. Most fraudulent websites are never reported to anyone. Conversely, business names and domains can change hands, and a file may describe conduct by a prior operator.

5. 05You are responsible for your own transactions

   You alone are responsible for the decisions you make about buying, selling, or sending money. Use this archive as one input among many, and carry out your own verification, inspection, and due diligence before any payment. Our verification guide describes the checks we consider minimal.

6. 06Limitation of liability

   To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fraud Reported, its operators, and its contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of money, profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of your use of or reliance on this site or anything published on it.

7. 07Submissions you send us

   When you submit a report, evidence, or correspondence, you confirm that your account is truthful to the best of your knowledge, that you have the right to share any material you send, and that you are not submitting anything to harass a competitor or a person you are in an unrelated dispute with.

   You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to publish, edit for length and clarity, and archive the substance of your submission. We publish first names or initials only and do not publish your contact details. Knowingly false reports are removed and may be reported to the relevant authorities.

8. 08Acceptable use

   • Do not scrape, bulk-download, mirror, or resell the archive. Journalists, investigators, and agencies should contact us instead.
   • Do not use this site to threaten, dox, or harass any person named in a case file or their family, employees, or associates.
   • Do not attempt to interfere with, probe, or overload the site or its infrastructure.
   • Do not misrepresent yourself as affiliated with us, or solicit victims through us.

9. 09Intellectual property

   Case file text, analysis, and site design are our copyrighted work. Short quotations with a link back are permitted for reporting and commentary. Third-party marks, logos, and screenshots appear only for identification and evidentiary purposes and remain the property of their owners; their appearance in a case file does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

10. 10Corrections, disputes, and removals

    If you are named in a case file and believe it contains an error, do not begin with a legal threat; begin with documentation. Our corrections policy sets out exactly what we need and how quickly we act. Verified corrections are published on the file itself.

11. 11Third-party links

    Case files link to registrars, government registries, court records, and news coverage. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or availability.

12. 12Governing law

    These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which the site operator resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect.