Official Reporting Resources
Official scam, fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, postal, investment, and consumer protection reporting links. Use this category to compare suspicious patterns before you click, reply, pay, scan, download, or share private information.
Use official reporting channels.
Save safe evidence, verify through official sources, and avoid recovery-fee promises.
How to use this official reporting resources section
The Official Reporting Resources section is built for people who received something suspicious and need a clear, calm way to check it. Instead of guessing, search the wording, compare the request with known scam patterns, and verify through the official source before taking action.
Official reporting pages help people choose the right agency, platform, or provider after a suspicious message or loss.
The safest path is to use official websites typed manually or linked from trusted government and platform pages.
Avoid third-party recovery promises, unofficial reporting forms that ask for sensitive logins, and anyone charging upfront recovery fees.
Common signs across this category
- Unexpected contact that creates urgency, fear, excitement, embarrassment, or secrecy.
- A request to click, reply, call back, scan a QR code, pay a fee, download a file, or share sensitive information.
- Logos, names, screenshots, or caller ID details that look familiar but do not prove the request is real.
- A path that pulls you away from the official website, official app, verified account, printed bill, or known phone number.
- Pressure to act before you can ask someone else, check your account, or compare the message with official information.
Guides currently in this category
This section currently includes guides such as related scam patterns. Each guide is written to explain the pattern without accusing private people, accounts, or phone numbers.
Official Reporting Resources guides
Every guide includes warning signs, safer verification steps, what to do if you already acted, reporting resources, and related internal links.
More guides are being built
This category is part of the full DontClickYet scam-safety structure. More original guides will be added here as the database expands.
Important note about suspicious patterns
A suspicious pattern does not automatically prove that a specific person, number, profile, or business is fraudulent. DontClickYet focuses on education, pattern recognition, and safer next steps. When in doubt, verify through official websites, official apps, known phone numbers, account dashboards, statements, or trusted professionals.
Extra checks for official reporting resources
This category deserves careful attention because it often involves FTC, IC3, IdentityTheft.gov, postal inspection, investment complaints, platform reports, banks, payment apps, and account security teams. The message may not look sloppy. Many suspicious messages now use clean formatting, realistic logos, familiar names, and believable timing. That is why DontClickYet focuses on the requested action, not just the design.
Common examples in this area include:
- reporting a payment app loss
- reporting identity theft after sharing personal details
- reporting online fraud or cybercrime
Best verification step: Use official websites typed manually or trusted government/platform links, and save evidence without clicking further into suspicious pages.
When reviewing a possible official reporting resources message, separate the claim from the contact method. A real company, platform, bank, agency, employer, marketplace, or app should still let you confirm the issue through its official website, official app, account dashboard, printed statement, verified profile, or known phone number.
DontClickYet uses safer wording on purpose. A guide can say a pattern is commonly associated with scams without accusing a specific private person, profile, email address, or phone number. That keeps the site useful, responsible, and focused on practical safety decisions.
What to keep before reporting
Useful evidence may include screenshots, usernames, profile links, email headers, phone numbers, payment receipts, transaction IDs, wallet addresses, invoice numbers, dates, times, and the platform where the suspicious contact happened. Keep this information only when it is safe.
Do not click further into suspicious links just to collect evidence. Do not keep communicating with a suspicious sender if they are pressuring you, threatening you, or asking for more money. Reporting should support safety, not create more exposure.