Reader Scam Report

Scammers change their scripts every week. The best way to warn people is to see the real messages, so we are asking readers to send us the ones they get. Each month we count them, sort them by type, and publish what we found, with real examples and the red flags in each one.

Never send us your seed phrase, passwords, bank details or your full name. We will never ask for them, and nobody from DeFi Market Journal will message you first.

Send us a scam message

If you lost money

Stop sending money, and don't pay anyone who promises to get it back: that is the next scam. Report it to your bank or exchange and to the police. In the US, report it at ic3.gov and reportfraud.ftc.gov. Our guide Crypto Recovery Scams explains why the "recovery" offers are fake.

How the monthly report works

• We count every message readers send in that month, by scam type and by how it arrived.
• We remove names, phone numbers, wallet addresses, links and anything else that could identify you.
• We only quote messages when the sender said yes.
• We publish the real counts, even when they are small. We never add messages we made up, and we say when a number is too small to mean much.
• Each report links the matching DMJ guide for every scam type, so the next reader knows what to do.

The first report

We publish the first Reader Scam Report after we have counted one full month of messages. It will be in the Sunday Briefing first, then on this page.

You can also check a message right now with our Is This a Scam? quiz.