Guides

How to spot catfish, scams, fake accounts and red flags, with checks you can do yourself and where to get help.

  1. Face Search How to Tell If Someone Is Catfishing You: 9 Signs Nine warning signs, a five-minute check you can run on any profile, and what to do if the story falls apart.
  2. Face Search How to Reverse Image Search a Person, Step by Step Step-by-step reverse image search with Google Lens, Bing and TinEye, how to read the results, and why no match doesn't prove a photo is real.
  3. Chat Analyzer Romance Scam Warning Signs and How the Scam Works The stages of a romance scam, how crypto pig butchering and gift card requests work, and the steps to take if you've already sent money.
  4. Scam Detector How to Spot Scam Texts and What to Do If You Clicked The scam texts doing the rounds in the US, UK and Australia, the signs to look for, a safe way to check, and what to do if you already tapped the link.
  5. Profile Analyzer How to Spot a Fake Account or Bot on Social Media The giveaway signs of fake accounts and bots, what Instagram, X and Facebook now show about an account's history, and how to report one.
  6. Chat Analyzer Breadcrumbing, Love-Bombing and Ghosting Explained Plain definitions, the text patterns behind each one, how to tell manipulation from ordinary mixed signals, and what to do next.