Who operates the Site and what this notice covers
TheScamCenter publishes research, reviews and warnings about online financial fraud: unauthorised broker platforms, fake crypto exchanges, trading applications built to collect deposits, and investment groups run through messaging services. The operator of TheScamCenter is the controller of the information described below and can be reached at contact@thescamcenter.com.
Scope and structure
This notice explains how your information is handled when you use the Site at thescamcenter.com. It does not cover any other website, even one we have linked to, nor an independent professional you engage after an introduction. The body below is arranged by the kind of person you are when you deal with the Site. Read the section that fits you, then the common sections at the end. The version in force is the 2026 edition.
Visitors who only read articles
Most readers pass through thescamcenter.com without ever identifying themselves. They arrive from a search engine, read a page about a platform they were considering, and leave. Even so, visiting generates a little information.
What is collected
Standard server logs: IP address, date and time, page requested, referring page, and the browser and device identifiers in the user agent string. Aggregate analytics record page views, approximate country and traffic sources. A few cookies operate, some necessary, the rest optional and dependent on consent.
Why it is collected
Logs let us keep thescamcenter.com online and identify attacks. Sites that publish about fraud attract hostile attention, and without logs an attack cannot be told from ordinary traffic. Analytics show which subjects readers need. The basis is our legitimate interest in operating the Site securely, and for optional cookies, your consent.
How long it is kept
Logs rotate on the host and are ordinarily overwritten within weeks, except where one is preserved for a security investigation. Analytics information is aggregated and not attached to an identifiable person.
Who else sees it
Our hosting provider, content delivery network and analytics provider, acting on our instructions and barred from using it for their own purposes. Nothing here is sold, and none of it feeds behavioural advertising.
Visitors who submit the contact form
People write to report a platform, to check whether an operator that approached them is genuine, or to look for a way forward after losing money.
What is collected
A name or alias, an email address so a reply can reach you, and your message. Messages often include the name of a platform, dates, amounts, the handles of those who made contact, and screenshots of conversations.
Why it is collected
To answer you and to inform our editorial work, since reader reports are one of the ways we learn that a new operation has started or an old one has changed name. Replying rests on our legitimate interest in responding to correspondence; editorial use rests on our legitimate interest in journalism, supported by the provisions privacy laws make for journalistic expression.
What we ask you not to send
No identity documents, full bank statements, card numbers, passwords or seed phrases. None of that is needed to start a conversation. Treat any unsolicited request for such material, especially one claiming to come from us, as suspicious.
How long it is kept
Two years from the last message in the thread, then deletion. Correspondence tied to a live editorial dispute, a challenged article or a legal claim is kept until that concludes.
Who else sees it
The editorial team and our email provider. Nothing is forwarded by default. Information leaves our hands only as described below, under a valid legal order, or where disclosure is necessary to protect someone from serious harm.
Visitors who ask to be put in touch with an independent legal adviser
TheScamCenter refers people to independent legal advisers and lawyers who assist with preparing and filing reports to regulators, financial authorities and law enforcement. This section applies only if you ask for an introduction.
What is collected
The details already in your correspondence, plus anything further you provide so the adviser can understand the matter: your jurisdiction, the platform concerned, the sequence of events, and the documentation you hold. We record that you consented and when.
Why it is shared
Because you asked, and the introduction cannot be made without passing on enough for the adviser to assess whether they can assist. The basis is your explicit consent. Withdraw it beforehand and nothing is sent; afterwards, a disclosure already made cannot be undone.
What the adviser becomes
An independent controller of your information, governed by their own privacy notice and professional rules. They are not our agents. Their fees, scope and terms are matters between you and them.
How long it is kept
We keep our copy of the correspondence and the record of consent for two years, so we can show what was shared and on what authority. The adviser’s own retention period is theirs to set.
Representatives of companies and platforms who contact the Site
Businesses named in our articles write to us regularly, as do their lawyers and advisers. Complaints, corrections and requests for a right of reply are welcome.
What is collected
Your name, role, organisation and contact details, and the substance of your representation. That usually includes documents: corporate filings, licence records, correspondence with regulators, or evidence that a warning has been withdrawn.
Why it is collected
To assess your complaint against what we published, to correct the record where correction is warranted, and to keep a defensible account of how the matter was handled. The basis is our legitimate interest in editorial accuracy and in the defence of legal claims.
How long it is kept
Longer than ordinary correspondence. Complaint files, the evidence supplied and the decisions reached are retained while the article remains published and for a period afterwards covering the applicable limitation period.
Who else sees it
The editorial team and, where a matter is contentious, our own legal advisers and insurers. A statement sent expressly for publication is published. The rest stays private unless you ask otherwise.
Subscribers and commenters where those features are enabled
Not every site running on this platform enables email updates or reader comments. Where thescamcenter.com does, this section applies to you.
What is collected
For updates, an email address, the record of when and how you subscribed, and basic delivery statistics. For comments, your display name, email address, the comment text, and the IP address it came from, used for spam filtering.
Why it is collected
To send the updates you asked for, on the basis of consent, and to run a comment area not overrun by spam, on the basis of legitimate interests. Subscriber lists are never sold or shared with advertisers.
How long it is kept
Subscriber data until you unsubscribe, which every message allows in one click. Published comments remain with the article unless you ask for removal or they breach our rules.
Who else sees it
Comments are public by design, so treat what you write as visible to the world, and do not post personal details, yours or anyone else’s. Our email provider processes subscriber addresses on our instructions.
Matters common to everyone
Security
The Site is served over TLS so submissions are encrypted in transit. Access to mailboxes and administrative accounts is limited to those who need it and protected by multi factor authentication, software is patched routinely, and backups are encrypted. Our strongest protection is restraint: information never gathered cannot be exposed. If a breach presented a risk to people, we would notify the competent authority and the individuals concerned.
International transfers
The infrastructure behind thescamcenter.com may sit in a country other than your own, and caching servers hold copies of pages in many regions. Where your information leaves the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, we rely on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, on the UK addendum, or on an adequacy decision covering the destination.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may ask what is held and receive a copy, have inaccurate information corrected or erased, restrict or object to processing, receive your information in a portable format, and withdraw consent at any time. California residents may also ask about the categories collected, the sources, the purposes and the recipients. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross context behavioural advertising.
Requests go to contact@thescamcenter.com, and we answer within the period the law sets: one month in the UK and the European Economic Area, forty five days in California. One limit is worth stating plainly. A request to erase personal information does not oblige us to withdraw published journalism; a claim that an article is inaccurate is handled through the right of reply procedure in our terms.
Children
The Site is intended for adults. We do not direct TheScamCenter at anyone under sixteen and do not knowingly collect information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has sent us information, write to contact@thescamcenter.com and we will delete it.
Changes and complaints
We revise this notice when our practices change, and the 2026 text supersedes earlier versions. Minor clarifications happen without announcement; a material change is flagged on the Site. Every question and complaint should go to contact@thescamcenter.com first, because most concerns are quicker to resolve directly. If that does not satisfy you, complain to a supervisory authority: the Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom, the data protection authority where you live in the European Economic Area, or the California Privacy Protection Agency.