Scams & Fraud

Trust check: Bitcoin Cash

Risk signal: LOW

No automated government/crypto-registry reports matched. Absence of a report is not proof of safety — check the consumer complaints below.

Consumer complaints for “Bitcoin Cash” (search these directly):

Where do I file a complaint? Oversight — route me to the right official complaint office →

Facts, not verdicts — we surface what public sources report; we do not adjudicate. Verify on the source before acting.

SEC PAUSE list — recent entries

1678 firms the SEC flags as falsely claiming to be registered. Sample:

• may capital group llc
• may capital group
• financial & regulatory oversight board
• the financial & regulatory oversight board
• re investors 126 llc
• varalen capital markets llc
• swfinvestguide financial services inc.
• financial regulation bureau

Government fraud trackers

• FTC Consumer Sentinel Network (key required) — Aggregate consumer-fraud complaints (incl. crypto/imposter/romance "pig-butchering") shared with ~2,800 law-enforcement users. ↗
• FTC Data Spotlight / data.gov (keyless api) — FTC fraud "Data Spotlight" reporting + FTC datasets cataloged on data.gov (CKAN). ↗
• FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) (key required) — Internet-crime complaint intake + annual Internet Crime Report (crypto-investment fraud is the largest loss category). ↗
• CFTC RED List (public) — Registration Deficient (RED) List — unregistered FOREIGN entities the CFTC has found soliciting US residents (a frequent crypto/forex-scam vector). ↗
• SEC PAUSE List (keyless api) — Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities — names of entities falsely claiming SEC registration/US location, impersonating real firms, or posing as fake regulators (~1,670 names). ↗
• SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search (keyless api) — Full-text search across all EDGAR filings — surfaces whether an entity/token name appears in real SEC filings, litigation releases, or enforcement actions. ↗
• SEC Litigation / Enforcement releases (RSS) (keyless api) — SEC litigation releases + enforcement actions (frequently crypto). RSS/Atom feeds. ↗
• CFTC Enforcement / Press (RSS) (keyless api) — CFTC enforcement actions + fraud advisories — digital-asset / forex fraud defendants by name. ↗
• State Attorneys General / NASAA / CSBS (key required) — State-level enforcement, investor alerts, and money-transmitter licensing — NASAA (securities) + CSBS/NMLS (money services). ↗

Consumer complaints & reviews

“I ordered two months ago and it never came” — crypto and non-crypto.

• BBB Scam Tracker (public) — Crowd-reported scams (online-purchase non-delivery, phishing, crypto, employment) with $ lost, location, and scam type. ↗
• Trustpilot (public) — Consumer reviews + 1-star complaint volume for any business domain — the canonical "ordered, never arrived" signal. ↗
• Ripoff Report (public) — Long-form consumer complaints against companies; non-delivery, fraud, deceptive billing. ↗
• SiteJabber (public) — Business + website reviews with a scam/legit lean, heavy on e-commerce non-delivery. ↗
• ConsumerAffairs (public) — Verified consumer reviews + complaints across retail, finance, services. ↗
• ComplaintsBoard (public) — High-volume consumer complaint board — non-delivery, refunds, scams. ↗
• PissedConsumer (public) — Consumer complaints + company responses; e-commerce and crypto-platform non-delivery. ↗
• CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (keyless api) — KEYLESS government API: real consumer complaints against financial companies (incl. crypto/virtual-currency), with narratives + company response. ↗

Crypto scam registries

• CryptoScamDB (keyless api) — Open-source registry of scam domains + malicious addresses (classic phishing/fake-ICO era). MIT-licensed dataset on GitHub. ↗
• OpenSanctions (keyless api) — Consolidated sanctions, PEPs, and regulator alert lists — including a structured mirror of the SEC PAUSE list (us_sec_pause). ↗
• Chainabuse (key required) — Largest multi-chain community scam-report DB (16 abuse categories) keyed by wallet address / domain / handle. Shared with FBI & regulators. ↗
• ScamAdviser (key required) — Per-DOMAIN trust score (0–100) from ~40 signals (registration, hosting, reviews, blocklists). ↗
• Whale Alert Scam Alert (key required) — Reported scam addresses + on-chain scam-flow tracking (giveaway/impersonation scams). ↗
• Etherscan address labels (key required) — Curated address LABELS — "Phish/Hack", "Fake_Phishing####", exchange hot wallets, etc. The de-facto on-chain reputation tags. ↗
• urlscan.io (keyless api) — Sandbox scans of URLs/domains incl. community "malicious" verdicts and phishing flags. ↗