Before you trust us, read this

Yes, scammers copy pages like ours

It’s a strange thing to say on a page about spotting scams, but here it is: scammers copy scam-awareness pages. They message people who’ve already lost money and offer to “recover” it, for a fee. Then they take that too.

The FTC’s advice on this is blunt: don’t trust anyone who says they can recover money you lost in a scam for a fee, and never pay upfront for a refund or for help getting one. The FBI has warned that scammers even pose as its own Internet Crime Complaint Center. The real IC3, the FBI says, has no social media presence and will never ask for payment to recover lost funds.

So before you trust us, here is exactly what we will and won’t do.

We will never

• DM you first
• Ask for money, gift cards or crypto
• Offer to recover money you’ve lost
• Ask for passwords or verification codes

If an account with our name or logo does any of those, it isn’t us.

Our only accounts

• Instagram and TikTok: @heydoublecheck.us
• YouTube: @heydoublecheck_us
• Website: heydoublecheck.com

Anyone else? Not us. Report and block.

Every warning we post has a label

We warn early, which means sometimes we speak before everything is official. The label tells you exactly how sure we are. The fuller the badge, the surer we are.

• ● Confirmed. An official source has said it: a government agency, a bank, or the company being impersonated.
• ◐ Reported. At least two credible sources say it’s happening. Not official yet, but worth knowing now.
• ○ Heads-up. We haven’t seen it yet, but we expect it, because it happens every year. (Black Friday, tax season, you know the drill.)

No hype. No fake urgency. Just what we know, and how we know it.

If we get something wrong

If a warning changes, or we got it wrong, we update it publicly, with the same visibility as the original. We don’t quietly delete it, and we always say what changed and why.

Double check us too. Every post links its sources, and they’re listed at the bottom of every page on this site.