About
Binari Chowkidar is a free, community-driven registry for reporting and looking up scams, fraud, and illicit crypto activity. Chowkidar means "watchman" — and that is the role this site plays: a shared lookout that anyone can consult before they send money, and anyone can contribute to after they have been targeted.
Our mission
Online fraud works because it is fast, irreversible, and isolating. A scammer reuses the same wallet addresses, domains, and scripts across hundreds of victims, but each victim usually discovers it alone, after the money is gone. Our mission is to break that asymmetry by pooling what people already know.
When you can paste an address or a domain into one place and see whether others have reported it — before you transact — the scammer's biggest advantage disappears. We exist to put that lookup in everyone's hands, for free, with no account required to search.
How we relate to the Orbit platform
Binari Chowkidar is the public, community-facing front of Binari Orbit, our wider fraud-intelligence platform. Orbit is where reports are stored, structured, and connected; Chowkidar is the open window onto the parts of that intelligence that are safe to share publicly.
In practice this means:
- The reports you file here flow into the Orbit data layer, where they are associated with the identifiers they name.
- The lookups you run here read from that same layer, so a public search reflects the community's combined reporting.
- Sensitive or private material stays within Orbit and is never published, even when a related public report exists.
This separation lets us be open about scam patterns without exposing the people who reported them.
Community-reported and unverified
We want to be direct about what this registry is and is not. Everything you see here is community-reported and unverified. We aggregate first-hand accounts from people who say they were targeted or scammed. We do not:
- Confirm that any named person committed a crime.
- Freeze, recover, or move funds.
- Speak on behalf of any exchange, bank, or law-enforcement agency.
A report is one person's account. Several consistent reports from independent reporters are stronger, but they are still accounts, not verdicts. We surface contributor badges and a confidence indicator so you can weigh reports sensibly, and we explain exactly how those work on our methodology page.
We also take care not to defame the innocent. Addresses belonging to known exchanges and custodial services are allowlisted, so a legitimate business is never branded a scammer just because stolen funds were traced to its deposit address. And anyone who believes they have been listed in error can raise a dispute.
Who it is for
Binari Chowkidar is built for several kinds of people:
- Anyone about to transact — send money, buy from a marketplace seller, accept an investment pitch — who wants a quick second opinion on an address, domain, or contact.
- People who have already been scammed and want to warn others, preserve evidence, and put the scammer's identifiers on record.
- Investigators, journalists, and compliance teams who use community reports as leads and corroboration.
- Everyday internet users learning to recognise the common fraud scripts before they are targeted.
How to use it
Three things you can do right now:
- Look something up. Search an address, domain, phone number, email, or social handle to see whether the community has reported it. Read our guide on how to read a crypto address report to interpret what you find.
- File a report. If you have been targeted, submit a report. Our guide on reporting a scam effectively explains how to make it high-signal while keeping your own information private.
- Learn the patterns. Our articles break down how the most damaging scams operate, so you can spot them early.
A watchman is only as useful as the eyes that feed it. Every accurate report you contribute makes the next person's lookup a little more likely to save them. Thank you for being one of those eyes.