How to read a crypto address report

You looked up a crypto address — maybe one someone asked you to send funds to, or one that appears in a message that feels off — and you landed on a report page full of badges, numbers, and notices. This guide explains what each part means, how much weight to give it, and what to do next.

The single most important thing to understand first: every signal on the page is community-reported and unverified. We aggregate what people tell us. We do not freeze funds, confirm guilt, or speak for any exchange or law-enforcement body. Read the page as a starting point for your own caution, not as a final ruling.

The report count

At the top of an entity page you will see how many reports reference this address. Counts matter, but not in a simple "more is worse" way:

Zero reports does not mean an address is safe. New scam wallets are created constantly and may not have been reported yet. Absence of evidence is not evidence of safety.
One report is a single person's account. It can be entirely accurate, but it is not corroboration. Treat it as a flag to investigate, not a conviction.
Many reports from different reporters is the strongest pattern. Independent people describing the same address and the same kind of loss is hard to fake and hard to dismiss.

Look past the raw number to the spread: are reports clustered on one day from one source, or spread over time from unrelated reporters describing consistent behaviour?

The confidence meter

The confidence value (0–100) is our attempt to summarise how much corroboration an address has. It is computed from signals such as the number of distinct reporters, the badges those reporters carry, how consistent the reports are with each other, and how recent the activity is.

Treat confidence as a relative dial, not an absolute probability:

A high confidence score means multiple credible, consistent reports — strong reason to avoid the address.
A low confidence score can mean either "lightly reported" or "reported but thinly corroborated." It is a prompt to look closer, not an all-clear.

Confidence answers "how much do reporters agree?" — not "is this person definitely a criminal?"

Contributor badges

Each report carries a badge describing the standing of the reporter, so you can weigh accounts differently:

Trusted contributor — a reporter with a track record of accurate, corroborated reports. These carry the most weight.
Checked — the reporter's submission passed our standard intake checks but they do not yet have an established history.
Not verified — a report we accepted but have not been able to corroborate, or from a new account. Useful as a signal, but the lowest weight.

A wall of "not verified" reports is weaker than a single "trusted contributor" report. Read the badges, not just the count.

The allowlist notice

Sometimes you will look up an address and see an allowlist notice instead of a scam-style verdict — even if reports exist. This is deliberate.

Large exchanges and custodial services pool customer funds into a small number of well-known deposit addresses. Victims tracing stolen money often follow it to one of these addresses, because that is where a scammer cashed out. The address itself belongs to a legitimate business, not the scammer. Labelling it "scam" would be inaccurate and unfair.

So when an address is on our allowlist, we suppress the scam-style verdict and show a notice explaining that it is a known service address. The reports are not deleted — they may help an exchange's compliance team — but we will not brand a custodian as a fraudster. This is our defamation guard, and it is a feature, not a gap.

If you were asked to send funds to an allowlisted address, that does not make the request safe. Scammers frequently route victims through real exchanges. The notice tells you about the address, not about the person asking you to use it.

The verdict

The verdict is the page's one-line summary:

Reported — the address has community reports against it. Proceed with strong caution.
No reports — we have nothing on file. Stay cautious; this is not a clean bill of health.
Allowlisted — a known service address, scam verdict suppressed (see above).

The verdict is a headline, not a court judgment. Always read the underlying reports before acting.

What to do next

Once you have read the page, decide based on context:

If you have not sent funds yet and the address is reported — stop. Crypto transactions are effectively irreversible. The cost of pausing is a delay; the cost of being wrong is your money.
If the page is empty but the situation feels like a scam — trust the pattern, not the silence. Unsolicited contact, guaranteed returns, pressure, and "pay a fee to withdraw" are red flags regardless of what any lookup says. Our guide to how pig-butchering scams work covers the common scripts.
If you have already lost funds — preserve evidence (transaction hashes, screenshots, chat logs) and consider filing a report so the next person who looks up this address sees your account. Our guide to reporting a scam effectively explains what helps most.
If you believe an address is listed in error — every entity page has a way to raise a dispute. We review challenges and can correct or remove inaccurate entries.

A report page is a flashlight, not a verdict from a judge. Use it to see more clearly, then make your own careful decision.