Frequently asked questions

What is AI Fraud Tracker?

AI Fraud Tracker is an independent, non-commercial database of alleged fraud in the agency and consulting industry. It covers AI vendors, marketing agencies, B2B service firms, and business-opportunity programs. Entries are built from regulatory actions, court filings, and firsthand reports from people who paid, and every entry cites the sources it rests on.

How do you decide what gets published?

Nothing publishes without at least one citation, and the requirement is enforced by the software rather than by memory, so an entry with no source will not build. Every entry also needs a hard identifier beyond a name, such as a profile URL or a company registration number, because publishing about the wrong person who happens to share a name is the most serious mistake a database like this can make.

Is there a scam score or star rating?

No. There is no severity rating, no scam score, and no stars, and that is deliberate. A number the site invents is an opinion dressed up as a measurement. Instead each entry shows counts that can be checked: how many independent reports exist, how many official actions have been filed, total losses claimed, how many business names the operator has traded under, and whether they responded when contacted.

Can I report a company anonymously?

Yes. Reports can be submitted without a name, and no report is ever published in a form that identifies its submitter without explicit permission. One limit is worth stating plainly: no website can shield a submitter from a court order, so anyone facing that risk should take advice first and keep their own copies of their evidence.

What happens if I am named and the entry is wrong?

Anyone named has a permanent right of reply that never expires. Responses are published on the entry itself, word for word, with no editing, summarizing, or line-by-line rebuttal. Point to a specific factual error and it gets checked immediately, and if it is wrong the entry is corrected and the correction is logged publicly with its date.

Do you charge to remove or change an entry?

Never, at any stage. There is no fee for takedown, arbitration, expedited review, or a badge, no paid tier, and no advertising from anyone who could appear in the database. Sites that monetize removal turn a public record into a toll booth, and that business model is why the whole category is distrusted.

How is this different from Trustpilot or the Better Business Bureau?

Review platforms collect opinions about service quality and let the reviewed business pay for a presence. This is a sourced record of specific alleged conduct, it separates documented proceedings from unverified complaints on the face of every entry, and no listed operator can pay for anything at all.

What does not get published here?

Private individuals who are not selling a service, personal data such as home addresses and phone numbers, single uncorroborated complaints with no documentation, and ordinary commercial disputes. A project that ran late or a deliverable somebody disliked is not fraud, and treating it as fraud would make the rest of the database worthless.

Anything not covered here goes to [email protected]. For the full editorial standard, read the methodology.