AI & Automation
Fake AI agencies, GPT-wrapper resellers, and "AI transformation" consultants selling capability they do not have.
Independent · Non-commercial · Sourced
A sourced record of agency and consulting fraud
Enforcement actions, court filings, and firsthand reports on the agencies, vendors, and programs that take the retainer and do not deliver. Every entry cites its sources.
The database opens shortly. The first entries are being built entirely from public records: regulatory actions, court dockets, and state attorney general filings. Reports are open now, and early submissions shape what gets investigated first.
What gets tracked
Four sectors, chosen because they share a pattern. Deals are high-ticket and sold on promises, oversight is thin, and buyers almost never compare notes with each other until it is far too late.
Marketing & Creative
SEO, paid ads, web design, and social media shops that bill a retainer against work never delivered.
B2B Services
Dev shops, recruiters, lead generation, fulfillment, and agency-in-a-box programs.
Coaching & Business Opportunity
Course sellers, masterminds, and done-for-you business programs sold on income claims.
How claims are labeled
The difference between a documented proceeding and an unverified complaint is the entire point of this site. It is never blurred, and it always appears on the entry itself rather than in the fine print.
- Documented
- Subject of a regulatory action, lawsuit, or other official proceeding on the public record.
- Reported
- Firsthand accounts submitted by people who paid. Not independently adjudicated.
- Disputed
- The operator has responded. Their reply is published alongside the entry, unedited.
- Resolved
- Refunded, settled, ceased operating, or the claim did not hold up. Kept for the record.
Why there is no scam score
No severity rating, no stars, no number out of ten. A score invented by this site would be an opinion dressed up as a measurement, and it would be the first thing an operator's lawyer went after.
Entries lead with counts instead, and every figure opens to a source you can check yourself:
4 independent reports · 2 regulatory actions · $312,000 in claimed losses · 6 business names since 2021 · contacted 3 times, no response
That reads worse for an operator than any rating could, and there is nothing in it to argue with.
How this differs from review sites
Trustpilot and the Better Business Bureau collect opinions about service quality, and the business being reviewed can pay for a presence on both. This is a record of specific alleged conduct, tied to citations, with documented proceedings kept visibly separate from unverified complaints.
No listed operator can pay for anything here. Not for removal, not for a badge, not for a faster review. That rule exists because sites which monetize removal turn a public record into a toll booth, and it is why the whole category is distrusted.
Common 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.
If you were the one who paid
Most of what happens in this industry never reaches a regulator. A retainer gets burned, the contract is quietly not renewed, and the operator moves on to the next buyer who has no way of knowing. Submissions are how that pattern becomes visible to the person about to sign.
You can submit without giving a name. Read how reports are handled before you do.