Open Data & API

Regulator warning lists — flagged & unauthorised firms

Every firm and website named on the regulator warning lists ScamEncyclopedia tracks, with the issuing regulator, source URL and framing (unauthorised, impersonation, or fictitious regulator).

Rows

11,118

Size

7.7 MB

Last updated

21 September 2026

Licence

CC-BY-NC 4.0 (OpenSanctions-structured rows; attribution required)

Attribution

Rows structured via OpenSanctions (opensanctions.org) from official regulator warning lists; attribution to ScamEncyclopedia, OpenSanctions and the issuing regulator is required.

Coverage

2026-07-01/..

@misc{scamencyclopedia_regulator_warnings_20260921,
  title = {Regulator warning lists — flagged & unauthorised firms},
  author = {{ScamEncyclopedia}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Snapshot 2026-09-21},
  url = {https://scamencyclopedia.org/data/regulator-warnings.csv},
  license = {CC-BY-NC 4.0 (OpenSanctions-structured rows; attribution required)}
}

Scam taxonomy

The full scam knowledge graph: categories, scam sub-types, and cross-cutting dimensions (channel, victim profile, payment method, red flag, response step, reporting agency, country, platform).

Rows

1,037

Size

254 KB

Last updated

6 August 2026

Licence

CC-BY 4.0

Attribution

ScamEncyclopedia (scamencyclopedia.org/data).

Coverage

2026/..

@misc{scamencyclopedia_scam_taxonomy_20260806,
  title = {Scam taxonomy},
  author = {{ScamEncyclopedia}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Snapshot 2026-08-06},
  url = {https://scamencyclopedia.org/data/scam-taxonomy.csv},
  license = {CC-BY 4.0}
}

Scam & fraud statistics

Every cited statistic ScamEncyclopedia publishes across its global, country and scam-type statistics pages, one row per figure, each tied to a named official source and year.

Rows

520

Size

210 KB

Last updated

1 August 2026

Licence

CC-BY 4.0

Attribution

ScamEncyclopedia (scamencyclopedia.org/data); each row also cites its own named official source.

Coverage

2020/2025

@misc{scamencyclopedia_scam_statistics_20260801,
  title = {Scam & fraud statistics},
  author = {{ScamEncyclopedia}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Snapshot 2026-08-01},
  url = {https://scamencyclopedia.org/data/scam-statistics.csv},
  license = {CC-BY 4.0}
}

Threat-feed aggregates

Live aggregate counts from public, licence-permissive threat databases (malicious URLs, crypto-phishing domains, flagged domains, tracked data breaches) — counts and attributions only, no blocklist contents republished.

Rows

5

Size

2 KB

Last updated

22 September 2026

Licence

CC-BY 4.0 for this compilation; each source row keeps its own licence/attribution

Attribution

ScamEncyclopedia (scamencyclopedia.org/data). Each source row carries its own licence/attribution string which must be preserved.

Coverage

2026-09-22/2026-09-22

@misc{scamencyclopedia_threat_aggregates_20260922,
  title = {Threat-feed aggregates},
  author = {{ScamEncyclopedia}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Snapshot 2026-09-22},
  url = {https://scamencyclopedia.org/data/threat-aggregates.json},
  license = {CC-BY 4.0 for this compilation; each source row keeps its own licence/attribution}
}

Free firm-check API

GET /api/v1/firm-check?q=<name> checks a firm or website name against every regulator warning list ScamEncyclopedia tracks. q must be 3–120 characters; results are capped at 20 matches. CORS is open (*) and the endpoint is rate-limited to 60 requests per minute per IP. Response shape:

{
  "query": "...",
  "snapshotDate": "...",
  "total": 0,
  "matches": [
    {
      "name": "...",
      "slug": "...",
      "url": "...",
      "aliases": [],
      "framing": "impersonation | fictitious-regulator | unauthorised",
      "framingNote": "...",
      "citations": []
    }
  ],
  "message": "optional",
  "disclaimer": "...",
  "license": "...",
  "attribution": "...",
  "docs": "https://scamencyclopedia.org/data#api"
}

curl "https://scamencyclopedia.org/api/v1/firm-check?q=acme+capital"

A “no match” result is not a clean bill of health — show it to users as “not on the lists we track”, never as “verified safe”. For a human interface, see the firm-check tool and its embeddable widget.

Machine-readable feeds

• /api/index.json — Master index of every content type on the site, with counts and hub URLs.
• /api/scams.json — Every scam-type page: slug, title, category, risk level and summary.
• /api/faqs.json — Every published FAQ item, aggregated across pages.
• /api/questions.json — Every questions-and-answers page.
• /api/scam-messages.json — The sanitised scam-message library used for pattern examples.
• /api/warnings-index.json — The full regulator alert feed ({n,a,c,co,r} compact rows) used by the /warnings search.
• /api/search-index.json — The site-wide search index used by /search.
• /llms.txt — Short llms.txt summary for AI crawlers/agents.
• /llms-full.txt — Extended llms.txt with the full site outline.
• /ai.txt — AI-usage policy for this site's content.