Act
How to help
What actually helps, what to do first, and the things that would quietly damage the case if a crowd did them. The most valuable thing an outside volunteer can do is preserve and report. Not investigate.
Did you lose money to one of these sellers?
Read the victims brief. Stop there. Your own report is worth more than anything else on this page.
Are your photos or your rescue’s name being used?
You are a victim here too. The victims brief, then send us the URL.
Comfortable with checksums and critical reading?
Verify our manifests. Try to break our conclusions.
Ten minutes?
Archive public pages before they disappear. File platform reports.
Ten seconds?
Submit the domains to the blocklists. The next person who clicks gets a full-page warning instead of a checkout form.
You know the breeder community?
Pass this to breeders and rescues whose images are being used.
Why this is report-and-preserve only
| Never do this | Why |
|---|---|
| Probe the sites or message the operators | Volunteer traffic is indistinguishable from the investigator’s in any forensic reconstruction. A hundred well-meaning page loads hand a defence the argument that the captured evidence was self-generated |
| Identify the people behind the accounts | Every displayed identity that could be checked was stolen or fabricated. A crowd identification lands on a victim, a bystander, or nobody at all — and the harm is permanent |
| Contact victims | A stranger appearing in someone’s inbox about the scam they fell for is, from their side, indistinguishable from a recovery scam — the best-documented secondary victimisation pattern there is |
Three of the domains named in the earlier evidence are already gone
Every page archived today is a page that still exists when a regulator, a journalist, or a lawyer goes looking in six months. That is not a consolation prize. It is the part that keeps mattering after the exciting part is over.