Chainabuse vs WalletWhitePages
These two are often mistaken for competitors. Chainabuse is where you file a scam report. We are where you find out who is behind the address and get told when that picture changes. Most victims should use both.
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373M+
Wallets tracked
1.1B+
Records indexed
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Intelligence sources
Chainabuse is a free, public, community-submitted database of cryptocurrency scam reports, operated by TRM Labs. Anyone can file a report against an address, a URL, or a project, and anyone can read what has already been filed. It is one of the most useful free resources in this space and we recommend people use it.
Its scale is real. At the time of writing, its own site shows well over a million reports across twenty scam categories, led by phishing at roughly 560,000 and rug pulls at roughly 387,000, with sextortion, ransomware, and blackmail each in the tens of thousands.
If you have been scammed, filing there is a genuinely good idea. It warns other people, it feeds professional intelligence tooling, and it costs nothing. This page is not an argument against doing that.
First, it does not tell you who is behind the address. A Chainabuse report tells you that somebody else says this address scammed them, and sometimes tells you which scam category and how much was lost. It does not surface a name, an alias, a social profile, a linked exchange account, or contact details. It is a record of harm, not an identity file.
Second, as of this writing it is not a monitoring tool. You can look up an address and read the reports that exist today, but you cannot subscribe to an address and be emailed when a new report is filed against it, when a sanctions listing appears, or when a name attaches to it. If you check today and something surfaces next month, nothing tells you.
Both of those are reasonable scope decisions for a free community reporting platform. They are also exactly the gap we fill.
Chainabuse's own figures show roughly 747,000 reports tagged to a specific chain across 37 chains. The distribution is heavily concentrated: about 287,000 on Bitcoin, 242,000 on BNB Smart Chain, and 196,000 on Ethereum.
Then it falls off a cliff. Tron shows only around 9,200 reports, despite Tron being one of the dominant rails for USDT-based investment and pig-butchering fraud. Solana is around 4,100 and Litecoin around 3,000. If your loss was on Tron, the absence of reports against an address tells you almost nothing.
This is the core limitation of any purely community-reported dataset. Coverage follows where reporters happen to congregate, not where fraud happens. A clean Chainabuse record is not evidence that an address is clean.
Worth understanding, because it explains the shape of the product and it is a point in favour of filing there.
Chainabuse is operated by TRM Labs, which sells blockchain intelligence to exchanges, banks, and government agencies. TRM's Forensics product page lists among its features "the largest database of scam and fraud victim reports". That database is substantially what the public files on Chainabuse.
So the arrangement is this: you file a report for free, and it becomes part of the value of a product that TRM lists at £33,272 to £41,590 per licence per year on the UK G-Cloud framework. We are not presenting that as a scandal. It is a coherent and fairly common model, and it is what keeps Chainabuse free for everyone.
It is also genuinely good news for a victim. It means your report does not sit in a void: it reaches professional investigators and law-enforcement customers who have the tooling to act on it. That is a better outcome than most reporting channels can offer, and it is the single strongest reason to file there.
What it also explains is the gap. A free reporting funnel has no commercial reason to hand you identity data or to monitor addresses on your behalf, because that capability is what the licensed product is for. Chainabuse is designed to collect reports, not to answer your question. See TRM Labs vs WalletWhitePages for what the paid end of that pipeline costs.
We aggregate scam reports too, including our own community submissions, but reports are one input among many rather than the whole dataset. Across 100+ intelligence sources, 373M+ wallets, and 1.1B+ records, a report pulls together names and aliases, social profiles, contact details, linked exchange accounts, sanctions and risk labels, related wallets, and the reports filed against the address, each with its source cited.
The second difference is the one that matters most after the first week. Add an address to monitoring and we email you the moment something new attaches to it: a fresh scam report, a newly discovered identity link, a sanctions listing, a social account. Five wallets are free forever, and Pro at $40 a month makes it unlimited. Intelligence on a wallet is not static, and a one-time lookup goes stale.
Searching is free, so you can see how much exists on an address before paying anything. A full report is $19.99 once, or $40 a month for ten credits plus unlimited monitoring.
Cost: Chainabuse is entirely free. WalletWhitePages is free to search and monitor five wallets, $19.99 for a full report.
Data model: Chainabuse is community-submitted reports. WalletWhitePages aggregates 100+ sources including reports, off-chain identity, and sanctions data.
Tells you who owns it: Chainabuse, no. WalletWhitePages, that is the core of the product.
Ongoing alerts on an address: Chainabuse, no. WalletWhitePages, yes, five free and unlimited on Pro.
Best for filing a report: Chainabuse, clearly. Its audience is larger and its reports feed professional tooling.
Best for deciding whether to send money: WalletWhitePages, because an absence of community reports is not an all-clear.
File the report on Chainabuse. It is free and it helps the next person. Then file with law enforcement: the FBI's IC3 if you are in the United States, and follow the FTC's guidance on what to do after paying a scammer.
Check the address against the OFAC sanctions list, because a sanctioned counterparty changes what your bank and your exchange are able to do.
Then run the address here and put it on monitoring. That is the step people skip, and it is the one that pays off, because scam operations reuse infrastructure and new information attaches to these addresses for months afterwards.
Both, and Chainabuse first. It is free, its audience is large, and its reports feed professional intelligence tooling. Then report it here too and put the address on monitoring so you hear about anything new that attaches to it.
Chainabuse is operated by TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that sells to exchanges, banks, and government agencies. TRM's own Forensics product page cites "the largest database of scam and fraud victim reports" as a feature, and that database is largely what the public files on Chainabuse. That is why the site is free, and it is also why your report reaches professional investigators.
Yes, completely. Filing and reading reports costs nothing, because the reports feed TRM Labs' commercial intelligence products. We are also free to search and free to monitor up to five wallets; you only pay if you unlock a full report.
No, and this is the most common mistake. Community reporting is concentrated on a few chains: Chainabuse shows roughly 287,000 Bitcoin reports but only around 9,200 on Tron, which is a primary rail for USDT investment fraud. An absence of reports usually means nobody has reported it yet, not that it is clean.
No. A report tells you that someone says the address harmed them, and often which category of scam. It does not surface names, aliases, social profiles, linked accounts, or contact details. That identity layer is what we index.
No, and we would not recommend using it as one. If you are a regulated exchange, bank, or payment firm that needs continuous transaction screening, audit trails, and a vendor your regulator already recognises, buy one of the enterprise platforms. WalletWhitePages is for people and small teams who need an answer about a specific wallet without a procurement cycle.
Ours are on our pricing page: free to search and monitor five wallets, $19.99 for a single full report, or $40 a month for ten report credits plus unlimited wallet monitoring. Theirs are quoted from documents they published themselves, and we link to each one. Where a vendor publishes no price at all, we say that instead of repeating a third-party estimate, because those estimates disagree with each other enormously.
They tell you when the intelligence on a wallet changes, not when its balance does. A new scam report filed by another victim, a newly linked name or alias, a social or exchange account tied to the address, a fresh sanctions listing. Tools that alert on transactions tell you money moved. Ours tell you something new was learned about who is behind the address.
No. There is no demo, no discovery call, and no order form. You paste a wallet address and get results. A free account adds monitoring for up to five wallets and costs nothing.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana, Litecoin, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, XRP, Dogecoin, Avalanche, and more. The enterprise platforms generally cover more chains than we do, and if exhaustive chain coverage is your requirement, that is a real reason to choose them.