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Disclaimer

Read this before relying on anything here, in either direction — a published report and an absent one both have limits.

  1. 01Reports are accounts and findings, not verdicts in law

    Equipment Scam Report publishes buyer reports alongside independently verifiable records — domain registration, hosting, business registers, licence numbers, premises checks, and the origin of machine photographs. A report describes what was reported and what could be confirmed from public sources at the time of writing. It is not a criminal charge, a court judgment, a regulatory finding, or a determination of legal liability by any authority.

  2. 02Verdicts are our opinion, drawn from published evidence

    Confirmed Scam and High Risk are conclusions we draw from the specific evidence set out on the report itself. That evidence is published precisely so a reader can weigh it independently rather than accept a label on trust.

    Verdicts move in both directions as evidence arrives. A grade reflects the state of the record on the date shown, not a permanent characterisation of any business.

  3. 03Absence from this list means nothing

    A dealer, website, or phone number that does not appear here has not been cleared. Most equipment fraud is never reported to anyone, and these sites are built to run for weeks and then be abandoned — so the newest and most dangerous operations are precisely the ones with no record. Run the verification checks regardless of what this site says.

  4. 04Domains and identities change hands

    A domain named in a report may later be acquired by an unrelated party, a trading name may be reused legitimately by a different business, and a phone number may be recycled by a carrier to someone with no connection to the operation. Where a change of operator is established, a dated note is added. If you now control a domain named here, contact us and that will be made explicit on the record.

  5. 05No professional advice and no guarantee

    Nothing here is legal, financial, investigative, or tax advice, and no professional relationship is created by reading this site or by contacting us. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Treat it as one input into your own due diligence on a machine purchase, never as a substitute for inspecting the equipment and verifying the seller yourself.

  6. 06We never charge and never recover funds

    This is not a fund-recovery service and nobody working on it will ever ask you for payment. If someone contacts you claiming to represent this site and asks for money to recover a deposit or to remove a record, it is fraud. Report it, and tell us.

  7. 07Third-party marks and imagery

    Dealership names, logos, machine photographs, and screenshots appear only to identify the subject of a report or to evidence the reuse of a legitimate dealer's material by a fraudulent operation. Their appearance implies no affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from those owners — in most cases the opposite, since the genuine business is itself being impersonated.

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