Then somebody has been using your photograph, and you are the person it was taken from. That is the usual reason a picture ends up here, and nothing on this page is an accusation against you.
Scamby holds a list of 64-bit fingerprints of pictures that people have reported seeing on profiles they believed were fake. It does not hold your photograph, your name, your face, or anything that could be turned back into an image. The entry is a number and a label saying where somebody saw the picture.
So the list is of images that have been reused, not of people. Scamby never says that the person in a picture is a scammer, and the app is written so that it cannot: a result shows the fingerprint, how close the match is, and where it was reported from.
This is the part worth being straight about. If telling us a picture is yours removed it from the list, then anyone could clear any entry by saying so — including the person reusing your photograph, who has far more reason to ask than you do.
The picture is also still being used. Somebody checking that profile tomorrow is better off being told it has been reported before. Removing the entry would help the person reusing it and nobody else.
What changes instead is what Scamby says. Once a person has read your claim and agreed with it, the app stops hedging and states it: the person in this picture has said it is theirs, taken without their permission, and that has been checked.
Two ways, and neither asks you to prove anything.
Please do not send identity documents. We will not ask for them and we do not want them. Proof of identity is exactly the kind of material Scamby is built not to hold, and demanding it would make defending yourself more expensive than reusing your picture was.
You can, and we will consider it on its own merits rather than applying a rule. Where you are in the UK or the EU this is a request under the GDPR's right to erasure; a 64-bit fingerprint of a photograph of you is arguably personal data, and we are not going to argue the point in order to avoid answering you. Write to hello@scamby.app and say what you want and why. If we decline, we will say why in a sentence you can disagree with, not a form letter.
Reporting is unauthenticated, so someone can submit a fingerprint out of spite. Two things limit the damage: nothing a stranger submits is matchable until a person approves it, and a rejected entry stays rejected. If you think an entry was filed to harass you, say so — that is a different claim from "this is my photograph" and it is handled differently.
Last updated 27 October 2026. The policy behind this page is docs/MODERATION.md in the repository, including the review criteria and how long an unreviewed report survives.
