I’m Nitesh Kumar Gupta, the Founder and Editor of The Scam Exposed, an independent site that explains phone, text and online scams to readers in the United States.
My background. I have more than 14 years of experience in SEO, Google Ads, web analytics and digital marketing. I am not a fraud investigator, lawyer or banking professional, and nothing on this site is legal or financial advice.
What I bring to this work. I have spent my career studying how websites, ads and search results earn trust. Scammers copy exactly those signals with fake sites, paid ads and spoofed brands. My main contribution here is data analysis. For our 2026 scam call statistics report, I reviewed 475,404 public FTC complaints about 263,003 phone numbers. Every guide I publish is built on public data and enforcement material from the FTC, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center and the Department of Justice, and links back to those sources so you can check them yourself.
Editorial independence. The Scam Exposed does not accept payment to add, change or remove any listing or article. We run no ads and use no affiliate links. Correction requests are handled only through our corrections policy.
I run The Scam Exposed as a sole proprietorship from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, and write mainly for readers in the United States. The site is not a government agency or law enforcement body, and I am personally responsible for everything published here.
