Our Network — CyberAware UK & CyberAware GCC
One team, one mission, two regional sites — so the guidance you read is built for the banks, apps, reporting routes and laws where you actually live.
Who We Are
CyberAware is a small, independent team of former UK law-enforcement investigators and OSINT researchers. We build free, plain-English resources to help families, schools and communities spot and avoid online scams. We operate two regional sites under the same mission:
Both sites share the same core team and methodology, the same commitment to independent advice, and the same goal: reduce harm from online fraud by making threat intelligence usable for ordinary people.
Why Two Websites?
Scam tactics overlap globally, but local context matters:
- • Different banks, apps and brands being cloned
- • Different official reporting channels — Action Fraud in the UK vs local police and CERTs in the Gulf
- • Different languages and cultural expectations
- • Different regulatory environments and consumer protections
Mixing UK and Gulf advice in one place can confuse readers and reduce trust — so we run a UK-focused site with UK-specific alerts, reporting links and examples, and a GCC-focused site with Gulf-specific scams, official contacts and Arabic translations.
What We Do
Independence and Funding
- ✅ Independent of any bank, telco, government or vendor.
- ✅ We do not sell personal data — ever.
- ✅ We link official, free or not-for-profit resources first; where we reference commercial products we only do so when genuinely useful and always with full disclosure.
- ✅ No paid placement. Scammers and their enablers cannot buy coverage, removal or a favourable "checker" result.
- ✅ Our work is funded through small, clearly-disclosed affiliate commissions and voluntary reader support. Affiliate links never change our advice.
See our affiliate disclosure and editorial policy for the detail.
Data Sources and Methodology
Our alerts and analysis draw on a range of open and licensed sources, including:
- • National fraud and cybercrime reporting data (e.g. Action Fraud in the UK)
- • Public alerts from national CERTs and law-enforcement agencies
- • Dark-web and phishing-domain monitoring feeds
- • Community reports submitted via our websites and channels
We triage and validate reports using standard OSINT and digital-forensics practices, then publish only what is useful and safe for the public. Read our full methodology →
Contact
For general enquiries, press or partnership questions: use our contact page.
🇬🇧 UK: Report to Action Fraud and contact your bank immediately.
🌍 GCC: Contact your local police / national fraud reporting centre and your bank's fraud team — use official numbers from their websites or apps.
Both sites link to each other, so switching regions is easy.