If It Goes Wrong: Scammed, Leaked or Threatened

If your feet pics are leaked, you are scammed or someone threatens you, stop replying, do not pay, do not delete anything, screenshot everything, then block and report. After that, follow the playbook below that matches what happened. Every route on this page is free.

This is for adults. If you are under 18, tell a trusted adult and go to the police; in Canada, Cybertip.ca handles cases involving under-18s.

First, in every case

In every case, do five things before anything else, in this order.

If you are in immediate danger, call your emergency number first: 911 in the United States and Canada, 999 in the United Kingdom, 000 in Australia. Come back to this page later.

1. Stop replying. You do not owe anyone an explanation, and every reply gives a scammer or blackmailer something to work with.
2. Do not pay and do not send anything more. No money, no gift cards, no extra photos. The FBI’s advice to sextortion victims (opens in a new tab) is direct: “Do not send any money or additional content to the blackmailer.”
3. Do not delete anything. Not the chat, not the account, not the photos. Deleting can destroy the evidence police and platforms need. If you want to go quiet, the RCMP suggests (opens in a new tab) deactivating accounts rather than deleting them.
4. Screenshot everything. The messages, the person’s profile and username, any payment details, links, dates and times. Save copies somewhere other than the app.
5. Then block and report. Block the person, and report them to the platform where you met, with your screenshots.

This happens to a lot of people, and it is not your fault. Police, government fraud centers and nonprofits help adults in exactly this situation without charging anything, and they take reports whether or not you lost money.

Playbook 1: I’ve been scammed out of money or content

If you have been scammed, the fastest win is usually your bank, card issuer or payment app, contacted the same day. The US Federal Trade Commission tells people (opens in a new tab) to report the payment “immediately” and ask for it to be reversed or refunded. Then report the scam to your country’s fraud center.

1. Do the five steps above.
2. Contact whoever moved the money, using the phone number on the back of your card or inside your own logged-in account, never a number or link a stranger sent you:
   • Card or bank transfer: your bank or credit union. Ask them to reverse the payment.
   • Payment app: report the payment inside the app and ask for a reversal.
   • Gift card: call the company that issued the card, using the number on the back, and tell them it was used in a scam. The FTC says (opens in a new tab) to keep the card and the receipt.
   • Crypto: contact the exchange or ATM operator and report the transaction as fraud. The FTC says crypto payments “can be hard” to get back, because they lack the legal protections cards have.
3. Report it to the platform. If the sale happened on a marketplace, it holds the records of the conversation and the payment. FeetFinder’s support route is Email; Feetify’s is Email. How each handles a disputed sale, as its terms state: FeetFinder, Referenced, not described; Feetify, Referenced, not described.
4. Report it to your country’s fraud center:
   • United States: ReportFraud.ftc.gov (opens in a new tab) or 1-877-FTC-HELP.
   • Canada: the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (opens in a new tab), reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca or 1-888-495-8501, and your local police.
   • England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Report Fraud, reportfraud.police.uk (opens in a new tab) or 0300 123 2040. It replaced Action Fraud (opens in a new tab) on December 4, 2025.
   • Scotland: Police Scotland (opens in a new tab) on 101.
   • Australia: Scamwatch (opens in a new tab), and ReportCyber at cyber.gov.au (opens in a new tab) for a police report.
5. Watch for the follow-up scam. The FTC warns (opens in a new tab) that recovery scammers target people who have already lost money, promising to get it back in return for an upfront fee, and says not to pay anyone upfront for refund help. Real recovery goes through your bank, your platform and the agencies above.

If the platform itself took action against you, for example removing content or holding earnings, FeetFinder publishes an appeals route: Email appeals@feetfinder.com within six months of the decision. Every appeal gets a human-led review. No decision timeline is stated.. Feetify publishes no appeals route.

Playbook 2: My photos have been reposted or leaked

If your feet pics have been reposted or leaked, your main tool is copyright. In general, the person who takes a photo owns its copyright, which lets you ask a site or its host to take a copy down. The tools built for intimate images usually do not apply to foot photos; that is explained below.

1. Do the five steps above. Screenshot the page, its full web address and the account that posted it.
2. Report it on the site where it appears. Look for the site’s copyright or abuse reporting page. If the copy is on a marketplace:
   • FeetFinder has a documented takedown process: Documented. Its DMCA policy is on its record: DMCA Policy.
   • Feetify does not publish a takedown process. Contact it through its published support route, Email, and keep a copy of what you send.
3. Send a copyright takedown notice if the site does not act. In the United States this is a notice under Section 512 of the Copyright Act. The US Copyright Office explains (opens in a new tab) that a notice must identify your work, identify the copy and where it is, give your contact details, include a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized, include a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate, and be signed. The uploader can send a counter-notice; the site then restores the material in 10 to 14 business days unless you take the matter to court.
4. Outside the United States, the process differs. In Canada, the Copyright Act sets up a “notice and notice” regime: a copyright owner can send a notice that an internet provider must forward to its subscriber, but the regime is about forwarding the notice, not removing content, and a valid notice cannot demand payment or a settlement. The United Kingdom and Australia have their own processes. Many sites accept the same kind of copyright report wherever you live; check the site’s own copyright page.
5. Ask Google to remove what it can. Google’s personal information policy (opens in a new tab) covers results showing contact details such as your phone number, home address or email, and “doxxing” content: personal details shared alongside threats. Its “Results about you” tool (opens in a new tab) lets you request removal of results showing your phone, address or email. Removing a result from Google Search does not delete the page itself, so ask the site to take it down too.

When the intimate-image tools apply, and when they don’t. StopNCII.org (opens in a new tab) (for adults), NCMEC’s Take It Down (opens in a new tab) (for images taken before you were 18) and the US TAKE IT DOWN Act (opens in a new tab), which requires covered platforms to remove reported images within 48 hours, are built for nude, semi-nude or sexually explicit images. Ordinary foot photos generally fall outside them. They do apply if a leaked image shows you nude or partly nude, or in a sexual act. In Australia, eSafety (opens in a new tab) handles image-based abuse under a similar definition. If an image fits, use those tools as well; they are free. FeetFinder handles requests about intimate images shared without consent under a separate Take It Down Act policy.

Playbook 3: Someone is threatening to expose me or demanding money

If someone is threatening to expose you or demanding money, do not pay, stop all contact, keep the evidence and report it. This is sextortion, and the FBI and the RCMP give the same advice.

1. Do the five steps above. Do not negotiate, plead or argue. Save the messages, the account name and any payment details they asked you to use.
2. Do not send more images or any money, whatever deadline they give you. Deadlines are pressure, not plans.
3. Report the account to the platform where they contacted you, with screenshots. If they threaten to post on a particular site, report it there too.
4. Report it to police:
   • United States: the FBI at tips.fbi.gov (opens in a new tab) or 1-800-CALL-FBI, or the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov (opens in a new tab).
   • Canada: your local police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca or 1-888-495-8501).
   • England, Wales and Northern Ireland: your local police on 101 (opens in a new tab), or 999 in an emergency.
   • Scotland: Police Scotland on 101, or 999 in an emergency.
   • Australia: ReportCyber at cyber.gov.au for a police report.
5. If they post something, go to Playbook 2. If what they post includes your name, address or other personal details, Google’s personal information and doxxing policy applies.
6. Never pay a company to make it stop. The FBI has warned (opens in a new tab) about businesses charging fees for “sextortion help” and using deceptive tactics. Help from law enforcement and nonprofits is free.

Adults are targeted far more often than many people assume: in an FBI alert of September 2, 2021 (opens in a new tab), people aged 20 to 39 made up nearly half of the reported victims. You are not alone in this, and reporting it is the right call.

After it’s over

Once things are calm, a few changes make a repeat less likely: keep every sale and conversation on the platform, get paid before you deliver, and keep your selling identity separate from your real one. Sole Brief’s guides on how to sell feet pics without getting scammed and selling without being identified cover each of these.

This page is general information, not legal advice. For a copyright dispute or a threat that continues, the agencies above or a lawyer where you live can tell you what applies to you.

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