Independent abuse notification · non-commercial

Defabuse Notification service
Document
Notice verification
Issued by
Defabuse
Reference format
DFB-<record>-<YYYYMMDD>

If you received a notice from us, check here whether it is genuine.

Defabuse identifies websites that have had content added without their owner’s permission, and notifies the owner and their hosting provider. Every notice we send carries a reference number, printed near the top of the email.

Do not take our word for it

You can confirm the notice yourself, in three steps.

None of them require contacting us.

  1. Search for your own site on Google

    Type site:yoursite.com into the search box. If pages appear that do not belong to you, the notice is accurate.

  2. Review recent changes on your server

    Look for recently modified files in your hosting account — particularly .htaccess and your theme or plugin directories.

  3. Review administrator accounts

    Remove any administrator you do not recognise, rotate passwords, and update your CMS and its extensions.

What we want from you

Nothing.

  • No payment
  • No passwords or access
  • Nothing to sell you
  • No reply expected

Our notices never ask you to click a link, download a file or enter any information. If you received an email that did, it did not come from us — please disregard it.

What we detect

The same page, shown differently to visitors and to search engines.

Content added without permission is hidden from ordinary visitors and served only to search engine crawlers. That is why an owner can go months without noticing.

Visitor browser

Zile Municipality — Announcements

The organisation’s own content. To the owner, everything looks normal.

no visible change
Googlebot search engine

Betting Access Address 2026 — Current

Same address, same moment, entirely different content. The site’s search reputation is redirected to somebody else’s.

injected content · illustrative

Method

How we work

Passive observation only

We read publicly available pages and consult DNS and registry records. We never attempt access to any system and do nothing beyond ordinary retrieval.

No evidence, no notice

A notice is only produced when there is a concrete, recorded finding. Suspicion is not enough.

Evidence is kept unaltered

Each observation is stored with its timestamp and the identity it was retrieved under. It is not edited afterwards.

A person approves every notice

We do not send automated bulk mail. Notices are reviewed individually and sent only after approval.

We write once

We do not write to the same address repeatedly. Tell us you would rather not hear from us and we close the record.

Records are not public

We do not publish the sites we identify. Evidence is shared only with the site owner and the relevant provider.

Contact

Reach us

About a notice
[email protected]

Questions about a notice you received, or a request for the evidence.

Report abuse
[email protected]

Including emails you believe were sent in our name.

Stop contact
[email protected]

An empty email to this address is enough. We will not write again.