Safety guide
Keep your business off the internet.
How to post without giving away where you live, and what to do if someone comes after you anyway.
Before you post: a seven-step check
Steps 1 to 4 come from the Department of Homeland Security’s doxing guide. Steps 5 to 7 are our advice, because DHS lists forums among the places doxers pull information from. Nothing you tick here is saved or sent.
Doxing, and how to lower your risk
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What doxing is
Doxing means gathering someone's personal information and releasing it publicly to hurt them, for example to humiliate, stalk, steal their identity or target them for harassment.
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Forums are a common source
DHS lists web forums, blogs and discussion boards among the common places doxers pull information from, along with social media posts and public records.
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Keep personal details off profiles
To lower your doxing risk, take your address, birth date and phone number off your profiles, turn on privacy settings, and limit location tracking in apps.
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Lock down your accounts
Use two-step verification and a strong, different password for every account.
If someone’s harassing you
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Don't feed the bully
The FTC's cyberbullying advice for young people: don't respond, block the person if you can, and if it keeps happening, save the evidence and get help.
Source: Federal Trade Commission, Stand Up to Cyberbullying (video transcript)
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Report it here too
Use the report option on the post, or email us. Harassment breaks the house rules even when it starts somewhere else.
See: How moderation works
If you’ve been doxed
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If you're doxed, save everything
If you're doxed, save emails, voicemails and texts, take screenshots of the posts, and ask the site to take the information down.
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Report threats to police
If you've been threatened or feel criminally harassed, report it to local law enforcement as well as to the site where it happened.
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You can also tell the FBI
CISA suggests considering a report to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) after a doxing incident.
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Keep your originals
IC3 doesn't accept attachments, so keep your original evidence somewhere safe in case investigators ask for it.
Danger
If you’re threatened
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Immediate danger means 911
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 or your local police.
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Where violent threats go
Tips about violent crime, terrorism and national security threats go to the FBI's National Threat Operations Center at tips.fbi.gov. IC3 handles cyber-enabled crime like scams and hacking.
Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Directing Your Complaint
If intimate images are shared
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Stopping re-uploads
The FTC suggests hashing removed images so they can't be reposted, and sharing those hashes with NCMEC's Take It Down service for minors or StopNCII.org for adults.
Source: Federal Trade Commission, Complying With the Take It Down Act (May 2026)
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On this forum
Ask us to remove it. You don’t need an account, and we’ll act within 48 hours of a valid request.
More tools, including StopNCII.org and Take It Down, are on Get help.