Reporting a message

If a message on FOOH doesn't feel right, you can report it from the conversation itself. It takes one press, you don't have to explain anything, and the person you're reporting is never told.

How to report

1. Open the conversation in Messages.
2. Press the flag icon at the top right of the thread, next to Archive and Delete.
3. Confirm. That's it — no form, no reason to pick.

The button turns into a quiet Reported label, and it stays that way when you come back later. That label is your receipt: it means we have it.

When to report

Report anything you'd want a person at FOOH to look at. You don't need to be sure, and you don't need to be right — that's our job, not yours. The things worth flagging:

• A message pushing you to register on another site to "get started", "verify your profile", or "accept the project".
• A brief that reads like it was sent to everybody — no reference to your actual work, no specifics.
• Anything involving crypto, escrow, upfront payments, or "processing fees".
• Someone asking you to move to another platform before you've agreed on anything.
• Messages that are just strange, aggressive, or off in a way you can't put your finger on.

If in doubt, report it. A report costs us a minute to read and costs you nothing.

What happens next

Someone at FOOH reads the conversation and decides what to do. Depending on what we find, that might mean nothing at all, or it might mean stopping that account from starting new conversations.

Reports against the same account land together, so if three creators flag the same sender, we see that as one case rather than three unrelated notes. That is the main reason this button exists: before it, people who spotted a scam had to write to us through the contact form, and nothing connected their message to the conversation they were worried about.

What a report does not do

• The other person isn't told. Not that you reported them, not that anyone did.
• Nothing changes in your inbox. The thread stays where it is. You can still read it, reply to it, archive it, or delete it — reporting doesn't do any of that for you.
• It isn't a block. If you'd rather not hear from them again, see the options below.
• It doesn't undo. There's no un-report button. If you flagged something by mistake, write to hello@fooh.com and say so — it's a two-line email, not a problem.

If you just don't want the request

Reporting is for messages you think are a problem for everyone. If a brief is simply not for you, the thread has gentler options:

• Decline — sends a short, polite reply you write yourself, and ends the reminders.
• Stop reminding me — ends the reminders silently. The sender is told nothing.

See Messaging and project requests for both.

What FOOH does on its own

You are not the only line of defence. Before a message from someone you've never spoken to reaches you, the platform checks a few countable things — how many unanswered requests that account already has outstanding, how fast it is sending, whether the same message body is going to lots of people, and where its links point. Anything that trips one of those is held: stored, delivered to nobody, and waiting for a person at FOOH to look at it.

Two things about that are worth knowing:

• We never read conversations that have been answered. Once you've replied to someone even once, that thread is between you and them, and the platform stops looking at it entirely. Everything above happens only before your first reply.
• Your report isn't limited that way. You can report any conversation you're in, including one you've been replying to for weeks. A scam you only recognised on the fourth message is exactly the kind we want to hear about.

Something urgent

If you've already sent money, shared bank details, or signed something, don't wait for the report queue — email hello@fooh.com directly and say what happened. We'd much rather hear about it early.