You are free to post screenshots, but you also need to include a transcript in the body, or as a comment. This is a scam identification forum - For your post to be useful, it should not just be screenshots it needs to have text so that it is searchable.

Rule 6: no low effort or off topic posts.

You also cannot ask people to file reports.

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