How bribery.fyi works

Yes. You need no account, no login, and no email. You are never asked who you are. If you choose to leave contact details they are stored separately and never published.

No. We never store your IP address — only a salted one-way hash used to slow spam. The address itself is never written down anywhere.

Phone numbers, emails and names are automatically stripped, then a human reviews it. Once approved it joins an open, anonymized public record — the office and the place, never a person.

No. We record the office and department, never an individual. A report that names a specific official is held for review, and the name is not published.

Reports are anonymous first-hand accounts. bribery.fyi publishes no name of any alleged giver or taker of a bribe, and is not affiliated with any government or agency. If you leave no contact details, there is nothing that identifies you.

Please report it — refusals are the most hopeful signal in the data. Roughly a third of people who were asked refused and still got their work done, and every refusal on the record makes the next one easier.

The site works in English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and Punjabi — and you can write the description in any language.

Yes. Pick the rough month, or "Earlier". Only a coarse date is kept, never a precise time that could point back to you.

Approved reports become an open, searchable, anonymized dataset — which departments, which cities, how much was demanded, and how often people refused — so patterns of everyday bribery become visible.