About Scam Detector
Scam Detector is the largest fraud prevention resource in the world. It provides unique and proprietary information, reporting, research, reviews, and analysis on websites, domain names, and e-commerce platforms, advising readers if these are safe and trustworthy.
Scam Detector is the Wikipedia of scams. Featured or quoted over the years on several major media outlets like ABC, BBC, Forbes, NBC, CBC and CNET, Scam Detector is an official contributor to the Federal Trade Commission and has been accessed in 191 countries. It updates the content daily with the newest articles so you can protect yourself from financial fraud. It is featured as of September 2023 as the #1 company to watch by USA Today.
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raud Prevention Leader
Scam Detector is operated by a team of professionals providing the best safety measures and reviews. Along with its world-class partners, our platform helps millions of people around the globe to make conscious consumer choices by exposing fraudulent practices. Through an army of writers who are fraud prevention specialists, led by senior editor Selma Hrynchuk, Scam Detector provides in-depth, complete, or comprehensive advice on how to avoid financial fraud.
Besides educational articles, Scam Detector is also proud to offer you a website validator, so you can check the trustworthiness level of any website on a scale from 1 to 100, 100 being the safest. These reviews are done with the consumer in mind, non-biased, and to add as much value as possible to the reader's final decision.
Scam Detector Website Validator
The team at Scam Detector has built our technology to root out websites that are not trustworthy and to verify those that are. Our proprietary Website Validator technology uses 53 essential data points to generate our Trust Score in order to find suspicious websites. We partner with several fraud-prevention companies and incorporate the collective data points to generate our Trust Score.
Here are a few examples of data points our Website Validator examines to generate a Trust Score:
- Proximity to Suspicious Websites
- Threat Profile
- Phishing Profile
- Malware Score
- Domain Blacklist Status
- HTTPS connection
- Domain Creation Date
- Proximity to Potentially Harmful Websites
