How to know if a website is a scam?

Dmoz · Aug 24, 2013

Hello,

Can you show me Signs How to tell if a website is a scam?
To do online business, we need to know more things to avoid scam like waste of time and money or even we can lose money if we didn't a website is scam.

please share any your thoughts

Thank you

HostNurse · Aug 24, 2013

You can check the website history and reviews available about it on the internet, you can ask on forums to see if any had experience with them, in other words, do your research.

khalid · Aug 29, 2013

You can also check the ssl of the website or https .You can also search about the website in google.

RichWilliams · Aug 31, 2013

Just go through review about that site through forum discussion,online information and if you have any experience in that particular domain then it can easily help you to analysis about that site.

Andrew · Sep 2, 2013

I think checking its rating in wot chat help if you don't want to check at least get a review of that product.

aksel · Sep 3, 2013

You may use different plugins to find whether a website is trusted or not. Like web of trust plugin apart from this review of websites can help you a lot. You can also check whether there is any complaint made for website or not.

BloodMaster · Sep 21, 2013

To know the site is scam. Check it out at these sites:

Scam.com - http://www.scam.com/
Ripoff Report - http://www.ripoffreport.com/
Web of Trust - http://www.mywot.com/
McAfee SiteAdvisor - http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Hope it work for you..

kazoone · Dec 9, 2013

And one of the oldest... "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"

W0lverine8 · Nov 19, 2017

In my opinion, a legit business or website will be more than glad for you to contact them so write down ways to communicate with the company if you can find them like phone, email, and online questions and answers. Have a list of queries handy and try to get in touch with them. If there is no way for you to reach them, then this must definitely help you decide whether it is a scam. If you are able to finally contact them, make a note of all the answers they give you and compare their responses to their website or advertisement claims. False advertisement is a true method to figure out if the website is real or not.

Ticaga · Feb 20, 2025

I know this thread is old so sorry, but in my opinion, when I'm doing business online, I always check the company is registered with company house, the person is the same as on the website, phone the number to check if it connects to a human.

Then it's social media, check if they're active, and when I've done all that, I'm happy to pay for a service.

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