About CheckAScam
CheckAScam exists to help ordinary people answer one deceptively simple question — can I trust this? — before a website, a message or an offer costs them money.
Why we built this
Scams have become a professional industry, and the people who fall for them are not careless or foolish — they are busy, trusting, and caught in a hurried moment that a fraudster engineered on purpose. Most good advice about staying safe is either buried in jargon, scattered across a dozen official sites, or written as if the reader has all afternoon. We wanted one place that is calm, clear, genuinely useful, and free of the fear-mongering that so often surrounds this subject.
So CheckAScam does two things. It publishes plain-English guides and articles that explain how scams actually work and what to do about them, and it is building a website checker that gathers the public signals about a site and hands you a straightforward summary. Both share the same principle: give you the reasoning, not just a verdict, so your own judgement gets sharper each time you use us.
What we stand for
A few commitments shape everything on the site:
- Independence. Our guidance is not for sale. We do not take payment to rate a site more kindly or to soften a warning.
- Plain language. If a nine-year-old could not follow the gist of it, we have written it badly and will fix it.
- Honesty about limits. No tool can read a fraudster's mind, and we will never pretend ours can. We tell you what our checker can and cannot know on our how we score page.
- UK-first, accurate detail. When we point you to reporting routes or consumer protections, we take care to get the specifics right for where you live.
Who we are
CheckAScam is an independent consumer-safety project run by a small team based in the United Kingdom. Our content is produced and reviewed in-house against the standards set out in our editorial guidelines, and we lean on authoritative bodies — financial regulators, the national fraud-reporting services and official cyber-security guidance — rather than passing on rumour. The website checker is under active development; you can follow what it looks at, and where it currently stands, on the methodology page.
Get in touch
We read what people send us, and reader questions often become future guides.
- General enquiries and feedback: [email protected]
- Help, corrections and reporting a rating you think is wrong: [email protected]
If you have just lost money to a scam, please do not wait to email us — the fastest help is to contact your bank straight away and then work through our recovery guide. It sets out exactly what to do, in the order that recovers the most.