Check a Website
Our automated trust checker is live. It reads a website's domain age, hosting, reviews and technical signals and turns them into a plain-English verdict. Here's what it looks at — and how to look into a site by hand too. A first-time check of a site we've never seen can take up to half a minute while we gather the data; after that it's instant.
Domain age & registration
How long the address has existed and what the public WHOIS record says about who registered it.
Hosting & infrastructure
Where and how a site is hosted, and whether it shares tell-tale infrastructure with known scam domains.
Reviews & reputation
Independent reviews and mentions from off the site itself, weighed against the risk of manufactured feedback.
Technical signals
The technical fingerprints a site leaves that recur across known scam sites, not just whether it has a padlock.
Reports & track record
Whether the site already carries a reputation for trouble in scam reports and complaint records.
These are the same signals we describe in full on How We Score a Website — that page sets out how they combine into a rating, and what a tool like ours can and cannot tell you. The methodology is public so the reasoning behind every verdict is out in the open.
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Check a site by hand, too
Our guides walk through the same checks by hand: how to recognise a scam website covers the signals the checker reads, safe ways to pay covers the one choice that stops many scams cold, and if something has already gone wrong, how to get your money back sets out what to do first. If you already know a site's name, our scam glossary and report-a-scam directory may also help.