Scam-Safety Guides
Four evergreen guides that cover the things worth getting right: how to tell a fake site from a real one, how to pay so a bad purchase can be undone, what to do the moment money goes missing, and the shape of the scams you are up against.
How to Recognise a Scam Website
The checks that separate an honest site from a staged one — the web address, the site's age, the reviews and the payment screen.
Safe Ways to Pay Online
Which payment methods let you undo a bad purchase, and which hand your money over for good. The one choice that stops many scams cold.
How to Get Your Money Back
The UK recovery playbook in order — who to phone first, how card and transfer refunds work, where to report, and the follow-up con to dodge.
Common Types of Scam Explained
A field guide to the frauds doing the most damage — phishing, fake shops, investment cons, romance scams, identity theft and newer AI tricks.
How to use these guides
Each guide is written to stand on its own, so you can jump to whichever one matches the moment you are in. If you are about to buy from a shop you have never used, start with recognising a scam website and choosing a safe way to pay. If something has already gone wrong, go straight to getting your money back — speed is what recovers it. And if you simply want to understand the landscape, the field guide to common scam types will point you to a deeper read on each.
For fresh write-ups on whatever is trending right now, the blog adds a new plain-English article regularly. And if you want to know how our website checker weighs a site's signals, that is documented on the how we score page.