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Links & Tips
Why do we want to help? By raising awareness against scammers, we can make a change! Check bellow our top tips & links to stay safe from scammers.
Are You Scam Victim? Need a Help
Ask a Question →Check your brokers or institutions websites using www.who.is
What information should you look for and why?
1. Important Dates > Registered on.
The older the website is, the more trustworthy it appears. Many fake companies tend to present themselves as veterans, while their domains might exist only for a couple of months.
Experience has shown that most of the “suspicious” domains have been registered since 2020, following the timeline of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Trust Pilot
Trust Pilot is an online platform that allows customers to review a business from which they’ve purchased a product or a service. It aims at connecting businesses and consumers through genuine feedback and it is completely legitimate.
How to access Trust Pilot?
1.Go to https://www.trustpilot.com/
2. Copy and paste the company`s URL in the search box
Blacklist checker
Check if your broker/company/institution is on a blacklist by searching the Scam Doctor Database
Scam Doctor has one of the biggest databases with all scam companies. The database is created organically, by the scam victims like yourself, who have reported the scamming companies.
By clicking https://scam-doctor.com/blacklist/ it will display the list of scam companies and the list is updated regularly.
Reverse Image Search
Reverse Image Search is used mostly by journalists and photographers in order to help them check whether someone has copied their image and used it without their consent.
How does this help with spotting a scammer?
Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web. There are numerous copycat websites, copying and using legit websites integrity for their fraudulent actions.
To check a website using Google Reverse Image Search, follow these 3 easy steps:
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Upload an image if you have one or take a screenshot by clicking on the upload an image
3. Click on the Show Matching Images
Once you have clicked on the matching images, you will the number of the same image used online.
Pay attention to grammar
Companies with legitimate websites will take great care to have a professional team checking their spelling and grammar before publishing anything online. Scamming companies, on the other hand, have the urge for quick action and for putting pressure on all kinds on their potential victims.
Steps to check the grammar in the following three easy steps:
1. Open https://www.grammarly.com/
2. Click New
3. Copy and paste the website content
4. Notice the number of grammar and typing mistakes
Scan for plagiarism
Plagiarism checker https://plagiarismdetector.net/ is used mostly for Academic, Legal, and Professional purposes. By using it to check the website content, it can show extra levels of plagiarism which is very common scammers practice.
How does https://plagiarismdetector.net/ help with spotting a scammer?
Just like Google Reverse Image Search, the plagiarism checker helps check whether the company you are interested in is a copy of some other legit or fake company. To check the plagiarism, follow these easy steps:
1. Go to https://plagiarismdetector.net/
2. Enter text to check Plagiarism
3. Check Plagiarism -> Visit the displayed link of an original website
Run a Virus Scan
Why should you run a virus scan of the company’s website you want to work with?
Unfortunately, hacker attacks have multiplied since 2020, while the number of websites has multiplied as well. It is very common that hackers attack companies aiming to either get their database or, more often, to cause some illegal activities on behalf of rival business. These attacks are mostly run by a competitor’s company and you might be giving your information to a hacked company that actually has a legitimate status.
Steps to check whether the company you want to work with is virus-free:
1. Go to https://www.isithacked.com/
2. Copy and paste the website’s URL
2. Enter text to check Plagiarism
3. Click on Check Your Site and it will show you: cloaking, status codes, spammy-looking links, I-frames, and blacklist checks
4. Go to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url -> Copy and paste the website URL and check :
– Detection
– Details
– Links
– Community
Add blocker as a prevention for the appealing banner campaigns
Victims of a Scam are more prominent to fall for the scam again. Reasons for these are more than just of those that fall under our conscious decisions. Namely, all of the banner campaigns intended to scam a person, very often use manipulative visual tactics. Some of those are blinking letters, timers, any form of the countdown, gamification, and other “funny “ ways to grab your attention.
To make sure this won’t happen to you (again), install Add blocker https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions for Google, using these 3 simple steps:
1. Add to Chrome
2. Add an extension
3. Exit the last page asking for donations if there is no donation you want to leave
Email Checker
Why should you run a virus scan of the company’s website you want to work with?
Unfortunately, hacker attacks have multiplied since 2020, while the number of websites has multiplied as well. It is very common that hackers attack companies aiming to either get their database or, more often, to cause some illegal activities on behalf of rival business. These attacks are mostly run by a competitor’s company and you might be giving your information to a hacked company that actually has a legitimate status.
You can do it in a three easy steps:
Just like Google Reverse Image Search, the plagiarism checker helps check whether the company you are interested in is a copy of some other legit or fake company. To check the plagiarism, follow these easy steps:
1. Got to https://www.zerobounce.net/
2. Click on the email validator
3. Copy and paste the email you wish to check
