4 Tools to check if a website is SCAM or LEGIT

Check if a website is scam (Especially for E-commerce)

While shopping online, before hitting the Check Out button, you have to make sure that the website you’re buying from is not a fraud. But how to check if a certain website is scam or legit? There are several signs to look at such as the URL (https://) with green lock sign, as well as security signs from vendors such as VeriSign, Symantec, DigiCert and others. Website contents, reviews and comments on social media pages can help in assessing the website overall status.

If you are looking for a tool to tell if a website is scam or legit? Here are four:

1- Scam Adviser

Scamadviser.com is a free website allowing people to quickly check any website for any potential risk. Allowing online shoppers to find out those facts they really should know before using their credit card and check out. ScamAdviser sustains business through donations.

For more info check: scamadviser.com

2- Google Transparency Report

Google’s Safe browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites. According to Google, it discovers thousands of new unsafe sites every day, many of which are legitimate websites that have been compromised. When it detects unsafe sites, it show warnings on Google Search and in web browsers. You can use this tool to search and see whether a website is currently dangerous to visit.

For more info check: transparencyreport.google.com

3- Site Jabber

Similar to Scam adviser sitejabber.com provides website search capabilities, and returns rating and reviews about the queried site. In addition, it provides website listing based on category. For example, you can browse best reviewed businesses, select a category of interest and check the top rated website in this category.

For more info check: sitejabber.com

4- IsLegitsite

IsLegitSite.com is a free security tool developed by two security researchers in the end of 2016 with the aim to help others to check the legitimacy of unknown websites. It integrates many smart ways to check if a website is legit, including the website reputation powered by WOT, blacklist status, Alexa traffic rank and other meta data.

For more info check: Islegitsite.com

5- Bonus: Saudi Arabia’s Maroof

Users in Saudi Arabia have an extra site to utilize for Saudi and Middle eastern websites. Maroof.sa is a gesture from the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Investment in cooperation with the Thiqah business services for development and operation. Maroof was launched in 2016 and it is useful service to all e-commerce dealers, whether sellers or buyers. It currently lists more than three thousand e-commerce websites as well as thousands of other websites in other categories.

For more info check: Maroof.sa

 

Hope this post was useful to check if website is scam or legit. If you know more tools that were not mentioned, please add it in the comments below.

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