Scam website lists: where to check a website before you buy
There is no single blacklist of scam websites, but there are official lists and registers to check a company and the website itself. Here is where to look and what to expect from them.
Official lists and registers
- Financial regulators' warning lists — companies and websites offering financial services without a license. Check the regulator of your country.
- Registers of licensed financial companies — whether a bank, lender, broker or insurer is licensed.
- The official business register of the seller's country — whether the company named on the website exists and when it was registered.
- Google Transparency Report — whether the website is listed as unsafe (phishing, malware).
If the website isn't listed
That doesn't make it trustworthy: scam websites often live for a few weeks and never make it into registers. Read reviews, check the seller's details, the domain age and the payment method — all of it is in the checklist.
Be careful with unofficial blacklists
Lists that don't say who maintains them and by what rules can be outdated or wrong, and are sometimes used to pressure companies. Verify such claims against the original sources — the registers above and reviews from real people.
Why ReviewNet has no blacklist of its own
We don't give “scam or not” verdicts: ReviewNet shows people's reviews of websites and a rating based on them. Recent complaints and the share of bad ratings are visible on each website's page, and category rankings let you compare websites.
Ran into scammers? Write a review and see where to report it.
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