Blueliz

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Do you know if a shopping site or company are legit??

Whenever I go shopping on the internet I always go into “scam-detector.com” to see if the site is valid and not a spam site, boy have I had a few surprises that some I thought were legit did nor receive a very good score. 😳 Something woth having a look at. Cheers have a good day 😀. Liz
 
I just went into here to check if a site was a scam. I click on search it did nothing. So just how does this work?
 
This website
www.scam-detector.com
doesn't work very well.
I just tested it with 2 reputable websites...catch.com.au. and Westpac.com.au. and it scored both less than 10 / 100 saying they were young and not trustworthy sites.
I tried Kogan.com.au and it ranked higher than westpac nut still less than 10/100.
Coles.com.au scored 2.7/100
Amazon.com.au scored 2.9/100
Guess we can't use those websites hey!!
It doesn't even find www.seniorsdiscountclub.com.au, so I guess we'll never know if this is a trustworthy site or not.
Naturally it rates itself at 100%
Did you trial this site before publishing the story I wonder?
 

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I just went into here to check if a site was a scam. I click on search it did nothing. So just how does this work?
you hit search then you hit validator in the drop down list and type in the website validator, hope this helps
 
You could use that one or there's about another 8 if you do a search for them.
Most genuine website addresses, like this one, start with HTTPS anyway.
 
This website
www.scam-detector.com
doesn't work very well.
I just tested it with 2 reputable websites...catch.com.au. and Westpac.com.au. and it scored both less than 10 / 100 saying they were young and not trustworthy sites.
I tried Kogan.com.au and it ranked higher than westpac nut still less than 10/100.
Coles.com.au scored 2.7/100
Amazon.com.au scored 2.9/100
Guess we can't use those websites hey!!
It doesn't even find www.seniorsdiscountclub.com.au, so I guess we'll never know if this is a trustworthy site or not.
Naturally it rates itself at 100%
Did you trial this site before publishing the story I wonder?
Yes I did do a trial on it but only on unfamiliar webs, never thought of doing catch or banks, mustn't be as reliable as my friend told me
 

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