How this site works

The checker does not look anything up. There is no database of safety ratings behind it. When you enter a domain, nothing is fetched, queried or scored — the name is a label for your own notes. Every point in the result comes from an item you ticked after checking it yourself, and every item tells you how to check it.

Why it is built that way. Sites that return a confident safety percentage for any address you type have not examined that address. The number is generated. In this market that number gets acted on by people about to send money, and a fabricated verdict — in either direction — is worse than no verdict. Telling someone a fraudulent site is safe causes the loss it appeared to prevent.

The weighting. Sixteen checks, weighted by how strongly each one distinguishes a legitimate operator from a fraudulent one. Three are marked decisive: guaranteed returns, payment only by irreversible methods, and performance published without a maximum drawdown. Failing any one of those caps the result regardless of the total, because they are not offset by convenience features.

What a result means. That a vendor behaves like a real business, or does not. It is not a prediction of profitability, and no checklist can be. A completely legitimate trading product can still lose you money — that is what trading is.

Vendor reports. A report is published only when every check has actually been performed against that vendor, and it publishes the checks that did not pass alongside the ones that did, each with what was observed, a source link and the date. Partial reports are not published: a page of blank rows reads as a list of failures, which would be a verdict nobody earned.

Corrections. Vendors change their sites, and a report is a snapshot of one date. If a finding here is wrong or out of date, it will be corrected and the date changed. The findings are worth exactly as much as your own verification of them.