Editorial Policy & Sources
SafeOrScamCheck publishes educational scam guides to help people verify suspicious messages, links, websites and payment requests before they act.
Primary-source first
When a guide discusses a specific scam trend, we prefer primary consumer-protection and law-enforcement sources such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, official government agencies and the organization being impersonated.
Clear separation from the automated checker
Educational articles explain scam patterns and verification steps. The automated checker separately produces a warning-signal score from the input provided. Neither the articles nor the score are proof that a person, message, website or transaction is safe or fraudulent.
Updates and corrections
Scam methods change quickly. Guides are updated when important new patterns or official guidance emerge. If a factual error is identified, it should be corrected rather than preserved for consistency.
What we do not claim
- We do not guarantee that a website or message is safe.
- We do not claim to access private bank, court, government or company records.
- We do not present the warning-signal score as a probability of fraud.
- We do not claim to run suspicious destination pages in a malware sandbox.