How to avoid Scam Websites
This is a very quick list on how to avoid scam websites:
1. Is it a Wordpress site?
Wordpress sites are open source (free) and very quick to set up on a Wordpress site server. The Wordpress software is resold by people the world over and so it is very easy to set up a site on a credit card or single payment, and remain anonymous.
Wordpress sites often have the Wordpress favicon (the little icon on the tab at the top of your browser) and so can be identified:
Although this is not always the case. In the image above both IndexUniverse.eu and InsideBitcoins.com are both scam sites.
2. Is the website asking an odd question such as 'scam or legit' or 'is it a scam' or something similar?
When you are reviewing something, you do not go out to ask if it is a scam. Any product that is questionably a scam is not worth reviewing. The only reason that scam websites ask these questions is because that is the question people are typing into Google and they want that specific traffic so that they can get the Lion's share of people who are not sure if something is real or no. They want people those doubtful people so that they can reassure them it is not a scam and get the affiliate fees from the scammers about to defraud them. That is what scammers do. Defraud people and pay the affiliates who led them into the trap.
If you see a review that contains a question like Bitcoin Evolution Trading App Review: Is it a Scam? then that is a fake review site being run by affiliate scammers.
3. Is the Review Written by a Real Person?
Who is writing the review? Let's have a look at InsideBitcoins.com, an infamous scammer site. They have various fake reviewers supposedly writing their fake reviews, here is an example one: Patrick Webber.
So if we right-click on Patrick's photo and choose Open Image in New Tab so as to see where the photo is hosted, we see the following:
Patrick's photo is on a site called Gravatar.com at https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3880f476ccbaf6428767e4b8699a8d1 which is a Wordpress avatar site, so nothing strange about that, let's find out about his history:
We can see from https://revonect.com/contact/Patrick%20Webber/id/fe7527704013 that Patrick, of course, works for Finixio, according to the sircles.net blog, the biggest scammer company in the UK, but let's see if we can find any evidence that Patrick is real.
There is a Patrick Weber in Germany who runs a blog on crypto, but that is not this Patrick.
There are more signs of his name on scam pages to do with the Bitcoin System Scam here:
There are more of his reviews that seem to have been removed referencing that same page again, https://game4adults.life/ which seems to have been disabled.