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How to check if website is legit

11-12-2014 03:39PM

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castle

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I am looking at a UK website ,is quick way to see if this site is legit,

CTks

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#2 11-12-2014 03:46PM

advertsfox

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Search for it on VirusTotal and see how it's scored, you can also use Brightcloud.

https://www.virustotal.com/#url

http://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php

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#3 12-12-2014 06:08PM

Mesrine65

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http://www.scamadviser.com/

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#4 12-12-2014 06:11PM

zarafiq

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Also Web Of Trust:
www mywot com

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#5 12-12-2014 06:11PM

zarafiq

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Now I can post with links
https://www.mywot.com/

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#6 13-12-2014 01:53AM

Mr. G

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Look for contact information including an address and phone number. If they've no address listed anywhere, don't buy from them.

Apart from the above, always use PayPal with any websites that are not well known (Amazon & Littlewoods for example is safe), and make sure the link processing the payment when you're logging into PayPal has PayPal.com in the address bar with https at the start with the closed padlock. Be wary of phishing, especially when using websites that might not appear to be genuine.

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