Scamly — Fake Shop & Scam Site Checker
Privacy ·
Check a shop before you pay: domain age, missing refund policy, bank-transfer-only checkout, fake timers.
- Domain age from the official registry
- Countdown timers judged across visits
- An 18-language lexicon, checked in one pass
The idea
A fake shop is rarely wrong about one thing. It is a two-week-old domain, with no refund policy, a bank-transfer checkout and a countdown that resets — and each of those on its own is forgivable. Scamly scores the pile.
The signals
- —Domain age, straight from the registry — the single most useful fact about a shop
- —A known brand's name in a domain that brand doesn't own
- —Lookalike addresses: punycode, mixed scripts, digit-for-letter swaps
- —Bank-transfer-only or crypto-only checkout
- —Missing terms, privacy, refund or shipping policies — and policy links that go nowhere
- —No way to reach a human: no email, no phone, no address
- —Countdown timers that already expired, or restart for every visitor
- —"27 people are viewing this", "only 2 left in stock"
How it judges a countdown
A timer that says four minutes left is meaningless on its own. Scamly remembers what the timer said the last time you were on that page, so a countdown that is still at four minutes tomorrow is caught for what it is.
The one network call it makes is an RDAP lookup for the domain's registration date. Everything else is read off the page you are already on.