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Scamadviser

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Scamadviser Reviews Summary

Scamadviser has a rating of 2.8 stars from 345 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Scamadviser most frequently mention credit card and email address. Scamadviser ranks 2nd among Consumer Protection sites.

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returns
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South Africa
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I have a small beauty salon in South Africa which I operate from my home. Some how they got my website and rated it badly as the website is new. My business is operating since 2016. My full personal information is on display for the whole world to see and even though I increased the security on my website they still somehow have it displayed. Clients have to physically come to my premises so I don't know how it can be a scam. You can find me on google. I have the necessary SSL certificate which they say I don't have. My website is part Canadian, part South African. I use a gmail email so that's a sign that I am a scam apparently. I have bought the site from domains.co.za and use their SSL and privacy plus have reviews on google and my FB page. I contact these scammers to take me off and they just ignore my request. I mean Hello? Who actually do they think they are. I must now close the webpage to get rid of them? Bunch of scammers. No one even buys anything on my page as they have to come to my premises. They even target a small home business.

Date of experience: March 24, 2019
Deb H.
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I searched my own online business. It rates me in the high 70s after a year in business. The cons to their reports is that it takes valid saftey measures instituted by whois and makes a business look shady!

My market and domain go through a well known worldwide platform and the company is in another country. My privacy is protected and the company info provided instead. They are flagging normal safety measures put in place by legitimate companies. That is wrong and to me verges on slander.

No photo needed. Search sparklyoccasions.com

I say go and look at a shops page. Go to the bottom and if you see logos or a statement: powered by Wix, shopify, Godaddy etc, then it is a legit site!!

Go to my FB page and message those customers who left reviews.

It's that simple.

Date of experience: March 15, 2019
Tennessee
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Their reviews are fake. They point our website as being in the Philippines and highly risky.
We are located in California for the past 19 years with fine reputation, we even sell in
Amazon. A lawsuit should be considered against this fake site.

Date of experience: December 6, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Avoid
April 29, 2018

Scamadvisor.com is actually a scam itself, set up by a couple of dodgy businessmen that make money from fake petition sites. They set this up to try and discredit many other sites and to make out their petition pages are genuine when they're not. They have a hard neck badmouthing other pages when scamming the public is what they themselves do.

Date of experience: April 29, 2018
New York
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Our website is scored by Scamadviser for a poor reputation because we have privacy
Domain. We are in business for 10 years without 1 complaint to us,, on Google nor anywhere else. Do not trust there reviews for anyone. THEY ARE FAKE

Date of experience: March 2, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Lots of false FB ads for fake shops. Use scamadviser most of the time to sort the wheat from the chaff. Nice one.

Date of experience: February 28, 2018
Malaysia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It always gives fake
February 15, 2018

Well this telling my website fake and low trust and i never scam even my site is professional but i don't know who told them my website is scam totally stupid

Date of experience: February 15, 2018
Ohio
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Norton Antivirus Blocked JSCoinminer Attack On 2-4-18

I was on scamadviser.com looking at the site data for a site called dailyglib.com that's scraping data.

I clicked on the bottom link that said
"If you are the owner of the site in the report and would like to report to us your site rating is incorrect click here"

As soon as I clicked on the link Norton protected my computer from this attack.

Date of experience: February 4, 2018
Viet Nam
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Bad bad bad website
January 26, 2018

It always give the wrong results. One scam website I checked it said 100% safe so it is unbelievable

Date of experience: January 25, 2018
Georgia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I use a 1and1 server. Because that server is out of Germany. They say business is suspicious, compromised server. I contacted them a few weeks ago. Told them I am a USA based company, My site has big name advertisers that I am an affiliate to. They would not be doing business with me if I was a scam. And I have no personal info. On visitors, Not even a shopping cart. No payments are made on my site. They emailed me back saying it's a new business started in Dec 2017. And they don't personally look at sites. In time it may get a better rating. They show up on the top of most searches putting doubt in peoples minds that I'm legit. There should be a way to sue them for slander!

Date of experience: January 19, 2018
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I wrote to them
January 10, 2018

They asked me to verify my site? I done this and had no reply - yes my site does say its in America & that the server is hidden, but i use go daddy and i cant tell them to display there server, so we are not fake i have ssl certificate

Date of experience: January 10, 2018
India
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scamadviser is a scam itself. They give less rating for small and new business and ruins them. If you are a new company and needs better rating, you have to pay them

Date of experience: November 28, 2017
Ghana
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Crypto bubble is a scam
November 10, 2017

I want to know if crypto bubble limited is scam or not? They fail to pay withdrawal but collect deposit. They are thieves and use the money for terrorism. Please avoid them.

Date of experience: November 9, 2017
Illinois
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Cannot be trusted
October 18, 2017

Do not trust scamadviser.com, they rate small business low to give big business high review. Don't trust, they want you to pay money so that your ratings go high.

Date of experience: October 18, 2017
Italy
1 review
4 helpful votes
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SCAM
October 17, 2017

They try to let you put your cc card's data in their site to be sure of your identity for a date. DON'T DO THAT!

This should be signed as SCAM!

Date of experience: October 17, 2017
Turkiye
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scammers
September 23, 2017

Scammers they don't know anything about the indestry, saying we are a US based company, fake office, fake website coming from china fake prices, fake photos from other sites, there BTC wallets are empty the one that you pay too, and they can accept paypal! LMAO

Date of experience: September 23, 2017
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam
September 20, 2017

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Date of experience: September 19, 2017
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Auto trading software
August 27, 2017

As for the AutoMoneyMaker.co site its a new site. And its only one year old. I've never trusted Scamadviser! These people do not use there own services they use them from whois! It said that the first site above is a 0% risk level (unsafe). I don't believe that. A part of me believes that the binary robot Auto Money Maker is not a scam. Yes I know that most of the auto trading softwares known as binary robots are scams. There is actually only a few good ones. I found a site called BinarySpeaker.com and it told me that all the reviews claiming that Auto Money Maker is a scam that those sites are a big scam themselves and that the software is NOT a scam. So basically I've seen a lot of sites that look FAKE where you can not give the reviews your own rating! But only the author who writes the review can that surely a red flag! But with a site like BinarySpeaker.com "did not take me long to find a site like this lol" you can give your own rating on every binary options review. So far I read that it has given useful information and has not misled people. That's never been said about any site giving reviews on binary options! To me it can not possibly be a lie!

Date of experience: August 26, 2017
Hong Kong
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scamadviser
August 22, 2017

Scamadviser treats my domain as a scam simply because my domain is Hong Kong based.

I can find a lot of bad reviews against Scamadviser. Why google does not oust it?

Date of experience: August 21, 2017
India
1 review
5 helpful votes
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They themselves put reviews on other companys and ask money to remove the reviews, do not trust the scam adviser its a business they do with companies

Date of experience: August 21, 2017

From the business

Scamadviser helps over 2.5 million consumers every month to discover if a website is legitimate or a scam.

The website was founded in 2012 by Marc. Marc had bought golf clubs online and quickly discovered they were fake. He tried to get his money back to no avail. Out of frustration, he started Scamadviser to help online shoppers make well-informed decisions before buying online.

Scamadviser helps consumers making their online shopping decisions by rating websites with the Scamadviser Trust Score. The algorithm of Scamadviser utilizes 40 independent data sources. From the IP address of the webserver, the availability of contact details on the website, the age of the URL, ratings on review sites, and much much more.

The Scamadviser formula is constantly evolving and is continuously being improved. If you feel a website Trust Score is not correct, please feel free to contact us.

Scamadviser is since 2018 part of the Ecommerce Foundation, an independent organization working with NGOs,...


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