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McAfee says summer travelers are getting scammed more often as vacation prices climb
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/mcafee-travel-scams/
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Oh, there's a service that tells you if a page looks like a #scam site.
OK, let's check my homepage:
https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/karl-voit-at-review/"The Scam Detector’s algorithm gives this business the following rank: 14.3/100"
"karl-voit.at is a suspicious website, given all the risk factors and data numbers analyzed in this in-depth review."
WTF! 😲
I don't have any tracker, there's no JavaScript (besides hiding potential problematic optional stuff), no advertisement, domain exists for multiple decades, mostly text, ...
Well, it seems to me that #scamdetector might be a scam. 😜
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TIL
Today I learned that there's a site -- https://www.scam-detector.com -- that will give you a basic scam/no scam rating for any URL you ask it to evaluate. (Free.)
This can be useful if you're checking out an online product or service.
(Be aware, though, that it seems to use Ai in some fashion. )
I ran it on 2 domains that I own and it seems to have scraped some of the content I was using to self-describe the sites.
So, for example, if I were shady and had put "This is the most security-conscious and honest web site on the internet," it's likely those words would have been fed back to me.
So I'd say use the hard-won discretion you've developed as an adult with this -- or any other -- online service.
Still can serve a purpose for you, and their graphical "Scam detector trust index" is kewl.
#OnLineTrust #ScamDetector #Security