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Scamadviser
By Maltego Technologies
Quickly identify untrustworthy domains and entire scam networks.
Scamadviser Transforms for Maltego
Scamadviser helps over 3 million consumers every month to discover if a website is legitimate or a possible scam. It analyzes more than 1 million new domains every month and shares online fraud data with more than 50 partners from law enforcement, tax agencies, brand protection organizations, and consumer authorities.
Scamadviser’s Maltego integration helps law enforcement, tax agencies, brand protection organizations, and consumer authorities to better identify possible scam networks. Each domain is given Scamadviser’s unique Trust Score, helping you determine the reliability of a website. You can also use Scamadviser’s Maltego integration to filter domains on several criteria like Trust Score, Popularity, Country where the service is hosted, Tags and Keywords and much, much more.
The Scamadviser Transform for Maltego allows users to retrieve the following information based on each domain name:
- Trust Score: Rates any domain based on more than 40 datapoints with a trust score from 1 (very, very likely a scam) to 100 (very likely legit).
- Block Search Engines: Check whether the domain blocks search engines. A large percentage of sites search on Scamadviser cannot be found via search engines.
- Consumer Reviews: The average number of stars and total number of reviews found on external review sites such as Google Shopping.
- Trust Rules: Explains why a domain has been given a certain rating.
- Redirected Domains: A list of domains linking to the domain being investigated.
- Meta Data: Such as the title, description and keywords used.
- IP Data: The IP address on which the domain is hosted, related ISP, hosting country and number of domain names on the server which are considered suspicious versus the total number of domain names.
- Tags & Keywords: Narrow your search by looking up keywords.
Data available for Maltego Enterprise free trial and data subscription: Keywords, tags, whois information, hosting company, countries, and domains.
Data available for Maltego CE and Pro free trial: Domain annotation, extract key words, extracts tags, and retrieve html keywords, network information, redirecting domains, and trust rules.
Typical Users of Scamadviser Data
- Law Enforcement
- Tax Agencies
- Brand Protection Organizations
- Consumer Authorities
Integration Benefits
Website Trust Score Rating
Combine Search Criteria to Narrow Specific Sites
Identify Potential Scam Sites
Leverage Scamadviser Data for
Scam Investigation
Brand Protection
Consumer Protection
Resources
Data subscriptions for Maltego
Simplified Data Access for Maltego Customers
1. What is Scamadviser?
Scamadviser helps over 3 million consumers every month to discover if a website is legitimate or a possible scam. It analyzes more than 1 million new domains every month and shares online fraud data with more than 50 partners from law enforcement, tax agencies, brand protection organizations, and consumer authorities.
ScamAdviser helps consumers make their online shopping decisions by rating websites with the ScamAdviser Trust Score. The algorithm of ScamAdviser utilizes more than 40 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.
2. What are Active Scans and Passive Checks?
The Scamadviser data is provided in two ways:
- Passive Checks: Only returns the data of domains already analyzed by Scamadviser in the last 30 days.
- Active Scans: Returns data for all requested domains. Domains not yet analyzed (or with data older than 30 days) will be automatically retrieved.
3. What can I do with Scamadviser data?
4. What are Scamadviser data subscriptions?
The Scamadviser data subscriptions are monthly subscriptions providing access to the ScamAdviser Web API.
The Scamadviser Transform for Maltego allows users to retrieve Trust Score, Block Search Engines, Consumer Reviews, Trust Rules, Redirected Domains, Meta Data, Tags & Keywords, and IP Data.
5. Is there free trial available for Scamadviser Data?
All Maltego editions get a taste of Scamadviser data without any API key requirement. Please see Access section for more details.
With Scamadviser Transforms, Maltego CE and Pro users can perform domain annotation, extract key words, extracts tags, and retrieve html keywords, network information, redirecting domains, and trust rules.
Via the Enterprise trial, additionally to the queries mentioned above, users can search for keywords, tags, whois information, hosting company, countries, and domains.
6. How can I access or purchase Scamadviser data in Maltego?
7. Are there any other requirements to access Scamadviser data in Maltego?
For complete access to Scamadviser data, you need:
- A valid commercial license edition (Maltego One, Classic or XL) and,
- Maltego Scamadviser Data Subscription
Furthermore, to use Maltego data subscriptions, you must first agree to the Maltego Technologies License Agreement, Maltego Technologies Data Integration Terms & Conditions, as well as data provider Terms of Use. Each data subscription purchase is subject to a Know Your Customer (KYC) vetting process according to the respective terms of use for the data in question. Due to the often-sensitive nature of data, access is generally reserved for vetted organizations with legitimate use cases commonly associated with organizations. Thus, after placing an order request in the web-shop or via our sales team, customers need to undergo a KYC vetting process before the purchase can be completed and they can make use of the data subscription.
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About Scamadviser
Scamadviser 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 more informed decisions before buying online.
Scamadviser rates websites with the Scamadviser Trust Score. The algorithm of Scamadviser utilizes more than 40 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 more.
For more information, visit www.scamadviser.com or contact sales@scamadviser.com.
