Phishing and attacks using fake websites are the order of the day. When we receive an email, we have to avoid going to the links that appear in it if we have doubts as to what the origin may be. If we press it, and for example they ask us for the Google login, we must immediately suspect if we are already logged in on that device, or if the automatic filling of the username and password does not work. Now, a website allows you to get out of doubt.
The website, called scamdoc.com, offers a service that is practically essential today. By simply entering a web address or an email address , the service will give us a final level of confidence that can help us determine if the web page is trustworthy or not. With email we have other alternatives to know the identity in an email.
For this, the web uses an algorithm developed by HERETIC (founder of Signal-Arnaques) that integrates a system called ScamPredictor . Among the variables analyzed is whether the website is recently created or the links it has, among many other variables. The web, unfortunately, does not detail exactly how the algorithm works, but it seems to work quite well.
For example, if we put adslzone.net , our website shows 99% reliability , since it analyzes a multitude of variables such as that the website is popular, that the domain is very old, we have HTTPS, and our position in the Alexa ranking is high.
However, we can take another website, whose name we are going to censor, which is the opposite. The portal has HTTPS, like practically all websites on the Internet today, but on the contrary, we found a lot of red alerts . For example, the web has many negative reviews on the Internet, and its creation is very recent. The algorithm even predicts that the life of that domain will be very short.
The algorithm is quite clear in most cases, where it offers a very high level of confidence (99% is the maximum, where even Google does not reach 100%), while in the one that they are not to be trusted, it does not hesitate for a second, and offers scores below 10%. In some cases you may be hesitant, as you may not have enough data to make a decision. In some recently created websites , even if they are real, it can also show a low percentage, so keep that in mind.
Fortunately, even in these cases, having doubts about the web will make a lot of sense because, if it does not show a percentage of more than 75 or 90% of entry, then we will be facing a doubtful portal. Most of the doubts are generated with portals that require personal data, and here we can easily discover whether or not it is a real website.
