Instant scam verdicts, free scam checking, and the intelligence behind both — RavenX exists so you can verify any online offer before money leaves your account.
RavenX is a free scam checker and threat intelligence database that exposes online scams and social media scams before they reach your wallet. We track Facebook Marketplace fraud, romance scams, crypto scams, phishing texts, fake online stores, imposter scams, fake courses, and MLM schemes — and we publish a clear verdict, a trust score, and the documented red flags for every operation in the database.
Every scheme we catalogue is checked and rated on the RavenX Trust Score, a 0 to 100 danger scale where lower means more dangerous — most confirmed scams score between 1 and 25. Alongside the score, each verdict documents the manipulation tactics behind the pitch: greed, fear, urgency, scarcity, false authority, and manufactured social proof. This is the Scam DNA system, and it matters because scam names change constantly while the psychology never does. Learn the pattern once and you are protected against every rebrand that follows.
Wondering whether a course, investment group, trading bot, or online seller is legitimate? Start with the Is It a Scam? verdict database, which answers the question directly for every scheme we track, organized into threat clusters covering lifestyle gurus, crypto scams, AI scams, business opportunity scams, MLM schemes, and social media scams. If the offer you are evaluating is not listed yet, the free RavenX analyzer breaks down any pitch on demand and flags the tactics it detects.
The Scam Defense Academy is a free set of guides covering the skills behind every verdict: how to evaluate any course, what to verify before buying any coin, how to spot AI-generated fraud and fake influencers, and why smart people get scammed in the first place. The Scam Evolution Timeline traces how these operations evolved from 2005 to today, and the full threat database holds the complete intelligence report on every tracked scheme.
Whatever the scheme, the warning signs repeat. Guaranteed returns are the loudest one — no legitimate investment can promise profit, so any pitch that does has already told you what it is. Pressure to decide immediately comes next: countdown timers, limited spots, and prices that expire tonight exist to stop you from checking. Payment method is the third tell, because scammers insist on wire transfers, gift cards, and crypto for one reason — those payments cannot be reversed. Add unverifiable testimonials, income screenshots that cannot be audited, and operators who move every conversation to private messages, and you have the profile that fits nearly every entry in our database. When two or more of these signs appear together, the odds that the offer is legitimate collapse.
Scams thrive on information asymmetry: the operator has run the play a thousand times while the target is seeing it for the first time. Publishing verdicts, trust scores, and tactic breakdowns openly removes that advantage. Every report submitted by a visitor makes the next victim harder to catch, which is why the core checker, the verdict database, and the Academy guides stay free to use.
If you have encountered a scheme we have not catalogued, report it to RavenX — every submission is reviewed and strengthens the database for the next person the scam targets. Checking an offer here takes two minutes; recovering money sent to a fraudster can take years and usually fails. Verify first.