Product Scam Risk Checker

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Product Scam Risk Checker helps buyers inspect shopping pages before they purchase. Paste one or more store homepages, product pages, deal pages, category pages, or ad landing pages and the Actor checks each page plus a few same-domain trust pages for visible scam-risk and seller-trust signals.

It does not guarantee that a purchase is safe or fraudulent. It gives a practical buyer-facing verdict from observable evidence: payment wording, page language, visible price, HTTPS, contact evidence, return/refund policies, privacy/terms pages, page quality, and recognizable commerce-platform hints.

What it checks

• Page type, page title, and visible price when available
• HTTPS and unusual domain patterns
• Suspicious product wording such as replica, fake, 1:1, or mirror quality
• High-risk payment wording such as wire transfer, crypto-only, Western Union, or friends-and-family payment
• Recognized payment wording such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay
• Contact or customer-support evidence
• Return, refund, privacy, terms, shipping, and support pages linked from the checked page
• Business identity evidence such as about pages, email, phone, social links, and commerce-platform hints
• Store maturity, business identity completeness, catalog depth, policy quality, and store-specific content
• Payment safety, social proof, external trust/account surfaces, and red-flag density
• Technical trust evidence such as HTTPS and structured product data
• Thin or incomplete pages that expose little buyer-protection evidence

Input

That is the only required input. The Actor automatically checks a small number of same-domain trust pages such as Contact, Returns, Shipping, Privacy, Terms, FAQ, and Support when those links are visible.

Output

Each submitted URL produces one dataset row with the buyer-facing assessment.

Example output

{
"checkedUrl":"https://webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/static/product/31",
"domain":"webscraper.io",
"pageType":"product",
"verdict":"caution",
"riskScore":19,
"trustScore":50,
"trustLevel":"moderate",
"storeMaturityScore":39,
"businessIdentityCompleteness":"partial",
"catalogDepthStatus":"unknown",
"policyQualityStatus":"generic_or_boilerplate",
"contactQualityStatus":"usable",
"paymentSafetyStatus":"missing",
"socialProofStatus":"multi_channel_unverified",
"storeSpecificityScore":65,
"redFlagDensity":0.2,
"confidence":"high",
"contactStatus":"found",
"returnPolicyStatus":"missing",
"privacyPolicyStatus":"found",
"paymentProtectionStatus":"not_found",
"businessIdentityStatus":"clear",
"pageTitle":"Packard 255 G2",
"price":416.99,
"currency":"USD",
"summary":"\"Packard 255 G2\" scored 19/100 and needs manual caution before buying. No protected payment wording such as PayPal, card, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay was found in the fetched pages.",
"recommendedAction":"Do not rush. Check independent reviews, seller identity, refund policy, and payment protection before purchasing."
}

API example

curl"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trovevault~product-scam-risk-checker/runs?waitForFinish=1"\
-H"Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{
 "urls": [
 { "url": "https://webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/static" },
 { "url": "https://webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/static/product/31" },
 { "url": "https://webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/static/computers/laptops" }
 ]
 }'

Use cases

• Check a store homepage, product page, category page, or deal landing page before buying
• Spot obvious warning signs before entering payment details
• Generate a compact record of why a page looks safe, risky, or unclear

Limitations

• The Actor checks visible page evidence only. It cannot verify inventory, order fulfillment, chargeback outcomes, or whether reviews are real.
• Some stores render important details with JavaScript or block direct HTTP requests. Those pages may need proxy settings or future browser-backed checks.
• Absence of a warning sign is not a safety guarantee. Use protected payment methods and independent reviews before buying.