Fraud Watch - Everyday Market Loops

Fraud Watch

Before you pay or invest, know who you are dealing with. List the people, firms and websites you pay. Every week Fraud Watch checks each one against official warning lists from regulators in Europe and the United States, looks for the signs scammers rely on, and tells you what it finds. Someone you trust can be told too.

Fraud Watch explained 🔰

It watches who you pay - the people, firms, trading platforms and websites you pay or invest with - against official warning lists from financial regulators in Europe and the United States, every week, and tells you when one appears on a list.
You enter up to 20 names, each with its website if you know it, and up to 20 payments you made or were asked to make - how, what for and what happened.
It looks for the signs scammers rely on: a website less than a year old, reports of lost money on the web, an offer to get lost money back, and any of these you note on a payment: "Cash handed to a courier or collected at the door", "Gold, jewelry or other valuables", "Cash put into a crypto machine", "A cryptocurrency transfer", "Gift cards", "A fee, tax or charge to get my own money out", "To get back money I lost before", "I took a loan or borrowed to pay", "They promised guaranteed or very high returns", "They pushed me to act fast", "They asked me to keep it secret from my bank or family", "They asked me to install an app that lets them see or control my screen", "They said their bank details changed, or asked me to pay a new account", "They contacted me first - an ad, a call or a message", "They paid me a small amount back first", or "An account shows gains I cannot withdraw".
Each run checks every name against the lists again. What the web says is read for up to 2 names a run, and again after 90 days. You are told each warning once - a re-check that finds the same thing tells you nothing new.
Someone you trust can be told too, by email - at most 3 emails a day - when the website of a name you watch is on a warning list, a regulator warns that someone is pretending to be a firm by that name, or you note one of these on a payment: "Cash handed to a courier or collected at the door", "Gold, jewelry or other valuables", "Cash put into a crypto machine", "A cryptocurrency transfer", "Gift cards", "A fee, tax or charge to get my own money out", "To get back money I lost before", "I took a loan or borrowed to pay", or "They asked me to install an app that lets them see or control my screen". A name that only looks like one on a list is told to you alone, to check. Every email lets them stop the next.
It never says a name is safe. Finding no warning does not prove that a name or a website is safe: a new fake platform is often on no list yet. Before you send money, check the firm through contact details you find yourself, never ones it gave you.
Anyone can check a name or a website once, above, without an account. Fraud Watch checks it again every week and tells you when it appears on a warning list.
How often: new or changed names are checked at the next hourly run if your limits allow it, then once a week. Saving never brings a run sooner than 6 hours after the last one started.
Run now starts a run by hand, once a day across all your loops, and only while none of them is in the middle of a run. Your loops also share a spending limit; a run it holds back waits for its next turn.
If 3 runs in a row fail, the loop pauses. Resume starts it again.
A daily email sums up what your loops found - one email a day, and only on a day one of them found something. It is on until you switch it off - on a loop's page once the loop is part of your plan, or, if your plan includes Loops, on your dashboard.
To stop it, use Remove your names. Its past runs are kept.

Check a name or website

Anyone can check: type the name of a firm or platform, or its website, and see what official warning lists say about it and how old its site is.

Check it yourself

Official warning lists and registers of licensed firms, to check a firm by hand. Each is free to read on its regulator's own site.

Got a message asking you to pay? Check the message itself with Scam Check.