About
Who is behind these scores
A trust checker asks you to believe its judgement about someone else. That only works if you can see who is making it, how, and what they earn from it. This page answers all three.
Vajeeran Logeswaran
Founder and operator · reviews every published guide
Operated as a sole proprietorship (Einzelunternehmen) from Steffisburg, Switzerland.
Who runs it
CanITrustThis is run by one person, not an anonymous company. The legal operator, postal address and contact details are published in full in the impressum — not because the law is the only reason to publish them, but because a service that asks whether a shop is contactable should be contactable itself. Every guide on this site is reviewed and signed off by the named person above before it is published.
Why it exists
Most advice about spotting a fake shop is a list of warning signs and a wish of good luck. The checks that actually settle the question — is the company in a real register, how old is the domain, do the seller names on the site agree with each other — are tedious to do by hand and easy to get wrong. This service runs them, shows every finding with its source, and says plainly what it could not establish.
How a report is produced
Evidence is collected from public sources: registry data, TLS certificates, DNS records, company registers and the site's own pages. The score is then computed by a deterministic, published algorithm — the same inputs always produce the same score, and no model is asked for an opinion about it. The algorithm, every signal and its exact weight are documented on the methodology page, generated from the same registry the scanner runs.
How it makes money, and what that cannot buy
Revenue comes from paid checks and one-off paid reports. Scores cannot be bought, raised, or removed at any price, and no business has ever been offered that. If a site owner believes a report rests on incorrect evidence, the fix is to send verifiable documentation and have it re-examined — the same route open to anyone.
What a score is not
A score is an assessment of available evidence at the time of the check, not a verdict about a business. A low score means warning signals were found or key facts could not be verified; it does not assert fraud. A high score reduces risk without eliminating it. Categories that could not be evaluated are shown as unknown and never counted against a site.
Check any of this yourself
Everything above is either published on this site or verifiable against a public register. Start here: