Methodology

Entity alert pages

Entity data comes only from an operator-uploaded export of BNM’s Financial Consumer Alert List and the SC’s Investor Alert List — never a live scrape, and never generated or embellished by an AI model. Rows are added in a capped batch and expanded gradually, so every published page carries a genuine explainer and verification checklist rather than being a bare list entry with nothing else to say.

Rows marked as a potential clone — where the listed name belongs to a real, licensed firm being impersonated — are imported but not published through the ordinary entity template, because doing so would say the opposite of what the regulator meant.

What this doesn’t do

The checker is a risk signal, not a legal or financial determination. It can miss a genuine scam it hasn’t seen the pattern for, and it can flag a legitimate message that happens to share surface features with one. Treat “Looks OK” as “nothing obviously wrong,” not “guaranteed safe” — see the checklist on every result.