Scam Watch

Direct answer

Scam Watch publishes the shapes of fraud reported on moving corridors — payment channels, urgency scripts, lookalike domain patterns — never named individuals or firms. A host that is not on the Official Portal Directory is described as "not official", which is a fact Waymora can check, rather than "a scam", which it cannot.

Method

1. Reports arrive as patterns: channel, script, requested payment method, lookalike host shape.
2. Waymora compares hosts against the Official Portal Directory and reports only the match result.
3. A pattern is published when it recurs across independent reports and carries no named entity.
4. Anything naming a company or person is routed to authorities instead of being published.
5. Safety content is never paywalled and never rate-limited.

Pattern

Lookalike host with an inserted word or hyphen

A host that adds words like “official”, “apply”, or a hyphen to a government name, on a suffix that is not the agency's.

Check: Compare the host, character by character, with the Official Portal Directory before you type anything.

Pattern

Payment moved off the official channel

A request to pay a government fee by transfer to a personal account, a messaging-app wallet, gift cards, or crypto.

Check: Government fees are paid on the agency's own portal or at its counter. Nothing else is a fee.

Pattern

Manufactured urgency around a deadline

A same-day deadline, a “last slot”, or a threatened cancellation that appears only in the message, never on the agency page.

Check: Reload the agency's own page. A real deadline exists there too.

Pattern

Unlicensed agent asking for original documents

A request to hand over an original passport or certificate to someone whose licence number cannot be confirmed with the regulator.

Check: Ask for the licence number and confirm it with the regulator before handing anything over.