Scam Detector

My Website About Scams Gets 2.5M Visitors Per Month

Sorin Mihailovici
Founder, Scam Detector
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Founders
5
Employees
Scam Detector
from Toronto, ON, Canada
started May 2010
1
Founders
5
Employees
market size
$3.2B
starting costs
$11.7K
gross margin
90%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Organic social media
business model
content-library
best tools
Twitter
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
39 Pros & Cons
tips
1 Tips
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My name is Sorin Mihailovici and I am the founder of Scam Detector Media, an online media portal also known as the Wikipedia of scams. The platform exposes the world’s most notorious scams in all industries and educates the consumers on how they work and how to avoid them.

Our flagship product is the Validator®, a powerful tool that gives every website a trustworthy rank, from 1-to 100, with 100 being the safest. This way, consumers can make educated decisions when it comes to purchasing from unknown sites, especially after the e-commerce boom during the COPVID-19 pandemic. The tool can be accessed and is free. But that’s not all.

The Validator® tool has been bringing to the Scam Detector website over 2.5 million visitors a month, but what’s more interesting is that I started the whole project by leveraging a dramatic personal story after my best friend lost $30,000 to an elaborate scam.

What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?

I created Scam Detector Media and embarked on the journey of exposing fraud after my best friend was conned of all his life savings. One of the most...

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