About CheckMyLink

CheckMyLink is an easy-to-use online tool which helps you to determine whether a website is likely to be legitimate or a scam. Simply type in the address of the website you want to check, and your results will appear within seconds.

CheckMyLink is provided in Ireland by Cyber Skills in collaboration An Garda Siochana and other partners including SFI research centres CONNECT (Centre for Future Networks), CONFIRM (Centre for Smart Manufacturing) and LERO (Centre for Software) and Trend Micro. The service cleverly uses an algorithm to provide a trust score based on more than 40 data sources as well as thousands of reports of malicious websites from law enforcement agencies, regulators and consumer brands every week.

The tool was originally devised in 2012 and has been the subject of continuous improvement by the ScamAdviser technical team ever since.