1. About these terms
These terms cover your use of reviewingcenter.com. By reading the site you accept them. They are in plain English on purpose, because terms nobody can understand protect nobody.
ReviewingCenter publishes research, reviews and warnings about online financial fraud: fake brokers, cloned exchanges, trading apps built to take deposits and block withdrawals, and investment groups run through messaging apps. This page explains how we work and what to do if you think we got something wrong about you. That last part comes early rather than buried at the bottom.
We update these terms from time to time. The version in force is whatever is published here, and this one dates from 2026.
2. How we research and publish
Where our material comes from
Everything we write is built from sources anyone can check:
- Warning lists and public notices from financial regulators.
- Company registers, filings and officer records.
- Domain registration data, hosting records and the age of a site.
- Archived promotional pages, especially versions from before an operator quietly changed its claims.
- Court filings, judgments and enforcement actions where they exist.
- The platform’s own marketing: its site, its adverts, its social accounts.
- Accounts sent to us by members of the public who dealt with the operator.
How we handle reader reports
Reader accounts are a starting point, never the whole basis of an article. A single message from a stranger, however detailed, proves nothing on its own. We treat those reports as a reason to go and look, and publish only what the record supports. Anonymous accusations get the suspicion they deserve.
What our conclusions are
Where an article says a platform looks fraudulent or unlicensed, that is our honest opinion, formed from the sources we cite. Facts are things like a registration number, a regulator notice, a date. Opinion is what we think those facts add up to, and reasonable people can read the same record and disagree with us.
Articles get old
Every article is accurate as far as we know on the day it goes up. An operator can get licensed, change hands, or shut down and reappear under a new name. If you are reading something old, check the current position with the relevant regulator.
3. Right of reply and corrections
If you are named on this site, or run a business that is, you have a right to reply and we will publish it. We would rather fix a genuine error than defend one. Here is how it works.
- Write to contact@reviewingcenter.com. Use the subject line “Right of reply” so it goes straight to an editor.
- Tell us which page. Paste the full web address. If the problem is one paragraph, quote it so there is no ambiguity.
- Tell us what is wrong and what is right. Be specific. “The article is defamatory” gives us nothing to check. “We hold licence number X from regulator Y, and the article says we are unlicensed” gives us something we can verify in an afternoon.
- Send your evidence. Licence documents, registry extracts, correspondence with a regulator, a court order. Official material carries far more weight than a statement on your own letterhead.
- Tell us who you are. Your name, your role, and how you are connected to the business. We do not act on anonymous demands.
- We acknowledge within five working days and tell you who is handling it.
- We investigate, normally within twenty working days. We go back to the original sources and check your material against them. Complicated cases take longer.
- We correct what needs correcting. If we got a fact wrong we change it, and where the error was significant we add a dated note at the foot of the article. Silently editing the record is not honest.
- If we disagree, you still get your say. Where we stand by the article we will publish a fair statement of your position alongside it, free of charge, in your own words. The only thing we will not publish is a statement that defames someone else.
Before you write
We do not remove articles because they are commercially inconvenient, and never in exchange for payment, advertising or a link. Legal threats do not shorten this process; evidence does. If you have a licence and we missed it, one document usually settles it.
4. Nothing here is advice
ReviewingCenter is journalism, not advice. Nothing on this site is legal, financial or investment advice, or a personal recommendation, and none of it is regulated as such. We are not authorised by any financial supervisor and do not want to be.
We write for a general audience and know nothing about your finances or your appetite for risk. Before a decision that matters, talk to a professional qualified where you live. If you act on something you read here without doing that, the outcome is yours.
5. The independent legal advisers
What they do
We work alongside qualified lawyers and regulated advisory practices who help people file formal reports to financial regulators, cybercrime units and other authorities. That process involves specific forms, evidence and deadlines, and doing it properly is a real skill.
What we are not saying
They are separate businesses. They are not our staff or our agents, and we do not supervise their work. We introduce people who ask for an introduction; that is the whole of our involvement. We give no promise about their qualifications, their fees or the result of anything they do. Check them yourself: ask for their registration, get fees in writing, read what you are signing.
No outcome is promised
Filing a report is a procedural step. Whether an authority opens a case is its own decision and nobody can guarantee it in advance. Treat anyone who guarantees you an outcome as a warning sign in itself.
6. Using the site properly
Read the site, share it, quote it. What you may not do:
- Attack the site or its servers, or try to get access you were not given.
- Hammer it with automated requests, scrape it wholesale, or mirror it.
- Use the contact form to send spam, threats, or accusations you know to be false.
- Pretend to be someone you are not, or claim to represent ReviewingCenter.
- Use anything published here to train a machine learning model without asking first.
We can block access if any of that happens.
7. Copyright
The articles, the research behind them, the site design and the code are ours or licensed to us. You can read them, print a copy for yourself, and quote a short extract for comment or reporting provided you say it came from ReviewingCenter and link back to the original page on reviewingcenter.com. Republishing whole articles, or rewriting them lightly and passing them off as your own, is not allowed. For anything more, ask at contact@reviewingcenter.com.
Company names and logos in our articles belong to whoever owns them. We show them to identify the subject we are writing about, which is what trade mark law permits, and it implies no connection between us and them.
8. Links to other sites
We link out heavily, because our sources should be checkable. Those pages belong to other people, and we do not control what is on them. A link is a citation, and when we link to a scam operator’s own page it is plainly not an endorsement. Once you click away from reviewingcenter.com, their terms apply, not ours.
9. Liability
We put real effort into accuracy, but cannot promise everything here is complete, current or free of mistakes. Fraud is a moving target and the public record is thin. The site is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind.
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for losses you suffer through relying on what you read here. That includes money lost dealing with any platform we have written about; anything following from an engagement between you and an independent legal adviser; lost profits, business or data; and any indirect loss. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at one hundred euro across any twelve month period.
Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for death or injury caused by negligence, and nothing takes away consumer rights that cannot be signed away. If you break these terms and it costs us money, you cover our costs.
10. Law, and the rest
These terms are governed by the law of the country where ReviewingCenter is established, and its courts deal with any dispute. If you are a consumer in the European Union, you keep the protections of your home country’s law regardless.
If a court decides one clause here does not work, the rest still stands. Not enforcing something once does not mean we gave it up. We can transfer these terms to whoever takes over the site; you cannot transfer yours.
Anything you want to raise, including a right of reply or a copyright question, goes to contact@reviewingcenter.com. This version was published in 2026.