Check whether a website is legit before you pay

How long a website has existed, its Trustpilot rating and reviews, scam reports on Google and what Reddit says about it, before you pay.

Steps

At most, per call

A website legitimacy check weighs a site’s age, reviews and complaints before you send money. With Agentik, your AI finds the site’s first archived copy in the Wayback Machine, reads its Trustpilot reviews with DataForSEO, searches scam reports with Serper and Reddit threads through ScrapeCreators.

Step 1: Check its age
The Wayback Machine finds the site’s first and latest archived copies, to show how long it has existed.
- Wayback Machine snapshot lookupInternet Archive · first and latestFree
Step 2: Read its reviews
DataForSEO finds the site on Trustpilot and reads its latest forty reviews; the results come back in a few minutes, and fetching them is free.
Step 3: Search for scam reports
Serper searches Google for scam reports and complaints, and ScrapeCreators searches Reddit. A registration record is optional.
Step 4: Write the verdict
Your AI writes a verdict that weighs every signal, and what to do before paying.
Your agent does this part, with no tool call.

Cost of the example

At most $0.03one run

One domain, its first and latest archive snapshots, its Trustpilot listing and 40 reviews, 2 Google searches, one Reddit search.

Give this to your agent

Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: is this website legit.

Check whether a website is legit before I pay. First ask me for the website and what it asks me to pay for.

Find when the site was first archived and its latest copy with wayback/availability. Find it on Trustpilot with dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-search and read its latest reviews with dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews. Search Google for scam reports with serper/search and Reddit with scrapecreators/get-v1-reddit-search.

Finish with a verdict (looks legit, be careful, or likely a scam), the evidence for each point, and what to do before paying.

Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

4 providers, one connection

What you get

A verdict with what to do before paying.

You provide

The website
What it asks you to pay for

Your agent returns

How long the site has existed
Its rating and what reviewers say
Scam reports and complaints
A verdict and what to do before paying

Legit checkExample layout

Signal	Finding	Risk
First archived	Three weeks ago	High
Trustpilot	Few reviews, all recent	High
Scam reports	Two on Reddit	High

Placeholders. Your rows come from your run.

Each provider does one part

No single provider covers this job. Your agent calls each one for its part, from one connection.

Good to know

A young site is not always a scam, and an old one is not always safe; the verdict weighs every signal.
The registration record is optional because it costs more than the other checks.

When to use something else

If you already paid and suspect fraud, contact your bank and the local consumer authority. This playbook helps before you pay.

Questions

Does a new site mean a scam?

No. A young site is not always a scam, and an old one is not always safe; the verdict weighs every signal.

What if I already paid?

Contact your bank and your local consumer authority right away.

What does the example cost?

At most $0.03, without the optional registration record.

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