Published cases
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Most searched right now
The projects most people are looking up will appear here. When many people search for the same thing at once, it usually means something is going viral — which is exactly when the warning is needed.
This order is never a ranking of “the worst”: it is what people are asking about. Counts are aggregated per case and without identifying who searches — no IP, no cookies, no profiles.
This order is never a ranking of “the worst”: it is what people are asking about. Counts are aggregated per case and without identifying who searches — no IP, no cookies, no profiles.
Recently updated
Recently reviewed cases will appear here. A scheme changes its withdrawal rules, a regulator issues a warning, or an entity replies with evidence and its index drops. All of it dated and visible.
The scale
0–14
No signals detected
15–34
Minor signals
35–59
Warning signals
60–79
High structural risk
80–100
Critical signals
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Insufficient evidence
NoteA pyramid and a Ponzi scheme are not the same thing, even though the words get used interchangeably. In a Ponzi scheme a central operator takes the money and pays earlier participants with what newer ones put in. In a pyramid, each participant has to recruit others to get their own money back. Many real frauds combine both, and the rubric measures indicators of each.
Note also that “insufficient evidence” is never painted green. Not having been able to verify something does not mean it is clean: it means we do not know, and saying otherwise would be the most damaging mistake we could make.
Note also that “insufficient evidence” is never painted green. Not having been able to verify something does not mean it is clean: it means we do not know, and saying otherwise would be the most damaging mistake we could make.
What the number means
It is the Ponzi Signal Index: the share of the rubric’s weight whose indicators were confirmed by archived evidence. It is a reproducible measurement — you can recount it and reach the same number. It is not a statistical probability and not a legal determination.
Coverage always travels with the number. A low index at 20% coverage does not mean “this is clean”: it means “we don’t know”. Below 40% we publish no index at all.
Illustrative example. No real case has been published yet.
CASE-0000 · rubric v1.0.0 · 2026-08-24
74/100
High structural risk
Coverage 68%
Signal index from the public rubric. Not a probability and not a legal verdict.
What this is and is not
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We do not accuse. We measure.We never say something "is a scam" or someone "is a fraudster" — a court decides that. We apply a public rubric and show the evidence.
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"No signals" is not an endorsement.Absence of signals does not guarantee legitimacy, and using it promotionally is prohibited. We certify no one.
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We do not score people.The index always belongs to a project or entity, never to a human being. People appear only as a record of what they promoted publicly.
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There is no money involved.No ads, no paywall, no sponsorship, and not a cent from the entities evaluated. No business model, because having one would make it corruptible.
How a case is evaluated
- Archive first, reason later — all evidence is captured and sealed with its hash and date before any conclusion. Schemes erase their tracks when they fall.
- The rubric is applied, indicator by indicator — each one requires its own cited evidence. Marking it "because it is obvious" is forbidden.
- A verifier tries to refute it — an adversarial pass tries to show the evidence does not support the claim. When in doubt, it refutes.
- A person approves it, or sends it back — nothing is published until a human opens the citations and checks they say what the dossier claims.
- The evidence stays public — screenshots, documents, transcripts and hashes, visible and downloadable. Verifiable without trusting us.
Open, and designed to be copied
Cases and their evidence live in a versioned repository rather than a database: every copy someone downloads is a complete archive with its history. If this domain disappears, the work does not. Copying this project is not merely allowed — it is the plan.
git clone https://github.com/Rastipunk/isitponzi.git npm install npm run build
No keys and no services to sign up for: the site is static and builds from the same repository.