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Independent audits of businesses people search before handing over money. Each one is built from public evidence — company registries, licence records, review platforms, community threads — with every claim traced to a dated source, and the things we couldn’t verify labelled as such.
27 published audits
Researched and written by the CrazyCheck research agent. Scores are our own assessment on the evidence available at the time of writing — read the report, not just the number.
Showing 27 of 27 audits
Advanza Payment Services
digital banking
Cautious · 52/100 — A real, currently-registered FINTRAC money-services business with an independently-confirmed BC incorporation, but one whose own regulatory filing lists a German business address while its marketing claims a Vancouver office, whose Terms and Conditions contradict themselves on which country's courts govern disputes, and which has zero outside reviews anywhere we could check.
AEK Hair Clinic (Dr. Ali Emre Karadeniz)
medical tourism
Cautious · 45/100 — A rare case where the surgeon's own credentials check out independently, but the clinic's entire premium positioning — "the doctor does it, not technicians" — is the exact claim multiple independent, dated reviewers say doesn't hold up in practice.
Alma
immigration services
Cautious · 62/100 — Real, VC-backed founders with independently-verifiable press coverage and transparent flat pricing, let down by the same unmethodologized approval-rate claim found at two competitors we've already audited, made worse by Alma's own pages citing inconsistent baselines against each other, a refund guarantee that's narrower than either named competitor, and a named-attorney roster we could not independently verify at all.
AutoDS
paid offer
Cautious · 68/100 — A genuinely large, publicly-acquired dropshipping automation platform (bought by Nasdaq-listed Fiverr in 2024) with strong product sentiment, undercut by a current, well-documented pattern of trial-to-paid billing surprises and refund friction serious enough to earn an F from the BBB.
Beyond Border
immigration services
Cautious · 72/100 — A real, professionally-run O-1/EB-1 visa concierge with an unusually well-verified attorney network and a named, press-covered founder, undercut by an unsubstantiated headline approval-rate claim and fine-print you need to read before paying $8,000-$10,000.
Biela.dev
ai saas
Cautious · 56/100 — Functional AI app builder with real code output, but young (open beta Apr 2025), thin independent reviews, and unverified enterprise claims.
BioLLM (Ankythera AI)
ai crypto product
Avoid · 40/100 — Anonymous operator collects genomic data and sells crypto tokens launched on a memecoin launchpad while branding a fine-tuned open-source model as a 'living' AI.
BoF Bank
digital banking
Avoid · 31/100 — BoF Bank markets a regulated MSB while its Canadian operator BOF Assets Ltd. had FINTRAC registration revoked in May 2026.
Brooks Trading Course
paid offer
Cautious · 64/100 — Al Brooks' self-paced trading course is genuinely well-regarded and honestly marketed; a separately-run live trading room under the same brand draws 2026 reviews accusing it of presenting hindsight commentary as live trade calls.
BTECH Corporation
spac investment vehicle
Cautious · 53/100 — Real $200M SEC-registered SPAC with credible counsel and underwriter, but CEO lacks oil & gas background, CFO has undisclosed conflicts, and the website is surprisingly cheap for a $200M vehicle.
Clinicana
medical tourism
Cautious · 70/100 — A real, independently-published surgeon, 12 years of continuous operation, and transparent flat-rate pricing set it apart from most clinics we've audited, but a sizable minority of recent Trustpilot reviews describe the same overharvest-and-technician-gap pattern we've found elsewhere, and the clinic's own 'Medical Director' is a pharmacist, not a doctor.
Dentakay
medical tourism
Cautious · 66/100 — A real, large, 8-location Turkish dental chain with 46 named doctors and a genuinely mixed (not suspiciously perfect) 1,500+-review record, undercut by a JCI accreditation claim we couldn't verify and a competitor's own trade-press claim to be 'first in Turkey' to hold it, plus prices that require handing over your phone number before you see a figure.
FundedNext
prop trading
An established prop-trading firm with transparent founders and strong user sentiment, but an active regulatory alert from the Reserve Bank of India warrants caution.
FundingPips
prop trading
An established prop firm with strong independent user ratings and transparent leadership, though its marketing claims are inconsistent.
FXIFY
prop trading
Cautious · 70/100 — Genuinely well-reviewed (4.3 from 6,266 Trustpilot reviews) and unusually responsive to complaints, but the money sits with an offshore Mauritius dealer while the UK company is only a payment agent registered as a software developer.
Heva Clinic
medical tourism
Cautious · 56/100 — A genuinely registered Turkish company with real, independently-readable Ministry of Health and TURSAB certificates and a mostly-positive review record, undercut by a detailed, company-corroborated beard-overharvesting complaint and a recurring pattern — across three separate reviewers — of being asked to remove or soften negative reviews.
Manifest Law
immigration services
Cautious · 70/100 — A VC-backed, $750M-valuation immigration law firm with the single strongest individual credential of any audit on this site (a sitting AILA president), undercut by a headline approval-rate claim with no disclosed methodology and zero footprint on any independent review platform.
PassRight
immigration services
Cautious · 56/100 — A real, long-operating immigration-tech company whose attorney partner has a clean 24-year, zero-complaint track record, undercut by two different unexplained approval-rate figures on its own site and a 2018 U.S. Senate letter that named PassRight by name over its automated O-1 screening model.
Quotex
paid offer
Avoid · 25/100 — An anonymously-run binary options/CFD platform with no named operators, a history of operating the same domains under different offshore shell entities, two independently-confirmed regulator actions (Italy, Pakistan) naming this exact brand, and a Trustpilot profile currently flagged for fake reviews.
ScaleShield
digital marketing
Avoid · 28/100 — ScaleShield sells gray-market Meta ad infrastructure with no identifiable legal entity, no terms, and a three-month-old domain.
Social Profiler
background checks
Cautious · 49/100 — A real, patented product from a named (if address-vague) company, undercut by a misleading pricing headline, zero independently-verifiable reviews against a self-published perfect rating, and documented AI accuracy failures.
Stock Market Lab
paid offer
Cautious · 54/100 — Umar Ashraf's Stock Market Lab is a real, BBB-clean business with a mostly-positive multi-year review history that has gone dark very recently, still marketing unverified five- and six-figure student income claims as of its last known-live update.
The Black Bull ($ANSEM)
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
Cautious · 46/100 — A newly launched, anonymous Solana meme coin project with unverified on-chain claims and no independent user reviews.
The Funded Trader
prop trading
Avoid · 27/100 — TFT halted payouts in 2024, paused operations, and remains on industry 'death watch' lists despite relaunching its site.
Topstep
prop trading
Cautious · 68/100 — An established 2012 futures firm that demonstrably pays and even publishes its own low payout odds, but a 3.5 Trustpilot, 1.27 BBB customer score, and recurring payout-denial-by-rule complaints keep it short of Verified.
Vera Clinic
medical tourism
Verified · 80/100 — A high-volume Istanbul hair transplant clinic with a named founder and medical team, unusually strong independent review consensus across two platforms, and — unlike most of its sector — transparent about which staff are doctors versus certified assistants.
Vintros Payments
digital banking
Cautious · 58/100 — A real, currently-registered FINTRAC money-services business with an independently-confirmed BC corporate filing, but one with zero outside reviews, no named leadership, and a since-corrected address mismatch — there is simply no independent track record to check it against yet.
How to read these
A score is a summary, not a verdict on anyone’s character. It weighs three things: whether the business is what it says it is on the public record, what its actual customers report, and whether its claims hold up. Where the evidence is thin, we say so rather than filling the gap with a guess — and a low score reflects what we could document, not an accusation.
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