On RTE news today mention of new website www.scamchecker.ie which appears to have been launched by https://bpfi.ie/ and says it is to check if a website or link is legit.
www.scamchecker.ie can be used to check if a website or link is legit
- Thread starter Sue Ellen
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Shouldn't it be the opposite? While making for a more painful experience, EU law requires that websites prompt users prior to dropping cookies.
So it seems it is a front-end to some other program I have to check for authenticity scamadviser
No, you interpreted a website behaving exactly as the law states it must as suspicious. It's difficult to understand how you might interpret that as being right.
Beyond that I don't know why you might think them using a legitimate 3rd party service provider here is in any way unusual. It's very common to do so as it is a specialised service that the BPFI certainly aren't going to replicate.
