How we vet a broker
Every entry on AskCheck traces back to real evidence. Here’s where our data comes from and how a broker ends up flagged.
AskCheck is a free public checker. We don’t take payment from brokers, and we don’t invent outcomes. A broker appears on our register for one of two reasons: it was flagged by a recognised source, or the public reported it and a moderator confirmed the report isn’t spam.
Regulator & watchlist data
We draw on published warnings and assessments from financial regulators and broker-review databases — unlicensed-firm alerts, clone warnings and withdrawal-complaint records.
Community reports
Anyone can report a broker. Each submission is reviewed by a moderator for spam and abuse before it’s published or promoted to the register.
Red-flag analysis
For each broker we surface the concrete signals in the record — unregulated status, clone behaviour, withdrawal problems, offshore shells and named regulators — rather than a made-up score.
Cross-checked with SentFunds
Flagged results link straight to the full entry on the SentFunds public register, so you can see the complete record in one place.
What we don’t do
- We don’t recover funds and we don’t guarantee funds can be recovered.
- We don’t publish fabricated reviews, invented victim counts, or fake “money recovered” figures.
- We don’t charge you, and we don’t sell your report.
New scams appear daily and no register can list them all. If a broker isn’t flagged yet, use the Spot-a-Scam checklist and report it.