A few months ago I put together a list of things I do when evaluating the likely legitimacy of a website (especially wrt ecommerce) https://antipaucity.com/202

A few months ago I put together a list of things I do when evaluating the likely legitimacy of a website (especially wrt ecommerce) https://antipaucity.com/2021/08/04/determining-the-legitimacy-reliability-of-a-domain/#.Ya4se1NOlAc https://antipaucity.com/2021/08/04/determining-the-legitimac... As @mikewarot said, too, look for reviews of the given service elsewhere (and then determine how reliable (another thing I wrote a while ago: https://antipaucity.com/2006/10/23/authority-issues-online/#.Ya4tDVNOlAc https://antipaucity.com/2006/10/23/authority-issues-online/#...) that site is)