MyWot

MyWOT (Web of Trust) is a website reputation and safety rating service that crowdsources user trust scores for websites, providing safety ratings across categories including trustworthiness, privacy, child safety, and malware distribution. It operates as a browser extension and online lookup service.

For OSINT investigators, MyWOT's crowdsourced reputation scores provide community-based threat intelligence for websites encountered during investigation. When assessing an unfamiliar website found during research, MyWOT's rating aggregates community experience with that site — warnings from many users who have encountered problems provide practical risk intelligence.

Fraud and scam website identification is a primary application — websites that have been reported as scams by community members surface in MyWOT with low trustworthiness scores and specific warning categories. This community-flagging can surface fraudulent sites that have not yet been processed by commercial blacklists.

Phishing site detection through MyWOT's database supplements commercial threat intelligence feeds by incorporating user-reported information. Some phishing sites are reported to community databases before they are added to major antivirus blacklists.

Website legitimacy assessment for unfamiliar sites encountered during investigation — particularly in fraud or scam investigations — benefits from community reputation data that reflects actual user experiences.

MyWOT's privacy rating is particularly relevant for investigation contexts where understanding a website's data collection practices matters — low privacy scores indicate sites known for aggressive data collection or selling user information.

Limitations: MyWOT's crowdsourced ratings can be manipulated — competitors or malicious actors have historically submitted false negative ratings to damage legitimate sites. Ratings should be used as one data point among multiple assessments rather than as definitive reputation verdicts.

Document websites assessed through MyWOT with their reputation scores, specific concern categories flagged, and query timestamps.