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.

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