About us
Who we are
Horkos is a free service from Georgia. It helps you check a site, a Telegram channel or an email before you pay money or enter personal data.
How we check
- We check the site ourselves. With more than 70 checks of our own — of the page, the address and its history. We do not just rely on someone else's list.
- The answer comes from rules, not guesses. The same facts always give the same answer, and every sign comes with its evidence.
- We measure every change. We switch a new check on only when it gives no false alarms on well-known legitimate sites.
What we compare with
We also compare our own check with publicly published information:
- Financial regulators' warnings: Hong Kong (SFC), France (AMF), Australia (ASIC), Switzerland (FINMA), Poland (KNF, UOKiK), Cyprus (CySEC), Russia (the Central Bank), the USA (FTC, SEC).
- Open security databases: Google Safe Browsing, VirusTotal, ScamSniffer, Phishing.Database, Internet Archive.
These organisations are not our partners and do not confirm our results — we only use the information they publish publicly, following their rules.
What we do not do
- Our answer is a risk assessment, not an accusation, and not a court's or a regulator's conclusion.
- We do not enter closed groups or password-protected pages, and we do not collect anyone's personal data.
- What is stored and what is not — how it works and what is stored.