Online-course platforms love trust badges. GetCourse, for example, runs a “quality mark” and a registry of schools that applied, showed an offer page, kept refund rates within the platform’s rules and passed an internal review. Useful if you care whether the checkout button works. Useless as proof that a crypto or trading curriculum is honest about risk.
The badge criteria, as the platform describes them, lean toward operational hygiene: transparent terms, support, refund behaviour. They do not certify that “+10–50% a month” is realistic, that the tutor has a verified track record, or that the sales page is free of FOMO timers and silent referral deals with exchanges. GetCourse even markets the mark to schools as a conversion tool — which is fair commercial language, and a reminder that the stamp is partly a sales asset.
Read the landing page first. Unrealistic returns, “first profitable trade in a week”, pressure to leave a phone number for a free PDF, and partner links into leveraged products still mean what they always meant. A QR code to a platform registry does not rewrite those facts. If the pitch would look reckless without the badge, it still looks reckless with one.
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