Offbez (offbez.com) presents itself as a security service that reviews projects and keeps a blacklist. That framing is useful marketing: people who already fear scams look for a referee. The risk is treating its “verified” or security-approved tipsters as independent due diligence.
Complaints and secondary write-ups describe the same pattern: promotional Telegram accounts for tipsters, recovery helpers and “AI trading” desks get a friendly legend (“security checked”, “we vouch for reliability”), while names and handles rotate when reviews turn sour. Sister-looking “scam rating” domains often sit in the same advertising neighbourhood. None of that proves every Offbez page is false — it proves the badge is not a licence.
How to check without the middleman: ignore the seal; open the tipster’s claims yourself. Ask for a verifiable track record that is not a collage of screenshots. Ask who holds client money and under which licence. If the next step is a private chat, a deposit to “start trading”, or a recovery fee after a loss, you are already in the sales funnel.
A directory that both “exposes” and “recommends” is doing marketing. Your money needs a register entry and a boring payment trail, not a green tick on someone else’s blog.
If this pattern matches something you’ve been offered, start at Get help. If someone is already pitching “recovery”, read Fake recovery before you pay another fee.
This article is for general information only. It is not legal or financial advice. Details change. If you have lost money, contact your bank or card issuer and use the routes on the help pages.