How to tell if a "free scan" offer is legitimate (and how to verify mine in five minutes)

"Free scan" is a phrase scammers use too, which makes it a reasonable thing to be suspicious of — including from us. If someone offers to scan your business for free, here's what to check before you give them anything.

What a legitimate free scan should never ask for

• Payment details or a card number before showing you any result.
• Login credentials to your own systems — a real external scan only needs your public domain, nothing you'd log into.
• Pressure to act immediately on a finding without being able to verify it yourself.

What you can check about us specifically

• ABN 34 318 502 254 — verifiable directly on the Australian Business Register, not just quoted on the site.
• The methodology page lists exactly what the scan checks and how to reproduce any finding yourself.
• We publish our own self-scan results in full, on the same page real client scans run from.
• Email from kyle@titanos.tech carries verified DKIM, SPF and DMARC — checkable in any email client's message headers.

The general rule, beyond us

A legitimate free offer can tell you, in plain language, exactly what it checks, exactly what it does with the result, and exactly how you'd verify the operator is who they say they are — before you've committed to anything. If any of those three answers is vague or missing, that's the signal to walk away, regardless of who's making the offer.