Safety

Exam leaks and fake exam dumps

• Real exam content is protected. Anyone offering “today's real questions”, “verified leaks” or “braindumps with guaranteed questions” is almost certainly selling stolen content, invented content, or both.
• Using leaks or dumps can get your scores cancelled. Exam bodies (College Board, ETS, Pearson VUE, CFA Institute, and others) investigate leaked material and routinely void scores, ban candidates, and pursue legal action.
• “Free dumps” are often bait. They are used to collect your email, install malware, or lure you into a paid scam. If a file is that good, it is not free.

Credential scams

• Nobody can pass for you. Offers to take your exam remotely, sit it for you, or “fix” your score are fraud. Exam centers verify identity, and impersonation can result in cancelled results and permanent bans.
• Guaranteed pass guarantees are lies. No legitimate prep service can promise a specific score. “Pay after you pass” schemes still take your money and your personal data.
• Fake certificates are worthless and risky. Only the issuing body can award a credential. Buying a “certificate” without the exam is fraud — it will not survive an employer's verification check and can have legal consequences.

Fake tutors and impersonation

• Verify tutors independently. Anyone can copy a username, avatar or profile. Confirm a tutor's identity through the platform's official channels before paying or sharing anything.
• Official-sounding names are not official. Accounts named after exam boards, universities or certification bodies are often impersonators. Exam boards never message students privately to demand payment or “re-register” you.
• Admins are not referees. A group admin or moderator is just another user with extra buttons. Treat private offers from admins the same way you would treat offers from strangers.

Payment scams

• Never pay to join or “unlock”. Legitimate study communities are free to join. Fees for invites, “vip access”, “verified materials” or “priority exam slots” are almost always scams.
• Only pay exam bodies and known prep providers directly. Exam registration is never handled through a chat group. If someone in a group offers to “register” you, they are taking your money and your personal details.
• No gift cards, no crypto, no “processing fees”. Requests for gift-card codes, cryptocurrency, or payments to random accounts are a near-certain scam, regardless of the story attached.

Phishing and malware in study files

• Check the URL before you click. Lookalike domains (e.g. collegeboard-login.xyz) are used to steal credentials. Log in to exam portals only by typing the official address yourself.
• Be careful with shared study files. PDFs and images are usually fine; executables, scripts, password-protected archives and “cracked” software are how malware spreads. Scan anything you download.
• Never share codes or OTPs. One-time passwords, 2FA codes and verification codes are for you alone — no tutor, admin or “support agent” ever legitimately needs them.

Stolen course materials

• Pirated courses are both illegal and dangerous. Sharing or buying cracked prep courses violates copyright, and the files are frequently bundled with malware.
• Recommend, don't redistribute. Pointing someone to an official course or free resource helps them. Sending them a stolen copy puts both of you at risk.

General internet safety

• Keep personal details out of public groups. No full names, addresses, passport/ID numbers, or financial information in chats.
• Turn on two-factor authentication on your email and messaging accounts — they are the keys to everything else.
• Trust the official channel. For anything exam-related — registration, scores, results, certification status — use the exam body's official website, never a chat link someone sent you.

What we check — and what we don't

We check whether invite links appear to work and record honest verification states (see How We Verify). We do not audit community content, members, admins, tutors or files shared inside a community. A checked link is a working link — nothing more.

Report problems

See a dead invite, suspected exam-dump trading, credential fraud, or malware being shared? Use the report form — every report is reviewed by a human.