Rug risk vs scam risk — what's the difference?
Rug risk asks: can your money get trapped or drained? It looks at the mechanics — whether liquidity can be pulled, whether new supply can be minted, whether wallets can be frozen, how concentrated the holders are, and whether heavy selling is already underway.
Scam risk asks: does the project's story hold up? A token can pass every mechanical check and still be built on claims nobody can confirm, a famous name it has no connection to, or no identifiable people behind it. These often don't collapse at once — they fade as the story falls apart, which is sometimes called a slow rug.
Scam signals add to the rug-risk score, because a story that doesn't hold up tends to end the same way. Higher scores mean more of the warning signs that came before past rugs — what you do with that is your call.
Both scores are probabilities built from public information at the time of the scan. Neither predicts what will happen, and neither is a finding that any person committed fraud or that any project is a scam. A low score is not a guarantee. Always do your own research.