How do I know If a bank is legit or not

Question

How do I know if an online bank website is legit or not? Is there Syntax Metropolis bank?

Answer 1

The only mention of them I find in a websearch is their own site. A whois lookup (https://www.whois.com/whois/syntaxmbonline.com) says that domain was registered last month via gandi.net, and whoever owns it only paid for one year of registration (extremely unlikely if they plan to be on business longer than that; I've got a 7-year lease on two versions of domain I'm barely using except as a mail address).

This does not square well with their claim to have existed for 15 years.

Their domain registration claims its owner is based in the Netherlands, for whatever that's worth.

And the name sounds inherently bogus to me. Why syntax? Which metropolis? That's an aggressively meaningless identity.

I would assume scam until proven otherwise. In fact, I would assume any bank that I haven't heard of and can't physically visit is a scam until proven otherwise.

FOLLOWUP: I contacted the registrar and pointed out these issues. They agreed and have cancelled the domain. It is worth contacting abuse desks and trying to get these crooks shut down.