Verdict
1pps.us shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Business website for Price Professional Solutions offering merchant account services, POS hardware/software and free account reviews. Primary CTAs invite contact and free analysis; site copy lists industries served and product categories. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 14 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202219 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2022.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a corporate merchant-services landing page for Price Professional Solutions, presenting merchant-account processing, point-of-sale hardware and software, billing services, and free account reviews intended to generate business leads and service relationships.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed external reputation contradictions make sensitive interaction inappropriate. Multiple external detections identify the domain as malicious or suspicious, and a confirmed blacklist hit is recorded from more than one source. The site’s homepage presents conventional merchant-services marketing and no page-level brand-impersonation or phishing form was identified, but that ordinary presentation does not reconcile the external threat findings. Runtime observation also identified non-whitelisted outbound traffic and substantial page changes after interaction; these signals are not, by themselves, proof of malicious behavior, but they add technical concern alongside the confirmed reputation findings. No conflicting legal-entity names or direct impersonation finding were observed in the supplied page evidence.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 14 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 20 evaluations; two blacklist sources recorded a hit.
- The homepage identifies the business as Price Professional Solutions and promotes merchant-service leads, account reviews, and contact requests; page analysis recorded no explicit red-flag content or suspected brand impersonation.
- Behavioral testing completed 2 successful runs and recorded 1 external XHR plus 2 non-whitelisted external POST requests, with a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 497.
- Domain registration telemetry records 2013-02-20 and an age of 13.5 years through 2027-02-19; archival telemetry records 19 snapshots from 2022-07-25 through 2025-03-07, spanning 4 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content describes a merchant-services business but does not independently establish which real-world operator controls the website. The site content supplied for review does not claim a license or provide a registration number, leaving merchant-services authorization and corporate status for independent confirmation rather than treating the omission as proof of wrongdoing. The recorded registration details associate the domain with David Price and Price Payment Solutions, while identity verification remains unverified; this is an identity-assurance limitation, not a demonstrated identity contradiction. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which provides limited contextual reassurance but has no licensing or regulatory effect. The valid transport certificate is domain-validated only and therefore confirms encrypted transport, not the identity or authorization of the operator.
- WHOIS telemetry lists registrar Fastdomains, registrant David Price, and organization Price Payment Solutions.
- The homepage, About navigation, and Contact navigation provide the supplied business-identification surface; no license number or regulatory authority is stated in the reviewed content.
- TLS telemetry records issuer YR1, validation level DV, and validity through 2026-11-03T06:56:52+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any account, credential, or financial interaction, an institution should independently confirm the operating legal entity and any required merchant-services authorization through the relevant government or payment-network registry. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced business record or an offline channel rather than relying solely on the website. Any proposed merchant agreement should also be reviewed for the contracting entity, acquiring-bank relationship, fee schedule, data-protection terms, dispute rights, and termination provisions.
- The supplied identity-verification status is unverified, so the apparent business presentation has not independently connected the site to a confirmed real-world operator.
- The on-page regulatory disclosure state is unclear, requiring registry-based confirmation before commercial onboarding.
- The primary interaction surfaces are a contact request, account-review request, and merchant-account login link.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture for sensitive interactions. The conventional commercial presentation is outweighed by corroborated external threat detections and confirmed blacklist status, while the operator’s identity remains unverified. The appropriate classification is sensitive-interaction risk rather than an established, independently authenticated merchant-services provider.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly through AS31898, operated by ORACLE-BMC-31898—Oracle Corporation in the United States—and no CDN or edge-IP layer was detected. Oracle hosting and valid TLS provide basic infrastructure and transport controls, but they are mitigating technical characteristics only and do not offset the external reputation findings.
- Hosting telemetry records AS31898, organization ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US, resolved to 162.241.30.59 in the United States.
- Infrastructure telemetry records 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, no detected CDN, and no likely origin candidates.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and expires on 2026-11-03T06:56:52+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to non-sensitive review and suspend login, credential submission, account onboarding, and financial transactions unless the operator and service authorization are independently confirmed through trusted channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of 1pps.us.
- The request stayed on 1pps.us. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Fastdomains. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-19. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2022-07-25. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Fastdomains |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.30.59 |
| Name servers | ns2.bluehost.com, ns1.bluehost.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Domain age | 13.50 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-19 |
| Archive first seen | 2022-07-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 19 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 1pps.us at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.