Verdict
312northwood.com 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 | Marketing site for 312 Northwood, a boutique luxury apartment community in West Palm Beach. Provides descriptions of residences, amenities, floor plans, address, phone, and email for leasing inquiries. Social links to Facebook and Instagram are present. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a marketing and leasing site for 312 Northwood, a boutique luxury apartment community in West Palm Beach. It presents one- and two-bedroom residences, floor plans, building amenities, neighborhood information, and leasing contact options, with the apparent business purpose of generating residential rental inquiries.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
A confirmed blacklist designation and multiple external malicious detections create a material security contradiction despite the site’s conventional real-estate presentation. The homepage is a static marketing page with no observed login or sensitive submission form, and no separate brand-impersonation or conflicting legal-identity finding was identified; however, those benign page characteristics do not offset the external threat detections. The site should therefore be treated as potentially unsafe for credentials, deposits, payment details, or other sensitive interactions until its legitimacy is independently established.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 6 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist designation from 2 external blacklist sources.
- The homepage presents a real-estate marketing model and no login form or sensitive form was observed.
- The domain was registered on 2016-10-31 and is approximately 9.8 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The footer presents “Parkland Companies” as the apparent organization associated with the site, while the site describes residential leasing rather than a regulated financial service. The available evidence does not independently verify that organization’s relationship to the property or establish the identity of the party responsible for leasing. No licensing or registration number is presented in the supplied site content; for a residential property this is a transparency and regulatory-verification matter rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. The site’s valid transport encryption and identifiable hosting are technical controls, not evidence of legal authorization.
- The site footer identifies “©2025 Parkland Companies, All Rights Reserved.”
- Hosting resolved to AS16556, TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING – TotalChoice Hosting, LLC, US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR2 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-11-10.
What to Verify Next
An independent property and corporate-records check should confirm that Parkland Companies is connected to 312 Northwood and authorized to market or lease the premises. Any applicable Florida or local property-management, rental, or business-registration requirements should be checked with the relevant official registry. Contact details and viewing or payment instructions should be validated through an independently sourced route, and no deposit or lease commitment should occur until the contracting entity, property access, lease terms, and payment recipient are confirmed.
- The site provides separate Building, Residences, Floor Plans, Neighborhood, and Contact pages that can be compared for consistent property and operator information.
- The stated business model is residential leasing, making the property-management relationship and payment recipient central verification points.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction on the present evidence. The site’s plausible real-estate content and apparent operator reference do not overcome the confirmed external threat contradiction, and the real-world identity remains only apparently connected rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting endpoint operated by TotalChoice Hosting in the United States, with no CDN or WAF vendor identified in the infrastructure observation. This provides identifiable network attribution but does not materially mitigate the external reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive review until independent property, operator, and payment-recipient checks are complete; credentials and financial information should not be submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 312northwood.com.
- The request stayed on 312northwood.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under IONOS SE. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by paravelsolutions.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-31. Noted
- It is hosted on TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | IONOS SE |
|---|---|
| Hosting | TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING - TotalChoice Hosting, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 208.76.83.22 |
| Name servers | NS3.PARAVELSOLUTIONS.COM, NS4.PARAVELSOLUTIONS.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-10 |
| Domain age | 9.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 312northwood.com 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.