--- title: "Is bertswap.org a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "bertswap.org" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is bertswap.org a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/bertswap.org assessed: 2026-10-22 --- # Is bertswap.org a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** bertswap.org shows high-risk / scam indicators. This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk Assessed 2026-10-22 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%. ## Evidence status and limitations Evidence completeness: Not recorded - 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. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | 12 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 11% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 6 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 3 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (1 snapshot) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the bertswap.org homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/bertswap.org/screenshots/first.png) _What bertswap.org served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-22. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2026. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet, Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. BertSwap, served from bertswap.org, presents itself as a cross-chain swap venue. Its homepage title advertises swapping XRP and XRPL tokens to any chain. The site appears to be a decentralized-exchange or bridging front end aimed at users who want to move XRP-ledger assets across blockchains. The business model is therefore transaction-driven: visitors are expected to bring digital assets to the platform. The captured homepage was a single, text-rich page and the site is very new. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk Contradictory signals are present and are decisive. Two tier-one security vendors currently flag the domain, and a dozen further engines report it as malicious, with one more rating it suspicious. This places the domain on **confirmed external blacklists**, which independent threat-intelligence consensus supports. No brand impersonation, conflicting legal identities, or phishing-page content was separately confirmed. The risk therefore rests on the reputational blacklisting, compounded by the very recent registration and the thin historical record. A site whose stated purpose is to receive and route crypto-assets is exactly the kind of destination that malicious actors imitate or abuse. That makes this convergence of a new domain and active detections materially serious. The site's observed runtime behaviour does not show wallet-drainer activity, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, credential posts to outside parties, or cloaking across three successful sandbox runs. These findings do not offset the blacklisting. The page makes a high share of its requests to external destinations, including a number of outbound POST submissions, though none went to non-whitelisted endpoints. The hosting address has also drawn abuse reports in the shared-hosting context. Those reports are attributed to the shared provider address and were not discounted, so they add to the cautionary picture without proving that the site itself is the source. Evidence: - Homepage and domain-level reputation: 12 engines flagged the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious, including two tier-one vendors, so an external kill-switch cap applies. - Domain provenance: registered 2026-07-18 (~0.26 years old), with 1 archive snapshot in 2026 (1 year tracked), so there is no established history. - Homepage runtime behaviour: 12 external XHR/fetch calls and 6 external POSTs, with 0 to non-whitelisted destinations. Cloaking: none. Wallet-drainer activity: none. - Hosting address: 6 abuse reports against the shared provider address, with a low confidence rating. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The evidence establishes no licensing, registration, or regulatory standing for this operator. No third-party regulated status was identified, and no match was found in broker-reputation datasets. The latter is only a neutral absence of reputational context and says nothing in the site's favour. Real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the page content could not be independently tied to any known brand or person. A platform handling crypto-asset swaps and cross-chain transfers would ordinarily be expected to identify its operating entity and its compliance posture. The supplied evidence does not allow such a conclusion here, so any on-site claims of legitimacy should be treated as unconfirmed. Evidence: - Registrar: Spaceship, Inc., with registration running until 2027-07-18. - Hosting: AS59692 (IQWeb FZ-LLC, UAE), RIPE registry. - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 (DV, domain-validated only), valid to 2027-01-07. - Homepage: the title is the only operator-facing identity cue captured, so no legal entity could be matched. ### What to Verify Next Because the domain is blacklisted, verification should focus on whether any legitimate project stands behind it. The operator's identity and any claimed XRP-ledger affiliation should be checked through independent, offline channels, such as the official project channels of the XRP Ledger ecosystem. Any claim of a regulated status should be confirmed directly with the relevant registry. Official support and contact channels should likewise be confirmed independently. Wallet addresses, token contracts, or transaction instructions should not be taken from this site without independent confirmation. The reputation listings should be re-checked after the site owner has had a chance to respond. Evidence: - Domain age and archive depth: a domain only about three months old with a single archive capture offers no track record to rely on. - Reputation: active detections from multiple security vendors persist until delisted. - Hosting: abuse reports exist for the shared hosting address, which further justifies a fresh check before any engagement. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is elevated risk, with a clearly cautionary stance. Active external threat detections dominate the assessment. The domain is young, its operator is unidentified, and independent confirmation of legitimacy is absent. Technically sound hygiene and clean runtime behaviour do not outweigh the reputational listings. Sensitive interactions with this site are classed as unsafe. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves to a single address at a UAE-based hosting provider, with no CDN or WAF detected in front of it. The domain is therefore served directly from the origin host, with no protective edge layer to absorb or filter abusive traffic. The valid TLS certificate and an identifiable network registration are baseline hygiene only. They provide no mitigation of the reputation risk and do not indicate legitimacy. ### Closing Assessment At most, the site should be viewed read-only. Logging in, connecting a wallet, submitting credentials, or sending funds should be avoided until the domain is delisted and an independently verified operator identity is established. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership. ### 01 External reputation - 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`) ### 02 Hosting and network - The domain was registered less than three months ago. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D`) ### 03 History in the web archive - The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new. (History in the web archive `rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE`) ### 04 Behaviour in a sandbox - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH`) - The page made many background requests to other domains while it was open. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_XHR_HEAVY`) ### 05 Registration and ownership - The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`) ### Signals weighed against the site - AbuseIPDB: 6 reports on hosting IP 186.2.175.35 (IQWeb FZ-LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 11% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website. ## Identity verification | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Status | UNKNOWN | | Identity score | 50/100 | | Identity verification confidence | 30% | - AI page analysis unavailable (page captured; identity not AI-verified) _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 bertswap.org. - The request stayed on bertswap.org. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under Spaceship, Inc.. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by spaceship.net, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-07-18. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-17. (Clear) - It is hosted on IQWEB, from a server in AE. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Spaceship, Inc. | | Hosting | IQWEB - IQWeb FZ-LLC, AE | | Country | AE | | Server IP | 186.2.175.35 | | Name servers | launch1.spaceship.net, launch2.spaceship.net | | CDN / edge network | Not detected | | Resolved IP addresses | 1 | | Edge IP addresses | 0 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 1 | | SSL issuer | YR2 | | SSL expiry | 2027-01-07 | | Domain age | 0.26 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-07-18 | | Archive first seen | 2026-09-17 | | Archive snapshots | 1 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 11% confidence, 6 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment **Was this report useful?** Tell other people what you think of TrustSniffer, good or bad. An honest review helps others decide whether to rely on these checks. 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