Verdict
boardgamegroup.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 | SaaS-style site for managing board game groups and events. Includes login/signup, feature descriptions (events, spaces, player queue), and cookie/analytics consent. No financial solicitation or crypto elements detected. |
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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 | 13 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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 2011.
- 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 SaaS-style platform called Board Game Group that presents tools for organizing board-game events, managing game libraries, coordinating player sessions, and supporting board-game cafes, clubs, and conventions through organizational accounts.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a benign-looking community software proposition, and the available page analysis found no financial solicitation, cryptocurrency functionality, brand-impersonation indicators, or identity inconsistency. However, this benign presentation conflicts with multiple external malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status across independent sources. The presence of login and signup functionality makes the contradiction directly relevant to credential security; the site should therefore be treated as unsuitable for sensitive interaction unless its authenticity is independently established.
- External reputation checks recorded 13 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection; two security vendors were among the reporting sources, and blacklist status was confirmed by two sources.
- The homepage contains “Login” and “Sign Up” functions alongside descriptions of events, spaces, player queues, and organizational roles.
- Domain registration records show registration in 2015, with an age of approximately 10.95 years.
- Historical records contain 8 archive snapshots spanning 2011–2019, with 9 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content describes a software service rather than a financial or investment offering. No independently verified real-world operator identity or regulatory status is established, and the captured site material does not present a license number or regulated-service claim. That disclosure limitation is a verification gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud; nevertheless, it prevents the site from receiving a positive identity or compliance determination. The confirmed external reputation issue remains the material risk signal, while the site's ordinary software presentation does not resolve it.
- The homepage identifies the service as “Board Game Group” and describes organizational access, event scheduling, gaming spaces, and player queues; no license authority or license number is presented.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- The site is served from AS7018, operated by ATT-INTERNET4 – AT&T Enterprises, LLC, US.
- Transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YE2, valid until 2026-11-07T23:05:35+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential submission, the operator should be identified through an independent business registry or an independently sourced organizational contact, and any claimed service relationship should be confirmed through an offline or previously trusted channel. The authentication endpoint should be assessed for password handling, reuse protection, and whether credentials are transmitted only to the verified operator. Independent endpoint reputation checks should also be repeated before deployment or account creation.
- Two behavioral test runs completed successfully with 0 external XHR/fetch requests and 0 non-whitelisted external POST requests.
- The captured homepage contains 1 form, classified as login and cookie consent, with no sensitive form detected.
- The cookie notice states that essential cookies support sign-in and that Google Analytics is used with consent for optional analytics.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, with the available evidence supporting read-only observation only and not supporting account access or other sensitive interaction. The site's plausible software purpose and technically ordinary presentation do not overcome the confirmed external threat indicators.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one likely origin address on AT&T Enterprises, LLC’s AS7018 network, with no detected CDN edge layer. This provides identifiable hosting attribution but no meaningful CDN-based exposure mitigation; infrastructure characteristics do not offset the external reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent confirmation of the operator and service authenticity, activity should remain limited to non-interactive viewing, with no credentials, payments, or organizational data submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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
- 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 - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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 | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 boardgamegroup.com.
- The request stayed on boardgamegroup.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-10. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on ATT-INTERNET4, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ATT-INTERNET4 - AT&T Enterprises, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 107.128.255.127 |
| Name servers | NS35.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS36.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 10.95 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-10 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about boardgamegroup.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.