Verdict
brainwavepc.com appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Local BrainWave Computers site describing services (repair, managed IT, custom PCs, data recovery), contact info, hours, location, and customer reviews. Contains coupons and links to request service. |
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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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
BrainWave Computers is a local computer repair and information-technology services website serving Beaverton, Oregon, presenting repair, managed IT, custom-built PC, data-recovery, sales, pickup, delivery, and related support services through a fee-for-service business model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the supplied evidence contains no phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation, or blacklist indicators. The homepage presents a coherent local-business profile with service categories, customer-review content, contact mechanisms, operating information, and request-service pathways rather than investment, credential-harvesting, or cryptocurrency functionality. Automated browsing did identify script and external-request anomalies, but these were attributed to page behavior and did not coincide with hidden forms, externally submitted password fields, wallet-drainer activity, cloaking, or other confirmed abuse patterns; they are therefore technical hygiene observations, not evidence of impersonation.
- Homepage behavior recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts, with 0 hidden forms, 0 externally submitted password forms, and 0 wallet-drainer runs.
- Homepage behavior recorded 8 external posts and 8 external requests, including 6 non-whitelisted XHR requests; the maximum observed external activity ratio was 95.4%.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, while malicious browsing-reputation status, blacklist status, and abuse reports were all negative or absent.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate local services business, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The site provides business-facing information through its homepage, contact materials, service descriptions, store information, warranty and return-policy content, reviews, and social links. No licensing or registration claim is established in the supplied page evidence; for a computer repair and retail business, this is a disclosure point to confirm where a particular service or jurisdiction requires it, rather than evidence of misconduct. A reputable registrar, long domain continuity, valid transport encryption, and clean external reputation materially support the site's established appearance.
- Domain registration: created 2009-01-30; age 17.56 years; expiration 2028-01-30; registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- Confirmed technical hosting evidence identifies AS14618, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-09-07T10:24:16+00:00.
- Homepage content includes the title “Computer IT Service Beaverton | Computer Sales Beaverton, OR,” service navigation, customer reviews, and social links.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent merchant-identity check should connect the business name and operating location to an offline or independently sourced business channel. The warranty and return-policy terms should be reviewed for service limitations, repair-liability provisions, refund conditions, and data-recovery disclaimers. Where a specific service requires authorization or licensing, the applicable state or local registry should be checked directly, and payment should use a method with appropriate transaction-protection and dispute rights.
- The homepage provides service-request and quote pathways that can be compared with independently obtained business information.
- The site includes dedicated Warranty and Return Policy, Contact, About, and Reviews pages for cross-checking before a transaction.
- The business model involves direct customer payments for repairs, IT services, equipment, and ancillary delivery services.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, although the operator’s real-world identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single visible origin candidate hosted in the United States on Oracle Corporation infrastructure, with no CDN detected in the supplied infrastructure assessment. This is a conventional, resolved cloud-hosting posture and offers limited infrastructure reassurance, but hosting arrangements alone do not establish business legitimacy.
- Infrastructure resolution: 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- Served from AS31898, Oracle Corporation, US.
- CDN vendor detection: none; registry: ARIN.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the available risk posture, provided that independent merchant-identity, policy, and payment-protection checks are completed before submitting credentials or making a payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 brainwavepc.com.
- The request stayed on brainwavepc.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 2028-01-30. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-10-07. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-AES, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 199.180.140.11 |
| Name servers | NS67.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS68.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-07 |
| Domain age | 17.56 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-01-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-10-07 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about brainwavepc.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.