Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
castvote.forum shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | Short landing/promo prompting users to continue to a 'secure voting page' for a CoinMarketCap community listing vote (branded as MarketVote). Minimal descriptive content and no visible forms or contact details in provided text. |
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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.
| Malware engines | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 1% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 26 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
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.
The website is a minimal promotional landing page branded “MarketVote” that presents a call to continue to a purported CoinMarketCap community listing vote. Its apparent purpose is to direct visitors from a generic voting portal to an external voting flow, but the page provides little information about the operator, service, or destination.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed external security detections and a confirmed blacklist status create a critical risk posture for interaction with this site. The homepage’s reference to a “CoinMarketCap community listing vote” and a “secure voting page” is not supported by meaningful explanation, operator information, or visible evidence of an official relationship; this is a material claim–evidence mismatch, although the available page analysis did not independently classify the site as brand impersonation. The page also exhibited three suspicious inline scripts and substantial post-interaction DOM change, which are relevant technical warning signs for a redirect-oriented landing page. One abuse report applies to the shared hosting IP rather than being uniquely attributed to this domain, but it remains a negative infrastructure-reputation signal. No contradictions involving conflicting legal identities were observed; the decisive contradiction is the external threat and blacklist evidence.
- The homepage is listed by multiple external security services as malicious or suspicious, with four malicious and three suspicious detections, and is subject to a confirmed blacklist signal.
- The homepage states “The CoinMarketCap community listing vote is live” and directs visitors to continue to a “secure voting page,” while providing only approximately 210 characters of descriptive content and no visible operator or contact details.
- The homepage’s observed behavior included three suspicious inline scripts, nine external XHR requests, nine external posts, and a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 1,406.
- The domain was registered on 2026-09-24 and is approximately 0.07 years old; one archive snapshot was recorded, spanning 2026–2026 with one year tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The visible landing page does not identify a legal operator, disclose a license or registration number, or explain whether the purported voting activity is officially connected to CoinMarketCap. The real-world operator therefore remains unverified, and the absence of substantive legal or regulatory disclosure is a material verification gap rather than proof of a financial-services violation. A valid transport certificate and identifiable hosting do not resolve that identity or authorization question. The available broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which does not override the separate external security findings.
- The site is served through AS207043 by DEDIK-IO - DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, GB.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-12-23 19:12:33 UTC.
- The homepage contains no visible company name, licensing authority, registration number, or substantive terms describing the operator’s authority to conduct the promoted activity.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction beyond passive viewing, an institution should confirm through CoinMarketCap’s independently accessed official channels that the advertised community vote and MarketVote branding are genuine and authorized. Any claimed operator should be matched to an independently obtained corporate record and, where relevant, the applicable regulatory or platform registry; the result should include the exact legal entity and authorization scope. The destination reached through the page should be inspected independently rather than accessed through the landing-page call to action, and official support or contact channels should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced route.
- The homepage provides a promotional call to action but no independently verifiable operator or authorization details.
- The page analysis records no visible forms, credentials collection, or contact details, but the destination of the “Continue” action is not established by the supplied content.
- The site’s identity-verification status remains unverified.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a critical trust posture and elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site may be viewed only as an untrusted promotional page; its legitimacy and relationship to the referenced platform are not established, and the confirmed external threat signals outweigh the limited benign technical indicators.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure of the origin, but it is not evidence of legitimacy. The observed address was an edge address, the origin was not observable in this analysis, and the infrastructure was associated with DEDIK-IO - DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, credential submission, financial activity, or other sensitive interaction; any required investigation should proceed through independently sourced official channels rather than through this page.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, behaviour in a sandbox, history in the web archive, page content.
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 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE
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 Page content
- The page has very little readable content.Page content
rule:PAGE_CONTENT_THIN - The page content shows at least one warning sign that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_SOME
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 2.27.248.227 (DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 1% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 castvote.forum.
- The request stayed on castvote.forum. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Registrar.eu. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-25. Clear
- It is hosted on DEDIK-IO, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Registrar.eu |
|---|---|
| Hosting | DEDIK-IO - DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, GB |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2.27.248.227 |
| Name servers | janet.ns.cloudflare.com, trevor.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 0.07 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 1% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about castvote.forum 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.