--- title: "Is claim-pharos.com a Scam? Trust Score 5/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "claim-pharos.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is claim-pharos.com a Scam? Risk Report, Score 5/100" trust_score: 5 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/claim-pharos.com assessed: 2026-10-22 --- # Is claim-pharos.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 5/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 5/100.** claim-pharos.com 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 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 | 3 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 1 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (4 snapshots) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the claim-pharos.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/claim-pharos.com/screenshots/first.png) _What claim-pharos.com 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 ### Overview This website, claim-pharos.com, is a very recently registered domain whose homepage currently returns only a minimal "404 Not Found" placeholder, with essentially no readable content. It shows no products, brand narrative, or stated business model. Its apparent purpose cannot be determined from what it publishes, and the name's "claim" wording does not match any content actually shown to visitors. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site carries a **confirmed blacklist listing**. Several independent reputation sources flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and an additional external blacklist source agrees, so the contradiction rests on corroborated third-party detections rather than a single source. The same reputation checks also associate the domain with known phishing activity, which weighs heavily given how young the domain is. The domain is only weeks old, its web-archive footprint is thin, and its DNS profile shows few subdomains. That pattern is typical of disposable infrastructure stood up for short-lived campaigns, and the homepage's empty 404 state could mean a lure page that is not currently serving content. No conflicting legal identities and no explicit brand impersonation were observed on the page, but with no content to inspect, their absence offers little reassurance. In behavioral testing the page made no external network calls, no wallet-connection or clipboard activity, and no cloaking. That is a neutral finding that cannot offset the external detections, because a dormant page can be activated later. Credential entry, wallet connection, and any payment or claim-style interaction are unsafe here. Evidence: - Homepage: returns a "404 Not Found" page with only a few characters of text and no navigation, products, or legal pages. - Domain registration: registered 2026-09-10 (~0.12 years old, about six weeks). - Web archive: 4 snapshots, all in 2026, from 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-22 (1 year tracked), showing a very short and sparse history. - Reputation checks: three engines rated the domain malicious and two suspicious, and the external blacklist corroborates this. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The site publishes no terms, privacy policy, about page, licensing statement, or corporate registration details, so nothing on it supports any regulated or professional status. The domain is registered through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com to a named individual with no organization listed. This does not link the site to any real-world brand or business, and the operator's identity is unverified. No third-party broker or regulatory-database record was matched. This is a verification note, not a verdict, and the decisive concern here is the reputation evidence above, not the absence of disclosures. Evidence: - Homepage: no company name, license number, registry reference, or legal pages are displayed. - Registration record: registrar PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com; registrant is an individual, organization field "N/A"; expires 2027-09-10. - Hosting: served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US). - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-09; domain-validated certificates confirm only control of the domain, not the operator's identity. ### What to Verify Next Before any engagement, a prospective user should independently establish whether any real organization claims this domain, using an official channel reached from a source other than this site. If the domain was received in a message, advertisement, or social post, the sender's authenticity should be confirmed through a separate route. Any claimed license or registration should be checked directly with the relevant regulator's public register, and the official contact channels of the supposed brand should be confirmed independently. If the domain is part of an organization's own estate, its owner should review the reputation flags and the page state with their hosting and security teams. Evidence: - Homepage: no claimed brand, regulator, or contact route is offered for checking, so verification must start from the original referral source. - Domain registration: the six-week-old registration means no long-standing public record exists to corroborate it. - Reputation checks: current detections should be re-checked against the major reputation lists after any remediation. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high risk. Corroborated blacklist detections combined with a newly created domain, a thin history, and a blank landing page outweigh the technically sound protocol hygiene. The operator's real-world identity remains unverified, and the site should be treated as a hazardous destination until the detections are cleared. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site sits behind a mainstream CDN and WAF provider, and all observed addresses are edge nodes, with the origin server not observable. This protective layer is a mild mitigating factor. It also prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted and allows content to be swapped quickly behind a stable edge address. A valid TLS certificate is in place, but it neither offsets the external threat detections nor establishes legitimacy. ### Closing Assessment The domain should be treated as unsafe for login, credential entry, wallet connection, or any financial interaction, and at most viewed passively from an isolated environment. Anyone who received a link to it should not act on that message, and should report it to the relevant security team or the impersonated organization if one is claimed. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive. ### 01 Governance - A threat feed lists this domain as malicious, and that caps the score whatever the other checks found. (Governance `rule:GOV_CRITICAL_BLACKLIST`) ### 02 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`) ### 03 Hosting and network - The domain was registered less than three months ago. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D`) - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN`) ### 04 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`) ## 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 claim-pharos.com. - The request stayed on claim-pharos.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-09-10. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-10. (Clear) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:3036::6815:11c5 | | Name servers | BURT.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, KIKI.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | WE1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-09 | | Domain age | 0.12 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-09-10 | | Archive first seen | 2026-09-10 | | Archive snapshots | 4 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 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. [Review TrustSniffer on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/trustsniffer.com) A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about claim-pharos.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. 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