--- title: "Is cousinprotect.xyz a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "cousinprotect.xyz" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is cousinprotect.xyz a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/cousinprotect.xyz assessed: 2026-10-19 --- # Is cousinprotect.xyz a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** cousinprotect.xyz 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 2026-10-19 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Marketing page for a crypto trading protection tool sold as a Free and Pro subscription. It promises rug detection across 13 chains, auto-sell exits in the same block through a private relay, and read-only, non-custodial operation. The claims are unverified, the company identity is limited to a copyright line, and the activation method asks users to run a bookmarklet on fomo.family. The auto-sell claim contradicts the no-signing claim. | ## 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 | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 26 days old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE1) | Noted | | Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENET (Server in US) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the cousinprotect.xyz homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/cousinprotect.xyz/screenshots/first.png) _What cousinprotect.xyz served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-19. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity). - No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time. - The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. Cousin's Protection (marketed as an "Anti Rug Agent") is a single-page product site for a crypto trading protection tool sold on a freemium model, with a free tier and a Pro tier at $9 per month (a yearly option is discounted by 36%). The homepage promises rug-pull detection across 13 blockchains, monitoring of developer wallets and contract upgrades, and an "Auto-Sell Protection" feature. It says this feature exits positions through a private relay in the same block, with an average execution time of 0.3 seconds. Activation requires the user to drag a bookmark into the browser and run it on a third-party trading site, fomo.family, and the site says no account is needed. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk A confirmed external blacklist hit and the page's internal contradictions place this site in a clearly high-risk category. A tier-one security vendor currently flags the domain, and further engines return suspicious verdicts. No brand impersonation or conflicting legal identities were observed, and no phishing was confirmed. The threat comes from the combination of the external detections and the way the product works. The homepage describes the tool as "read-only" with no signing, yet it also advertises automatic sell execution through a private relay, which cannot happen without the ability to act on a user's trades. It also claims that no server holds positions, while describing server-side position tracking and stored alert history. A bookmarklet runs script code inside the third-party trading page. In that position it can read page content and session context and trigger actions in the user's name. The site offers no code audit, named team or independent attestation to support its claims. The statistics are also unverifiable: "250k known rug addresses", "50k plus exchange deposit addresses watched in real time", and flagging of repeat scammers "within 2 minutes of launch". The "Trade with a shield" framing and the urgency language ("Built for FOMO") target traders who may act quickly, and the domain's age fits a short-lived or opportunistic operation. No wallet-connection prompts, clipboard tampering, hidden forms or external credential forms were observed during behavioural testing. That reduces the likelihood of an overt drainer on the page itself, but it does not offset the confirmed blacklist and the contradictory control claims. Evidence: - Domain registered on 2026-09-23 (~25 days old), which is very recent for a service claiming wide on-chain coverage. - Homepage: states a read-only, non-custodial design, while the same page advertises same-block auto-sell exits and server-side position tracking. - How-it-works section: tells users to drag a bookmark into the browser and activate it on fomo.family, with enabling "about 15 seconds" and "No account". - Behavioural testing across three runs found no wallet-connect prompts, clipboard writes or hidden forms. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The site shows no licence, registration number, legal entity, postal address, named team or published audit. Its only identity artefact is a copyright line, so the operator cannot be tied to any accountable legal person. For a product that claims to control trade exits on users' behalf, this gap is significant. The site makes no regulatory claims at all, so there is nothing on the page that could be checked against a registry. No third-party broker or regulatory listing was matched, and no endorsement of any kind is present. Evidence: - Homepage and footer: the company identity is limited to a copyright line, with no registration, address or licensing information. - Pricing section: describes paid subscriptions and exit-control features but names no responsible entity or terms of service. - Hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare); the TLS certificate is domain-validated (DV), issued by YE1 and valid to 2026-12-22, which confirms encryption only and says nothing about the operator. - The domain is registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited. ### What to Verify Next No interaction should proceed until the claims are independently substantiated. First, a request should go to the operator for a named legal entity, jurisdiction and registered address, which should be checked against the relevant corporate registry. Next, any independent security audit of the bookmarklet code should be located, and the script's actual behaviour reviewed by a qualified party in an isolated browser profile with no wallets or sessions loaded. Third, the claimed 13-chain coverage and the rug-address database should be tested against known historical rug events. The official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before any reliance on them. Evidence: - Homepage: the detection database size, chain count and 0.3-second execution time are unsupported by any published methodology. - Security section: asserts read-only operation but offers no audit report or source repository. - Pricing page: the Pro tier is built around controlling trade exits, which raises the potential impact of any hidden capability. ### Summary Verdict The assessment is critical and cautionary. Third-party detections, internally contradictory security claims, an unattributable operator and a brand-new domain converge on a high-risk posture, and the technical hygiene of the site does not change that conclusion. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all four observed addresses are edge servers, so the origin host cannot be observed or independently attributed. Bot-protection challenges were present during testing. Protective infrastructure is a mitigating factor only and cannot offset the external detections. It also limits independent verification of where the content is actually served from. ### Closing Assessment The bookmarklet should not be installed or run on any trading site, and no wallet, login, credential or payment interaction should take place. At most, the site may be viewed passively until a verifiable operator and an independent code audit are available. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, page content, hosting and network. ### 01 External reputation - Several malware engines flagged this domain. (External reputation `rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH`) ### 02 Page content - The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator. (Page content `rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW`) - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use. (Page content `rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG`) - The page content shows at least one warning sign that deceptive sites commonly use. (Page content `rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_SOME`) - The browser raised a warning while loading the page. (Page content `rule:PAGE_BROWSER_FLAGS_SUSPICIOUS`) ### 03 Hosting and network - The domain was registered less than three months ago. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D`) ## Identity verification | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | 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 cousinprotect.xyz. - The request stayed on cousinprotect.xyz. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-09-23. (Noted) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::6815:348e | | Name servers | CARRERA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, MARVIN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | YE1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-22 | | Domain age | 0.07 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-09-23 | | Archive first seen | Not available | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 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. 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