--- title: "Is efilaunch.live a Scam? Trust Score 1/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "efilaunch.live" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is efilaunch.live a Scam? Risk Report, Score 1/100" trust_score: 1 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/efilaunch.live assessed: 2026-10-25 --- # Is efilaunch.live a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 1/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 1/100.** efilaunch.live 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 2026-10-25 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 | 9 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 267 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 4 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (1 snapshot) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the efilaunch.live homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/efilaunch.live/screenshots/first.png) _What efilaunch.live served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-25. 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 ### Security Alert Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. This website presents a single landing page titled "ether.fi โ€” Claim $EFI" on the domain efilaunch.live. It invites visitors to claim a token called $EFI, a token-claim or airdrop-style proposition framed around the ether.fi name. The page carries only a short block of text, and no operator, product documentation or corporate details could be tied to it. Its apparent purpose is to draw visitors into a crypto-asset claim flow under a third-party brand, but that association is unconfirmed. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk This site carries an **elevated, evidence-backed risk** and is **blacklisted**. Several leading security vendors currently flag it as malicious, and an external blacklist listing is confirmed. That is a decisive contradiction. The domain is a newly created, standalone address, yet its page title borrows an established DeFi brand name and offers a token "claim". This is the classic structure of a claim-lure or brand-adjacent campaign. The evidence does not establish that the brand owner is connected to the site, and no conflicting legal identities appear. The brand framing therefore counts as an unverified association claim that, together with the blacklisting, raises the exposure for anyone who might connect a wallet or sign a transaction. A large body of abuse reports exists for the shared provider address the site resolves to. Those reports are attributed to the infrastructure provider's many tenants and are discounted, so they are not counted against this site. The sandbox runs found no external data posts, no wallet-connect or wallet-drainer behavior, no clipboard manipulation, no hidden forms and no cloaking. This is a mild mitigating observation, but it cannot offset the blacklisting, and high console-error volume and a low-depth page suggest a thin, hastily assembled build. Evidence: - Homepage title reads "ether.fi โ€” Claim $EFI", pairing an established brand name with a token-claim call to action on an unrelated domain. - Domain registered in 2026 (~111 days old), consistent with a recently stood-up campaign domain. - Web archive holds 1 snapshot, captured 2026-07-06 (1 year tracked), so there is no meaningful prior history for the domain. - Homepage sandbox runs showed no external posts, wallet-drainer activity, clipboard writes or cloaking, but recorded repeated console errors. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The captured page does not identify an operating company, a registered address, a licensing authority or a responsible legal entity. The site also offers no accountable ownership or governance information, so **ownership opacity** applies. The operator's real-world identity could not be independently connected to any brand or person. Because a token-claim proposition implies handling value, the absence of any disclosure is material here. It is not proof of wrongdoing in itself, but it removes any means of recourse. No regulatory registration was found, and no broker-reputation record matched. The site is not recognized as a known DeFi protocol. Technical hygiene is basic: the site has valid transport encryption, but only domain-validated, which proves control of the domain and says nothing about who operates it. Evidence: - Homepage content names no company, licence or registry number. - Served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US). - TLS certificate issued by YR2 (DV), valid to 2026-12-03. - Not recognized as a DeFi protocol in DeFiLlama, so no TVL or market footprint supports the claim proposition. ### What to Verify Next Anyone who encounters this site through a message, advertisement or social post should treat the offer as unverified. The claim should be checked only by independently navigating to the brand's officially published channels, such as its verified social accounts or documentation, and confirming whether any $EFI distribution exists. The domain should not be reached through the originating link. Any legitimacy claim should be tested against the brand's own announcements, not against this page. Official support and contact routes should be confirmed through those independent channels. Where a real obligation exists, an authorised registry or the brand's issuer should confirm any licence or operator details. Evidence: - The homepage offers no verifiable operator identity or official-channel reference to test against. - The domain is only about 111 days old, with a single archive capture, so no independent history can corroborate it. - The page is presented as a one-page claim funnel, with no supporting documentation pages observed. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed adverse security-vendor detections and a blacklist listing, combined with a very young domain, an unverified brand association and an unidentified operator, converge on a site that cannot be regarded as trustworthy. Protective technical measures do not change this conclusion. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site is hosted on Amazon-operated address space behind a protective CDN/WAF layer, and every observed address is an edge address. The origin was not observable, so the hosting arrangement cannot be independently verified, and an edge-only view can mask rapid content changes behind a stable front. Valid encryption and mainstream infrastructure are treated purely as mitigating factors. They do not establish legitimacy and cannot offset the reputational findings. ### Closing Assessment The site should be treated as unsafe for any interaction involving login, credentials, wallet connection, signing or payment. At most, it may be viewed in a read-only manner, such as for analysis. Anyone who has already interacted with it should disconnect and review wallet approvals, rotate any exposed credentials, and report the page to the impersonated brand and the relevant security channels. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, hosting and network, registration and ownership. ### 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 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`) ### 03 Behaviour in a sandbox - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH`) - Many of the responses the page received looked generated rather than served normally. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_SYNTHETIC_RESPONSES_HIGH`) ### 04 Hosting and network - The domain was registered between three and six months ago. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_YOUNG_6M`) ### 05 Registration and ownership - The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`) ### Signals weighed against the site - AbuseIPDB: 267 reports on hosting IP 216.198.79.1 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website. ## 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 efilaunch.live. - The request stayed on efilaunch.live. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-07-06. (Clear) - It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Not available | | Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 216.198.79.1 | | Name servers | Not available | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 1 | | Edge IP addresses | 1 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | YR2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-03 | | Domain age | 0.30 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | Not available | | Archive first seen | 2026-07-06 | | Archive snapshots | 1 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 267 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 efilaunch.live 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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