--- title: "Is eltoadpepe.xyz a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "eltoadpepe.xyz" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is eltoadpepe.xyz a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/eltoadpepe.xyz assessed: 2026-10-27 --- # Is eltoadpepe.xyz a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** eltoadpepe.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 2026-10-27 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%. ## 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 | 12 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 | 3 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Never archived (No public history of this site) | Watch | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the eltoadpepe.xyz homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/eltoadpepe.xyz/screenshots/first.png) _What eltoadpepe.xyz served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-27. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity). - 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. El Toad Pepe is a single-domain promotional website for a meme-coin project branded "El Toad Pepe ($TOAD)". Its homepage carries the tagline "That Grin Means Something". It presents a cryptocurrency token themed on the Pepe frog meme and appears to exist to promote the token and attract visitors toward holding or trading it. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk Multiple independent security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, including several tier-one engines, and the site also appears on an external blacklist. This is a **confirmed blacklist condition**. It is the decisive finding and is serious enough to override every mitigating technical signal. Taken with a domain registered only weeks ago and a meme-token theme, a category associated with rapid launch-and-abandon schemes, the pattern warrants a clearly cautionary posture. No conflicting legal identities and no brand impersonation were observed, and the wallet-interaction tests found no drainer behaviour, clipboard tampering or content cloaking. Even so, the homepage generated a high proportion of traffic to external hosts, several background requests and form submissions to third parties, and repeated script errors during browsing. That behaviour is consistent with a hastily assembled or externally dependent page and offers no reassurance against the vendor detections. Evidence: - Homepage and domain reputation: several tier-one security vendors currently rate the site malicious, and an external blacklist also lists it. - Domain provenance: registered 8 August 2026 (~0.22 years, ~79 days old), expiring 8 August 2027, through Global Domain Group LLC. - Homepage behaviour: three of three sandbox visits completed, with 14 external background requests, 4 external POST submissions, and 10 console errors. No wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack or cloaking activity was detected. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The operator's real-world identity could not be independently established, and ownership of the domain is opaque. That opacity is an administrative limitation, not an identity contradiction. No financial or virtual-asset regulatory standing for the project could be linked to the site, and the third-party broker reputation database returned no match. That absence is neutral and is not a verdict. Any token sale, trading or yield function would, in most jurisdictions, fall under virtual-asset or securities rules, so the lack of an identifiable, accountable operator matters more here than for an informational site. The transport-layer posture is routine and offers no evidence of legitimacy. Evidence: - Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). - Encryption: the TLS certificate was issued by WE1, with domain-validation (DV) only and no organisational identity validation, and is valid to 2027-01-04. - Third-party database: no broker-reputation record matched the site. ### What to Verify Next Before any engagement, the token's contract address and the project's official social channels should be confirmed through an independent route, such as a reputable block explorer or the channels of exchanges that claim to list it. The site's own links should not be used for this. The flagged status should be re-checked on the major reputation services in a few weeks, to see whether the detections persist or clear. If the project claims any licensing or registration, it should be confirmed directly with the issuing registry. Evidence: - Homepage token branding: the "$TOAD" ticker and tagline are marketing claims and cannot be treated as proof of a legitimate token. - Domain age: a registration of about eleven weeks leaves no operating history against which to judge the project's claims. - Reputation status: the current vendor detections are the baseline against which any future re-check should be compared. ### Summary Verdict The assessment is critically low and security-forward. Active external threat detections, compounded by a very young domain and an unestablished operator, outweigh the site's technically sound basics. The available evidence does not support treating the site as safe for sensitive interaction. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and only edge addresses were observed, so the true hosting origin could not be seen. A valid certificate from a recognised issuer and mainstream infrastructure are mitigating factors only. They are widely available to any registrant, including malicious ones, and cannot offset the reputation findings. Edge-only visibility also means page content could be changed quickly without any change in the observable hosting. ### Closing Assessment Wallet connections, credential entry and payments or token purchases should be avoided entirely. Any review of the site should be limited to passive, read-only viewing from an isolated environment. Nothing should be downloaded from it. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 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, hosting and network, behaviour in a sandbox, 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 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`) ### 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`) - The page produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH`) ### 04 Registration and ownership - The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`) ## 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 eltoadpepe.xyz. - The request stayed on eltoadpepe.xyz. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under Global Domain Group LLC. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-08-08. (Noted) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Global Domain Group LLC | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::ac43:b91c | | Name servers | KONNOR.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, VENUS.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 | 2027-01-04 | | Domain age | 0.22 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-08-08 | | Archive first seen | Not available | | Archive snapshots | 0 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 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 eltoadpepe.xyz 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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