Verdict
ghostcrtv.com appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Ghost Creative is a boutique branding and fractional CMO service for CPG and ecommerce brands (targeting $1M–$20M revenue). The site describes services, experience (28 years), an engagement model (monthly retainer), and provides contact email and a call-to-action to schedule a discovery call. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 19% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 16 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2012.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Ghost Creative is a boutique branding and fractional CMO consultancy for consumer packaged goods and ecommerce businesses, particularly those in the stated $1 million–$20 million revenue range. The site presents strategic services covering brand positioning, packaging, Amazon and ecommerce strategy, product strategy, creative direction, paid and lifecycle marketing, and AI-assisted workflows, with engagements structured around monthly retainers and scoped consulting work.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The site's content is consistent with a conventional professional-services landing page: it contains informational service material, internal navigation, and a discovery-call path, without login functionality, sensitive forms, wallet activity, hidden forms, cloaking, or suspicious browser behavior. A reputational signal exists at the hosting-IP level, where abuse reports concern shared infrastructure rather than the website specifically; this does not establish site-level malicious activity. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk site, while independently confirming the real-world operator remains appropriate before a commercial engagement.
- The homepage and service pages present agency and fractional-CMO services without phishing indicators, login forms, wallet-connect activity, or sensitive data-collection forms.
- The domain was registered on 2012-01-13 and is approximately 14.61 years old.
- Historical records show 172 archive snapshots across 10 tracked years, spanning 2012–2022.
- The shared hosting IP has 16 abuse reports attributed to Amazon.com, Inc. CDN infrastructure rather than specifically to Ghost Creative.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents Ghost Creative as a branding and marketing consultancy and attributes the stated experience to Steve, but those on-site representations do not independently verify the operator's legal identity. No regulated-finance license or registration number is claimed on the reviewed pages; for this stated consulting business model, that is a disclosure and applicability item rather than evidence of deception. Available reputation checks found no malicious, phishing, or blacklist classification, and the absence of a broker-dataset match provides additional contextual support without constituting a legal or regulatory determination. The overall evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate service business, with identity verification appropriately remaining separate from the high-trust website assessment.
- The homepage and About content identify the business as Ghost Creative and describe Steve's professional background.
- The site's hosting infrastructure is AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The site's TLS certificate is issued by YE1 using domain validation (DV), valid until 2026-10-10T02:23:48+00:00.
- The reviewed business pages contain service and contact information but no stated regulatory license number or registration reference.
What to Verify Next
Before entering into a paid engagement, the prospective client should independently confirm the contracting entity and the authority of the person representing it, review the written scope, retainer, cancellation, and refund terms, and confirm that the payment method provides appropriate commercial protections. Any licensing or registration requirement should be checked with the relevant jurisdiction or professional registry if the proposed services extend beyond ordinary marketing consultancy. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before sensitive documents or payment details are exchanged.
- The site offers a discovery-call process rather than an online account or transaction workflow.
- The reviewed pages contain no sensitive submission form, password field, or untrusted external form destination.
- The business model is described as monthly retainers and scoped consulting engagements, making contract and payment-term review the relevant pre-engagement control.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate, low-risk professional-services website. No contradictory scam or impersonation indicators were observed, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with the observed edge address hosted on AS16509 by Amazon.com, Inc. and the origin server not observable in this analysis. This configuration is a mitigating security and availability signal, but it is not independent proof of the operator's identity or business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment interactions should follow ordinary independent checks of the contracting party, commercial terms, and payment protections before commitment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 16 reports on hosting IP 75.2.60.5 (Amazon.com, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 19% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 ghostcrtv.com.
- The request stayed on ghostcrtv.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-13. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-05-13. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 75.2.60.5 |
| Name servers | NS21.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS22.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-10 |
| Domain age | 14.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-13 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-05-13 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 19% confidence, 16 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ghostcrtv.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. A site can change after it is assessed.