--- title: "Is gmx-appvoting.com a Scam? Trust Score 5/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "gmx-appvoting.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is gmx-appvoting.com a Scam? Risk Report, Score 5/100" trust_score: 5 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/gmx-appvoting.com assessed: 2026-10-27 --- # Is gmx-appvoting.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 5/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 5/100.** gmx-appvoting.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, 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 | 17 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 | 7 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Watch | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted | | Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENET (Server in US) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the gmx-appvoting.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/gmx-appvoting.com/screenshots/first.png) _What gmx-appvoting.com 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. The website at gmx-appvoting.com is a single-page site titled as a "Rewards" page of a "Decentralized perpetual exchange" under the GMX name. It carries very little text and appears to be a voting or rewards portal for a crypto trading platform. Its domain is a hyphenated look-alike of that brand, so the apparent purpose is to draw visitors who expect an official GMX governance or rewards experience. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk This is a clearly cautionary case. Multiple major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and the combined external reputation picture amounts to a confirmed **blacklist** listing. Archive-side intelligence also records the domain as previously associated with phishing. The site borrows the GMX name in both its domain and its homepage title, yet the domain is a newly registered, hyphenated "appvoting" variant of that brand. This is the usual pattern of a look-alike built to intercept users of a known DeFi protocol, and a reward-claim or voting theme is a common lure for wallet-linked fraud. The domain is also not recognised as a listed protocol in the DeFi directory. This reads as brand-adjacent mimicry, not an official property. For balance, the behavioural sandbox saw no external data posts, no wallet-connection prompts, no clipboard manipulation and no hidden forms across three clean runs. Those results show nothing malicious was triggered in a controlled visit. They do not offset the reputation findings, and content on a flagged domain can change quickly. No conflicting legal identities were observed. Evidence: - Homepage: the page title presents a GMX-branded rewards page for a decentralized perpetual exchange, while the serving domain is a distinct "appvoting" look-alike. - Domain registration: registered 2026-03-22 (~0.6 years old), well after the legitimate brand's established presence. - Homepage behaviour: three sandbox runs, all successful, showed zero external requests and no wallet-connect or drainer activity, and the page held only a brief amount of text. - Reputation: several tier-one security vendors flag the domain, and the external blacklist check is confirmed. ### Regulatory Verification Notes No licensing, registration or legal-entity information could be assessed from the captured page. The page offers no identifiable operator, and the registration shows **ownership opacity** alongside incomplete registrant details, so no real-world operator can be connected to the site. Independent identity verification of the operator is absent. No third-party broker or regulatory listing matched this domain, so no reputational signal from that channel applies. The technical profile shows a standard, valid certificate and mainstream hosting. These are basic hygiene and are consistent with throwaway infrastructure just as with legitimate sites, so they carry no weight for legitimacy here. Evidence: - Registrar of record: NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with registration running 2026-03-22 to 2027-03-22. - Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). - TLS certificate: DV-level, issued by YE2, valid to 2026-12-15 (about 48 days remaining), which establishes only domain control. - Homepage: no company name, licence number or legal notice present in the captured content. ### What to Verify Next The official GMX channels, reached through a bookmark or the project's own verified documentation, should be used to confirm whether any rewards or voting programme exists, and whether it is hosted on this domain. Any link that led here, whether a message, social post or advertisement, should be treated as untrusted and its sender authenticity checked independently. Organisations should consider reporting the domain to their security team and to the registrar and hosting provider abuse channels, and blocking it at the network perimeter. Evidence: - Homepage: the GMX-branded title is the only brand claim, and nothing on the page ties the domain to the project's official sites. - Reputation: the current vendor detections and blacklist status give a concrete basis for an abuse report. - Registration: the domain was registered only about seven months ago, which is relevant when checking the claimed association with an established protocol. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed external threat detections, together with a brand-mimicking domain, decisively outweigh the neutral technical hygiene and the benign sandbox results. The site cannot be treated as an official or trustworthy property of the project it names. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site is served through Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses are edge servers, so the origin host was not observable. This protection is a mitigating signal only. Edge-only visibility prevents independent hosting verification and can mask rapid content changes, and it cannot offset the reputation findings. The infrastructure is mainstream and uses a valid certificate, but this implies nothing about the intent of the operator behind it. ### Closing Assessment The site should not be used for login, credential entry, wallet connection or any financial interaction. At most it may be viewed read-only from an isolated environment, and users should leave it and use only independently confirmed official channels. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, registration and ownership. ### 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 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 gmx-appvoting.com. - The request stayed on gmx-appvoting.com. 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 2027-03-22. (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 | 2606:4700:3031::ac43:deb4 | | Name servers | JILL.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, LYNN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | YE2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-15 | | Domain age | 0.60 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-03-22 | | Archive first seen | Not available | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 17 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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