--- title: "Is helpvotes.forum a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "helpvotes.forum" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is helpvotes.forum a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/helpvotes.forum assessed: 2026-10-19 --- # Is helpvotes.forum a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** helpvotes.forum 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 75%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Short landing page prompting users to continue to a 'secure voting page' for a CoinMarketCap community listing vote. Minimal content and a single CTA. | ## 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 | 8 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 29 days old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (3 snapshots) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the helpvotes.forum homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/helpvotes.forum/screenshots/first.png) _What helpvotes.forum 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). - 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 flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. This website is a minimal landing page for a purported CoinMarketCap community listing vote. It presents a “Community Vote” prompt, claims that voting is live, and directs visitors to continue to a “secure voting page,” with an apparent referral or traffic-conversion purpose rather than a substantive service. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site presents a high-risk sensitive-interaction posture. A confirmed blacklist hit and multiple external malicious detections are decisive contradictions, even though the landing page itself contains no login form, wallet connection, or direct payment form. The homepage is unusually thin, using a single call to action and a “secure voting page” claim without explaining the operator, voting mechanics, or destination. Behavioral inspection also recorded three suspicious inline scripts and substantial DOM mutation after interaction. No distinct legal-entity identity contradiction or confirmed brand-impersonation finding was supplied, but the external threat detections make the site unsuitable for credentials, financial activity, or following the voting flow. Evidence: - Homepage: states “The CoinMarketCap community listing vote is live” and directs visitors to continue to a “secure voting page.” - Homepage behavior: 3 suspicious inline scripts were observed, with a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 1,404. - External reputation assessment: 8 malicious detections and 2 suspicious detections were recorded, together with a confirmed blacklist hit. - Domain registration and archive record: registered in 2026 and approximately 0.08 years old; 3 archive snapshots spanning 2026–2026, with 1 year tracked. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The site does not present a substantive legal, corporate, licensing, or regulatory disclosure in the supplied page content. Its visible attribution is limited to “© 2026 MarketVote,” which is not sufficient to independently establish the operator’s identity or authority to represent a CoinMarketCap-related voting process. The available identity assessment therefore remains unverified, and governance and ownership transparency are unclear. A valid domain-validated certificate and identifiable hosting infrastructure are technical facts, not evidence of authorization or legitimacy. The one reported abuse event relates to shared provider infrastructure and is not independently attributable to this website; it is therefore treated only as contextual infrastructure reputation rather than proof of misconduct. Evidence: - Homepage: contains approximately 210 characters of visible text and no stated corporate entity, license, registration number, or regulatory authority. - Domain registration: Registrar.eu; creation date 2026-09-21T07:34:02Z and expiration date 2027-09-21T07:34:02Z. - Hosting infrastructure: served from AS207043, DEDIK-IO - DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, GB; observed country BG. - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-12-20T06:52:57+00:00. ### What to Verify Next The purported vote should be confirmed through an independently accessed CoinMarketCap announcement or official support channel rather than through the landing page’s call to action. The destination should be inspected in an isolated environment before any interaction, and the operator name, authorization, and final destination should be matched against independently sourced records. No credentials, payment information, or other sensitive data should be submitted through the flow. Evidence: - Homepage: provides only one “Continue” action and no independently verifiable operator contact or authorization details. - Page behavior: no sensitive form was observed, but the interaction generated external requests and substantial DOM changes. - Technical assessment: the site was successfully reached over HTTPS, but transport encryption does not validate the voting claim or the destination’s ownership. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is critical and incompatible with sensitive interaction. The site’s apparent voting purpose is not supported by sufficient operator transparency, while confirmed external threat detections create a decisive trust failure. Identity remains unverified, and the site should be treated as unsuitable for credentials, financial activity, or other consequential engagement. ### Infrastructure Integrity The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the origin server was not observable; this reduces direct origin exposure but can also limit independent infrastructure verification and does not offset the external threat findings. Evidence: - Hosting infrastructure: Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was detected. - Network resolution: 1 edge IP was observed and 0 likely origin IPs were identified. ### Closing Assessment Prospective users should limit activity to passive observation and should not follow the site’s call to action or provide sensitive information. Any legitimate voting activity should be initiated through an independently verified official channel. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 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, behaviour in a sandbox, history in the web archive, page content. ### 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 Behaviour in a sandbox - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS`) - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE`) - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH`) ### 03 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`) ### 04 Page content - The page has very little readable content. (Page content `rule:PAGE_CONTENT_THIN`) ### Signals weighed against the site - AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 85.239.149.99 (DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website. ## 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 helpvotes.forum. - The request stayed on helpvotes.forum. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under Registrar.eu. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-09-21. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-21. (Clear) - It is hosted on DEDIK-IO, from a server in BG. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Registrar.eu | | Hosting | DEDIK-IO - DEDIK SERVICES LIMITED, GB | | Country | BG | | Server IP | 85.239.149.99 | | Name servers | asa.ns.cloudflare.com, marek.ns.cloudflare.com | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 1 | | Edge IP addresses | 1 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | YR1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-20 | | Domain age | 0.08 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-09-21 | | Archive first seen | 2026-09-21 | | Archive snapshots | 3 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report \| 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 helpvotes.forum 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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Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/helpvotes.forum · assessed 2026-10-19.*