Verdict
homewizard.co shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Local Home Wizard 'we buy houses' landing page for West Palm Beach, FL. Primary purpose is to capture seller leads (property address, phone, email) and offer cash purchases. Contact phone, physical office address and email are present on the page. |
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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 | 7 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 6.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a local real-estate lead-capture landing page operated under the “Home Wizard” name and aimed at homeowners in West Palm Beach, Florida. It presents a cash home-buying service promising to purchase properties “as is,” without fees, agents, or commissions, and its primary business function is collecting seller and property information for follow-up.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed external threat indicators materially outweigh the site’s otherwise conventional presentation. The homepage appears to represent a genuine property-buying workflow rather than a copied financial or cryptocurrency service, and no brand impersonation, phishing form, or identity inconsistency was identified in the supplied page analysis. However, the domain is confirmed blacklisted, with multiple malicious detections including flags from Fortinet and Sophos. This creates a significant risk for submitting property details, telephone numbers, email addresses, or other sensitive information, regardless of the benign appearance of the real-estate content.
- The homepage contains three forms for lead capture, contact, and property submission, requesting a property address, telephone number, and email address.
- The homepage advertises cash purchases for West Palm Beach properties and claims “No Fees,” “No Agents,” and “No Commissions.”
- External reputation analysis recorded 7 malicious detections, including Fortinet and Sophos, and confirmed a blacklist hit.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2019-11-21, with an age of 6.75 years; the historical record spans 2013-03-31 through 2026-06-10, covering 14 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content identifies the service as “Home Wizard” and provides contact channels and a physical office address, but it does not present a license number, licensing authority, or independently verifiable corporate identity. The operator’s real-world identity therefore remains unverified. The absence of an apparent license claim is a disclosure and verification issue rather than, by itself, proof of fraud; in this case, it must be considered alongside the confirmed external threat detections. Registration is through Wild West Domains, LLC. The site’s transport security is present but limited to domain validation and should not be treated as evidence of operator legitimacy.
- The homepage identifies the service as “Home Wizard” and states that it buys houses in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- The available homepage content does not state a licensing authority, license number, or independently verifiable legal-entity identification.
- The domain is registered through Wild West Domains, LLC; the recorded creation date is 2019-11-21 and the expiration date is 2026-11-21.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-22T01:52:38+00:00; the observed server is AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
What to Verify Next
Before any substantive engagement, an independent party should confirm that the named business is registered to conduct the represented property-buying activity in the relevant Florida jurisdiction and that the stated office and telephone channels connect to the same legal entity. Any proposed purchase agreement, valuation, deposit, title instruction, or transfer of personal information should be reviewed through an independently sourced attorney, title company, or other established professional channel. Until those checks are complete, interaction should be limited to passive review rather than form submission or transaction activity.
- Verification should begin with the relevant Florida business and property-services registries rather than relying on the site’s own identity statements.
- The homepage is structured around direct submission of seller and property information, making independent identity confirmation material before engagement.
- Any payment, contract, title, or closing instruction should be validated through an independently obtained professional contact.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The site’s ordinary local-service presentation does not offset the confirmed external threat and blacklist indicators, while independent operator identity verification remains incomplete. The evidence supports treating the website as untrusted for credentials, personal-data submission, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, and the observed edge infrastructure is associated with DigitalOcean, LLC on AS14061; the origin server was not observable in the supplied infrastructure analysis. This provides some defensive separation at the network edge, but it is only a mitigating infrastructure characteristic and does not validate the website’s operator or content.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate course is to avoid submitting information or entering into any financial, contractual, or property transaction through the site unless independent registry, identity, and professional-channel checks first establish the counterparty’s legitimacy.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - 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
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 homewizard.co.
- The request stayed on homewizard.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Wild West Domains, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-21. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-03-31. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Wild West Domains, LLC |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 50.112.162.40 |
| Name servers | NS07.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS08.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-22 |
| Domain age | 6.75 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-21 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-03-31 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 7 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about homewizard.co 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.