--- title: "Is lacepc.com a Scam? Trust Score 2/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "lacepc.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is lacepc.com a Scam? Risk Report, Score 2/100" trust_score: 2 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/lacepc.com assessed: 2026-10-25 --- # Is lacepc.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 2/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 2/100.** lacepc.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 2026-10-25 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 | 1 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 | 2 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 lacepc.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/lacepc.com/screenshots/first.png) _What lacepc.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-25. 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 flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. Lacepc.com is a very recently registered website. Its homepage is titled "Lace Desktop — Explore Web3 on Windows and macOS" and presents itself as a desktop application for exploring Web3 on Windows and macOS. Its apparent purpose is to steer visitors toward a downloadable Web3 client, which implies wallet-style interaction with blockchain assets. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk This assessment carries a **confirmed adverse reputation signal**. A third-party reputation source currently lists the domain as blacklisted. Independent threat-intelligence engines add one malicious and several suspicious detections, so the listing is not an isolated or stale entry. The available evidence does not say what the detections relate to, and none of it shows conflicting legal identities or a documented brand-impersonation claim. The adverse listing is nonetheless decisive. It is compounded by two things. The domain was registered only weeks ago. The offering is also a Web3 desktop client, a category where a malicious download or a wallet-connection lure can cause irreversible loss of funds. Behavioural testing of the homepage showed that almost all of its network activity went to external destinations, and it produced repeated browser console errors. All external calls went to recognised destinations, and no wallet-drainer behaviour, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms or credential-capturing external forms were observed. These are secondary observations and do not offset the listing. Evidence: - Homepage: an external reputation source reports the domain as blacklisted, with one malicious and three suspicious engine verdicts. - Domain provenance: registered 2026-08-27 (~0.16 years, about 59 days old), so the domain has no established operating history. - Homepage behaviour: 27 external XHR/fetch requests and 9 external POSTs across 3 test runs, with up to 97.6% of requests going to external hosts, and 9 console errors recorded. - Homepage behaviour: no wallet-provider injection, clipboard writes or external password forms were detected. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The captured page content does not identify a legal entity, a licensing authority or a registration number, and the operator's real-world identity is not independently verified. Registration details are incomplete on the ownership side, which amounts to ownership opacity. That is an administrative limitation, not an identity contradiction. No third-party broker or regulatory-registry match was found for this domain, and nothing in the evidence supports any claim that the site is licensed or supervised. Evidence: - Registrar of record is NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with registration running to 2027-08-27. - Hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). - TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2026-12-03, with about 38 days remaining. DV confirms domain control only, not the operator's identity. - Homepage: no legal entity, licence or registration disclosure was identified in the captured content. ### What to Verify Next Any download offered here should be treated as untrusted until the publisher is confirmed through an independent route. Check whether the Lace Desktop software is distributed by a known publisher, using that publisher's official channels reached independently of this domain, such as a trusted app marketplace or an official documentation source typed in manually. Confirm the current status of the blacklist listing and the detections with the original reporting sources before any engagement. Confirm the official support and contact channels offline. Check the operator's corporate registration and any claimed regulatory status directly with the relevant public registry. Evidence: - Homepage: the page promotes a desktop application for Windows and macOS, so a file download is the central interaction. - Domain timeline: the domain is about two months old, so a long-standing publisher relationship cannot be assumed. - Reputation: the current blacklist listing makes independent publisher confirmation a precondition for any download. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high-risk. A confirmed external blacklist listing and corroborating detections dominate the assessment, and they are compounded by a very young domain and an unverified operator. Technical hygiene, such as a valid encrypted connection and stable page delivery, is real but cannot offset the adverse reputation. Only passive, read-only viewing is consistent with the evidence. Login, credential entry and financial interaction fall outside it. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site is served through Cloudflare's CDN and web application firewall, with a valid DV TLS certificate. Several edge addresses were observed, plus some candidate origin addresses, and the domain's DNS has few subdomains for its age. Bot protection was active during testing, and the page loaded stably across all test runs. This infrastructure is a mitigating factor only. It shows that the site is competently fronted, not that its operator or content is legitimate, and it cannot offset the external threat detections. ### Closing Assessment Do not download or run software from this site, do not connect a wallet, and do not enter credentials or payment details until the publisher is independently confirmed and the reputation listing is resolved. Anyone who has already interacted with the site should consider rotating exposed credentials and reviewing wallet approvals. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 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 - Several malware engines flagged this domain. (External reputation `rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH`) ### 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 lacepc.com. - The request stayed on lacepc.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 2027-08-27. (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 | 2606:4700:3035::6815:18e0 | | Name servers | ALEXIA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, COSMIN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 8 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 4 | | SSL issuer | WE1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-03 | | Domain age | 0.16 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-08-27 | | Archive first seen | Not available | | Archive snapshots | 0 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 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 lacepc.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. 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