Verdict
leadhustler.com 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 | Commercial website selling marketing leads, business data and telemarketing/managed services. Provides contact info, physical address and phone number. Primary calls-to-action are buy leads and request quotes; newsletter subscribe present. |
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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 | 12 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- 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.
LeadHustler is a commercial lead-generation and business-services website presenting lead and business-data products, telemarketing, live-transfer, recruiting, receptionist, web-design, and related managed-service offerings, with purchase and quote-request calls to action for prospective customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a coherent commercial operating model and the available page analysis found no direct brand-impersonation or phishing form indicators. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external blacklisting and multiple malicious detections, including detections attributed to Fortinet and Sophos. The combination creates a material contradiction between the site's ordinary B2B appearance and its external security reputation. No conflicting legal-entity names were observed, so the concern is reputation- and infrastructure-signal based rather than an established identity contradiction. Evidence:
- External reputation telemetry records 12 malicious detections from 17 effective detections and a confirmed blacklist involving Fortinet and Sophos.
- The homepage contains commercial lead, data, and telemarketing content, but no login form or hidden sensitive form was detected.
- Historical domain records show 108 archive snapshots spanning 2009–2026, with 18 years tracked; the historical material records domain presence but does not establish a verified operator identity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website's stated business is the sale of targeted leads, aged or verified business data, data-scrubbing services, live transfers, and managed calling or staffing services. Its pages include ordering, return-policy, contact, and service material, but the available evidence does not show a claimed license, registration number, or identified licensing authority; this is a regulatory-disclosure gap rather than independent proof of wrongdoing. The site's apparent association with a real-world brand or person is assessed as likely but remains independently unverified, and the available third-party broker dataset contains no matching record. Evidence:
- WHOIS records show registration on 2007-02-21 through Network Solutions, LLC, with an expiration date of 2028-12-14.
- The site presents two forms: a newsletter subscription and a contact/order form; no sensitive form was detected.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid to 2026-10-05.
- The website resolves through AS46606, identified as UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 – Unified Layer, US.
What to Verify Next
Any prospective commercial engagement should first confirm the operating entity, applicable data-protection responsibilities, lead-consent provenance, refund terms, and any licensing or registration requirements with the relevant jurisdictional authorities. Payment arrangements should be independently checked for contractual protections, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced business record before sensitive information or funds are exchanged. Given the external security findings, account credentials and payment details should not be submitted unless those checks produce satisfactory, independently corroborated results. Evidence:
- The site markets aged leads, verified business data, live transfers, and data scrubbing, making consent provenance and lawful data use material verification points.
- The site provides a return-policy reference and order-related pages, creating a basis for checking refund and fulfilment terms before purchase.
- The site uses two successful behavioural runs but also exposed two suspicious inline scripts and a high external-request proportion during testing.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the website has a long registration history, substantial commercial content, and an apparently identifiable business presentation, those qualities do not offset the confirmed external security contradictions that drive the assessment.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure, but it is not evidence of legitimacy. The observed edge address was 162.240.166.157 on AS46606, and the origin server was not observable in this analysis; this edge-only visibility limits independent hosting assessment and could facilitate rapid content changes.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate institutional posture is to limit activity to non-interactive observation while independent entity, regulatory, data-provenance, and payment-protection checks are completed; credentials, payment details, and other sensitive information should not be submitted in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 leadhustler.com.
- The request stayed on leadhustler.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Network Solutions, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-12-14. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-12-16. Clear
- It is hosted on UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 - Unified Layer, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.240.166.157 |
| Name servers | COLLINS.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, ELLIOTT.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 19.51 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-12-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-12-16 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about leadhustler.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.