---
title: "Is macmillan.org.uk Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "macmillan.org.uk"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is macmillan.org.uk Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/macmillan.org.uk
assessed: 2026-08-12
---

# Is macmillan.org.uk legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** macmillan.org.uk appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-12 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Official Macmillan Cancer Support site content: information and support for people affected by cancer, donation and fundraising options, volunteer and professional resources, contact and helpline details, and cookie/privacy information. |

## 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 29 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1999 (4831 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36) | Noted |

## The page as captured


No screenshot is retained for this report.

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

Macmillan Cancer Support is a charitable information and support website for people affected by cancer, presenting cancer guidance, helpline and community services, donation and fundraising options, volunteering opportunities, professional resources, retail activity, and related charitable programmes.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation, or blacklist indicators. The homepage content is coherent with the stated charitable purpose, and the site’s observed donation, contact, and account-related functionality showed no hidden sensitive forms, external password forms, wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking. Its long registration continuity, substantial archive presence, clean external reputation, and established traffic footprint provide convergent support for an apparently legitimate and established website, while not independently proving the real-world operator identity.


Evidence:
- Domain registration: created 1997-05-20T05:34:58Z; age 29.25 years; registrar Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN.
- Web archive: 4,831 snapshots spanning 1999–2026, covering 28 years, with the latest snapshot dated 2026-08-06T01:40:36Z.
- Homepage and observed behavior: no red flags, hidden forms, external password forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking detected.
- External reputation checks: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist or phishing result.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The available pages present Macmillan Cancer Support as a charitable organisation and provide substantive information about cancer support, donations, fundraising, volunteering, professional resources, and contact services. Privacy and cookie information are also present. No licensing authority or license number is identified in the supplied content; for this charitable business model, that is a regulatory-transparency item requiring confirmation rather than evidence of a scam. The site is consistent with an established entity, but the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified. Transport and hosting signals are technically sound and support infrastructure integrity, although they do not establish legal ownership.


Evidence:
- Homepage: describes the organisation as a UK cancer-care charity and provides content for patients, supporters, volunteers, and healthcare professionals.
- Hosting: served from AS8075, MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US.
- TLS: certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, validation level OV, valid to 2026-10-16T23:59:59+00:00.
- Contact and privacy/cookie pages: contact and support routes, together with privacy and cookie disclosures, are present.

### What to Verify Next

Before credential or payment interactions, an independent official source should be used to confirm the organisation’s identity and the destination of any donation or purchase transaction. The applicable charitable registration status should be checked through the relevant UK registry, and the donation flow should be reviewed for the named recipient, refund terms, and available payment protections. Published contact routes should be cross-checked through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on page content.


Evidence:
- Homepage: use the displayed organisation name and donation pathways as the basis for an independent registry and payment-recipient check.
- Contact page: independently cross-check the published helpline and general contact routes.
- Donation and shop pathways: review recipient details, refund conditions, and payment-protection arrangements before completing a transaction.
- Privacy and cookie pages: review the stated handling of personal information before account registration or donation submission.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, with no observed contradiction or abuse pattern. The conclusion supports ordinary website use, subject to the stated limitation that the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were identified as edge servers rather than origin candidates. Microsoft Corporation infrastructure and AS8075 were observed among the serving infrastructure; this protective architecture reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating security signal, not proof of legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

Prospective users should complete ordinary independent identity, return or refund-policy, and payment-protection checks before submitting credentials or making payments.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-12 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

## 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 macmillan.org.uk.

- The request stayed on macmillan.org.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by com., across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-20. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-01-25. (Clear)
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN |
| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 20.49.159.178 |
| Name servers | dns1.stabletransit.com., dns2.stabletransit.com. |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-16 |
| Domain age | 29.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-20 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-01-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 4831 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about macmillan.org.uk 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/macmillan.org.uk) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/macmillan.org.uk · assessed 2026-08-12.*