---
title: "Is martinconstructionmnwi.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "martinconstructionmnwi.com"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is martinconstructionmnwi.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
trust_score: 0
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/martinconstructionmnwi.com
assessed: 2026-08-21
---

# Is martinconstructionmnwi.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** martinconstructionmnwi.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 2026-08-21 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Website for Martin Construction & Contracting, Inc offering custom home builds, additions, and remodeling services. Includes licensing numbers (MN, WI), phone number, and physical address in Stillwater, MN. Focused on local residential construction services. |

## 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 | 11 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 17 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011 (Public history exists) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the martinconstructionmnwi.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/martinconstructionmnwi.com/screenshots/first.png)

_What martinconstructionmnwi.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-21. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- 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.

The website presents Martin Construction & Contracting, Inc. as a local residential construction business offering custom home builds, additions, remodeling, kitchen and bathroom renovations, outdoor living projects, and custom room design, with revenue apparently generated through client construction contracts and related services.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site’s construction-business presentation is internally coherent, and no separate legal-entity conflict, brand impersonation, or phishing form was identified in the supplied page evidence. However, this positive page-level appearance is outweighed by confirmed external security contradictions: the domain is blacklisted by listed external sources, 11 security detections classified it as malicious, and Fortinet and Sophos were among the vendors identifying a threat. The resulting posture is explicitly unsuitable for login, credential submission, or financial interaction, regardless of the site’s ordinary local-business content. Identity verification also remains unverified, so the on-page business identity should not be treated as independently proven.


Evidence:
- The homepage describes Martin Construction & Contracting, Inc. as a custom home builder and remodeling contractor and contains no detected login form, hidden form, wallet interaction, or suspicious browser behavior.
- External security telemetry recorded 11 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and Tier-1 threat detections from Fortinet and Sophos; blacklist status was confirmed by two listed external sources.
- The domain was registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC on 2009-11-18 and has an observed registration age of 16.76 years.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The homepage displays Minnesota license number BC739263, Wisconsin license number 120600086, and a statement that the contractor is licensed and insured. These are meaningful disclosure claims, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the numbers, their current status, or the legal entity operating the domain. The site’s apparent business model is conventional residential contracting rather than a financial service, and no separate third-party broker match was identified; those points do not resolve the external security findings or establish regulatory standing. The domain registration uses GoDaddy.com, LLC, while the transport certificate is a domain-validated certificate issued by WE1, which supports technical continuity but does not validate licensing or identity.


Evidence:
- The homepage states that the business is licensed and insured and displays MN License #BC739263 and WI License #120600086.
- The domain registration lists GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar, with creation date 2009-11-18T17:58:41Z and expiration date 2026-11-18T17:58:41Z.
- The site is served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by WE1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-11-13T22:32:11+00:00.

### What to Verify Next

Before any contract, deposit, document exchange, or account-related interaction, the claimed Minnesota and Wisconsin licenses should be checked directly with the relevant state licensing registries, including confirmation that the licensed name matches the contracting party. The published business address and telephone number should be corroborated through an independently obtained source rather than relying solely on the website. Any payment request, invoice, or document-transfer instruction should be validated through an offline channel and handled using payment protections appropriate for construction services. Given the confirmed external security findings, sensitive interaction should remain suspended unless the domain’s security status is independently resolved.


Evidence:
- The homepage supplies state license identifiers that can be checked against the relevant Minnesota and Wisconsin registries.
- The homepage supplies a physical address in Stillwater, Minnesota and a telephone number for independent business verification.
- The site offers no online forms and no detected sensitive-input workflow, so a request for credentials, payment details, or documents through a separate channel would require additional validation.

### Summary Verdict

The website has a credible local-contractor presentation but carries a critical trust posture because confirmed external malicious and blacklist detections create a decisive security contradiction. Its apparent business identity is not independently verified, and the available evidence does not support treating the domain as suitable for sensitive interaction.


### Infrastructure Integrity

Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is a mitigating control, with all observed addresses resolving to Cloudflare edge infrastructure on AS13335; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment but cannot offset the external reputation risk or independently establish site legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

The appropriate enterprise disposition is read-only observation pending independent confirmation of the business identity, state licensing, and resolution of the domain’s external security detections; no credentials, payments, or sensitive documents should be exchanged through the site meanwhile.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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
- 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`)
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN`)

### 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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 martinconstructionmnwi.com.

- The request stayed on martinconstructionmnwi.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-18. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-08. (Clear)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3036::ac43:8e7c |
| Name servers | ANIRBAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, WANDA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 16.76 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about martinconstructionmnwi.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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/martinconstructionmnwi.com) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/martinconstructionmnwi.com · assessed 2026-08-21.*