Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
megaethchain.live shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | A token claim portal for $METH, presented as a MegaEth DAO treasury distribution. Visitors are asked to connect a wallet to claim, but the page does not provide a token contract, audit, eligibility rules, treasury proof or verifiable contact details to support its claims. |
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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.
| Malware engines | 15 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 61 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2026.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is a single-page token claim portal titled "MegaEth — Claim $METH." It presents a "Treasury Distribution" of a new token, $METH, which it says comes from a MegaEth DAO treasury as part of an "L1 Expansion." Its one call to action is a "Connect Wallet" button that lets visitors claim a share. It also advertises governance rights and ecosystem access for holders. Its apparent purpose is a wallet-connected airdrop or claim funnel for a crypto token.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present. Multiple independent threat-intelligence sources currently list this domain as malicious, including several tier-one security vendors, and this is a confirmed blacklist condition, not a soft reputational signal. The conduct is decisive for the posture. Nothing on the page offsets it, and the page's own claims are not backed by evidence. It says it is distributing treasury funds to "all eligible members" and calls itself the "official MegaEth $METH claim portal." Yet it gives no token contract address, no audit, no eligibility criteria, no proof of treasury backing, and no verifiable legal entity or contact route. A line reading "Non-custodial connection · On-chain verified" and a security notice telling users to "verify the URL" are unsupported assurances, and the notice cannot authenticate the page that displays it. Dressing a wallet-connection prompt in official-project language is a recognised pattern for wallet-drainer and fake-airdrop operations. The page's own analysis found no confirmed brand-impersonation match and no hidden or credential-harvesting forms. That absence does not offset the threat listings or the unsupported claim-to-wallet flow. The site's age adds to the concern: the domain and its only archive capture both date from the last few weeks, so there is no history to counter these findings. Confirmed phishing and identity-contradiction flags are not set, but the combination of blacklist hits and an unverifiable wallet-claim mechanic places this site in an active high-risk category.
- Homepage: the page offers only a "Connect Wallet" claim flow for $METH, with no contract address, audit, eligibility rules or treasury proof. It also claims "Treasury Backed" and "On-chain verified" status without support.
- Homepage: the "Security First" notice declares the page "official" but links to no independent confirmation. The only token named is $METH.
- Domain registered 2026 (~16 days old), with 1 archive snapshot spanning 2026 (1 year tracked), so there is no meaningful prior history.
- Threat-intelligence listings across several engines flag the domain as malicious, and a confirmed blacklist condition is active.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site discloses no operating company, jurisdiction, licence, registration number, terms of use, privacy policy or contact route. The footer's "© 2026 MegaEth. All rights reserved." names a brand, not a legal entity, and nothing connects the site to the real MegaEth project. No third-party broker or regulatory-database record matches this site, so no reputational or licensing signal from that quarter exists either way. Because the site distributes a token and asks for a wallet connection, the absence of any accountable party leaves visitors with no recourse and no way to confirm the offer is real. This is a verification gap that compounds the confirmed threat listings, and it is not a standalone finding.
- Homepage: no legal entity, address, licence number or regulator reference appears anywhere on the page, and no legal pages are linked.
- Homepage footer: only a brand name and copyright line are given, with no corporate registration.
- Served from AS16509 (Amazon, US); TLS certificate issued by YR2 (DV), valid to 2027-01-01. A domain-validated certificate confirms only control of the domain, not the operator's identity.
What to Verify Next
Before any wallet connection, the claim must be checked through channels that do not rely on this site. The first step is to look for any $METH distribution announced by the genuine MegaEth project, using its officially published website and verified social accounts reached through an independent route, not through links or messages that reference this page. A second step is to confirm independently that a $METH token exists, with a published contract address and an audit, and that its supply and treasury allocation match what the page states. A third step is to ask the project's official support whether this domain is operated by them. If it is not, report it to the project and to the hosting provider's abuse channel. If any licensing claim is later made, it should be confirmed with the relevant registry.
- Homepage: the page's only authenticity assurance is its own "Security First" notice, which has no independent corroboration.
- Homepage: no token contract address is shown, so on-chain verification of $METH cannot be done from the page.
- Domain registered 2026 (~16 days old), which is inconsistent with a long-running project distributing a treasury.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and clearly cautionary. Confirmed third-party threat listings, a very young domain, and a high-stakes wallet-claim mechanic with no supporting evidence converge, and nothing in the evidence offsets them. The site's legitimacy is unverified, and the evidence points to a high-risk wallet-claim portal.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through a mainstream CDN/WAF layer on US cloud infrastructure, with only edge addresses observable, and no origin server is visible. A valid, mainstream TLS certificate is in place. These are ordinary protective measures that mitigate exposure but do not indicate legitimacy, and they cannot offset the threat listings. A substantial number of abuse reports are attached to the shared provider IP. Those reports concern a shared CDN address used by many tenants and are discounted, so they are not attributed to this site. The edge-only view limits independent hosting verification, and content on such a site can be swapped quickly.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for any interaction: no wallet connection, no signing of transactions, no credential entry and no financial activity, and any visit should be limited to passive viewing from an isolated environment. Anyone who has already connected a wallet here should revoke token approvals, move assets to a fresh wallet, and report the domain to the official project and the hosting provider.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 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, page content, history in the web archive.
01 External reputation
- 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
02 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D
03 Page content
- The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG - The review of the page content rated it moderate risk.Page content
rule:PAGE_RISK_MED
04 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new.History in the web archive
rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 61 reports on hosting IP 64.29.17.1 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| 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 megaethchain.live.
- The request stayed on megaethchain.live. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-10-02. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 64.29.17.1 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-01 |
| Domain age | 0.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2026-10-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 61 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about megaethchain.live 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.