--- title: "Is merlin-68m.pages.dev a Scam? Trust Score 5/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "merlin-68m.pages.dev" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is Pages a scam? merlin-68m.pages.dev trust score 5/100" trust_score: 5 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/merlin-68m.pages.dev assessed: 2026-10-29 --- # Is Pages a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment of merlin-68m.pages.dev: 5/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 5/100.** merlin-68m.pages.dev 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 2026-10-29 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%. ## 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 | 13 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 | 2.1 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2024 (10 snapshots) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the merlin-68m.pages.dev homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/merlin-68m.pages.dev/screenshots/first.png) _What merlin-68m.pages.dev served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-29. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2024. - 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. MerlinStarter is a single-page website published as a subdomain on a shared, free web-hosting platform. Its homepage carries the title "MerlinStarter" and a short block of text, with no named operator, product catalogue, or contact details visible to a visitor. Its apparent purpose is to present a starter or launch-style project, but the content captured is too thin to establish a concrete business model. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site is **blacklisted**. Multiple independent threat-intelligence engines currently flag it as malicious, including several tier-one security vendors, and an external blacklist hit is confirmed. This is the decisive finding and outweighs every neutral or favourable technical signal. No conflicting legal identities and no impersonation of a specific brand were observed, so the concern comes from reputation and detection history rather than from contradictory identity claims. The domain also closely resembles the name of its host platform, which is a common pattern for disposable or throwaway deployments. Behavioural testing did not catch wallet-connection prompts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, or password submission to external parties. That is a limited mitigating observation, because the page was only briefly exercised and flagged detections can relate to content served at other times. The site's page loads a heavy volume of third-party requests, with over half of its network activity directed to external hosts. That is atypical for a page this small and weakens confidence in what the page actually delivers. Evidence: - Homepage: more than a dozen security engines classify the site as malicious, and one more marks it suspicious. Three of them are leading vendors. - Homepage: behavioural runs recorded 74 external requests, none to unknown or non-allow-listed destinations, and no external POST submissions. - Homepage: the page content is only about two thousand characters, with no company name, product detail, or contact artifact. - Domain provenance: the domain is about 2.1 years old (registered around 2024), and the web archive holds 10 snapshots spanning 2024–2025 (2 years tracked). ### Regulatory Verification Notes The captured homepage identifies no operating company, no licence or registration number, and no legal or terms pages, so there is nothing on the site against which to check regulatory status. No third-party broker or regulator record matches the site. The absence of a match is not a regulatory finding either way. The site's identity could not be independently connected to a real-world person or organisation. The site's own content gives no basis for treating it as a regulated or accountable entity. A valid certificate and recognised hosting are routine properties of the platform and do not substitute for accountability. Evidence: - Homepage: no operator name, licence reference, or registration number is shown. - Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, US). - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (domain-validated only), valid to 2027-01-14. ### What to Verify Next Any dealings should be preceded by independent confirmation that a real organisation stands behind this project, using channels found outside the site itself. This includes searching the relevant company and financial-services registries for the project's claimed operator. The project's official domain should also be confirmed through an independent, known-good source, since this address sits on a shared hosting subdomain and could be a copy or a staging deployment. Official support channels should be confirmed the same way. The current detections should be rechecked against live reputation sources before any decision, because the flagged state may change if the owner remediates. Evidence: - Homepage: no operator or contact details are given to cross-check, so verification must start from an external source. - Hosting platform: the site runs on a shared platform subdomain rather than a standalone, independently registered domain. - Reputation: the active detections are the principal open item to recheck. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high-risk. Confirmed blacklist-level detections from multiple reputable security sources dominate the assessment, and nothing else in the evidence offsets them. Identity is unverified, and the site cannot be treated as a trustworthy counterparty. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site is delivered through Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses are edge servers, with the origin not visible. This is protective infrastructure and a mitigating factor only. It supports availability and transport security, but it also prevents independent verification of the true hosting and can mask rapid content changes. It cannot offset the active threat detections. ### Closing Assessment The site should not be used for login, credential entry, wallet interaction, or any financial transaction. Any visit should be limited to read-only viewing from an isolated, non-sensitive environment, and nothing should be downloaded from it. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership. ### 01 Governance - A threat feed lists this domain as malicious, and that caps the score whatever the other checks found. (Governance `rule:GOV_CRITICAL_BLACKLIST`) ### 02 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`) ### 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 made many background requests to other domains while it was open. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_XHR_HEAVY`) ### 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 merlin-68m.pages.dev. - The request stayed on merlin-68m.pages.dev. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2024-09-08. (Clear) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Not available | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:310c::ac42:2f0b | | Name servers | Not available | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | WE1 | | SSL expiry | 2027-01-14 | | Domain age | 2.14 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | Not available | | Archive first seen | 2024-09-08 | | Archive snapshots | 10 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 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 merlin-68m.pages.dev 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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