--- title: "Is metahuay.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "metahuay.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is metahuay.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/metahuay.com assessed: 2026-08-21 --- # Is metahuay.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** metahuay.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 | Localized Chinese landing page for Mahjong Soul (雀魂) detailing game features, rules, character system, downloads for PC/mobile/Steam, gacha probabilities, changelog, and support contact. Primary purpose is user acquisition and driving downloads/in-app monetization. | ## 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 | 16 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 | 6 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Watch | | Web archive | Archived since 2021 (Public history exists) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the metahuay.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/metahuay.com/screenshots/first.png) _What metahuay.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: less than 1 year (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2021. - 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. A localized Chinese landing page for a digital entertainment title, the site presents Mahjong Soul as a free-to-download online riichi-mahjong game with character collection, competitive play, PC/mobile/Steam access, and monetization through in-app purchases and gacha-style draws. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk **Confirmed external threat indicators create a critical interaction risk despite the page’s professional gaming presentation and the absence of an observed login form, hidden form, wallet connection, or explicit brand-impersonation marker.** The site promotes downloads and account registration, while observed network activity included non-whitelisted external requests and posts; this creates additional uncertainty around the download and registration pathways. The domain is blacklisted by external sources, with multiple malicious detections including coverage from Fortinet and Sophos. The historical record also conflicts with the current registration record: archival captures predate the recorded 2026 creation date, so domain provenance cannot be treated as straightforward. No conflicting legal-entity names were observed, but the external threat evidence is sufficient to require a clearly defensive posture. Evidence: - The homepage presents Mahjong Soul gameplay, character acquisition, gacha probabilities, registration, and PC/mobile/Steam download routes. - External reputation telemetry records 16 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with Fortinet and Sophos among the flagged vendors; blacklist status is true. - The observed page generated 2 external XHR requests and 2 external POST requests classified as non-whitelisted, with a maximum external activity proportion of 72.6%. - Archive records show 11 snapshots spanning 2021–2025, covering 5 years, while the registration record states creation in 2026. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The site’s on-page identity is presented through the title “雀魂集团|中国官网,” but the available evidence does not independently verify the operator behind that claim. The page describes a commercial entertainment model involving downloads, in-app purchases, character draws, and potentially premium content; no licensing authority or registration number is claimed in the available business information. This is a disclosure and operator-verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of wrongdoing. The site’s valid transport encryption and identified hosting are technical properties only and do not establish ownership, publisher authorization, or regulatory standing. Evidence: - The recorded registrar is Metaregistrar BV; the domain creation date is 2026-02-11T19:15:53Z and the recorded age is 0.52 years. - The site is hosted on AS9294, GNETINC-AS-AP - GNET INC., US. - The transport certificate is issued by YE2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-11-05T19:03:48+00:00. - The available business information records no claimed license authority or license number. ### What to Verify Next Before any interaction beyond passive viewing, the purported game publisher and the legitimacy of each download should be confirmed through independently established official app-store or platform listings, not solely through links supplied by this site. Any account or payment activity should wait until the publisher identity, software provenance, privacy terms, refund arrangements, and applicable consumer protections are confirmed through independent channels. Downloaded software should be obtained from a verified platform source and subjected to enterprise malware scanning and code-signature checks where available. Evidence: - The site’s stated purpose is user acquisition and download distribution rather than a purely informational game guide. - The observed page contains no sensitive form, but it does direct visitors toward registration and client downloads. - The page includes external destinations and a support channel, requiring independent confirmation that those destinations belong to the authorized publisher. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is **critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction**. The site’s coherent gaming content does not offset the confirmed external threat detections, unresolved provenance conflict, and lack of independently verified operator identity. Passive reference may be possible, but the evidence does not support trust for credentials, account access, downloads, or financial activity. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves to one likely origin IP without a detected CDN or edge-IP layer. Hosting is provided through GNETINC-AS-AP, and the direct origin posture offers limited infrastructure separation; the presence of basic transport encryption should be regarded only as a narrow protective measure, not as evidence of legitimacy. ### Closing Assessment The appropriate course is to avoid login, credential submission, downloads, and financial transactions through the site, and to use only independently verified official channels until the publisher and software provenance have been established. _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, 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 sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS`) - 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 | 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 metahuay.com. - The request stayed on metahuay.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under Metaregistrar BV. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by xundns.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-02-11. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-17. (Clear) - It is hosted on GNETINC-AS-AP, from a server in SC. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Metaregistrar BV | | Hosting | GNETINC-AS-AP - GNET INC., US | | Country | SC | | Server IP | 156.247.116.198 | | Name servers | N1.XUNDNS.COM, N2.XUNDNS.COM | | SSL issuer | YE2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-11-05 | | Domain age | 0.52 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-02-11 | | Archive first seen | 2021-12-17 | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 16 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about metahuay.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. 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