--- title: "Is metchain.live a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "metchain.live" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is metchain.live a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/metchain.live assessed: 2026-10-27 --- # Is metchain.live a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** metchain.live 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 2026-10-27 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 | 10 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Listed as unsafe (Google) | Risk | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 3 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (1 snapshot) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the metchain.live homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/metchain.live/screenshots/first.png) _What metchain.live served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-27. 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 2026. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet, Google, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. metchain.live is a recently registered website that, when visited by the analysis, returned a security interstitial titled as a suspected-phishing warning instead of ordinary site content. The only page content captured was a short challenge notice, so the site's products, branding and business model could not be observed. What it presents to a visitor is a blocked, warning-labelled entry point, and its apparent purpose cannot be established from the page itself. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk This is a confirmed, multi-source contradiction case, not a speculative one. The site is **blacklisted** by several independent reputation sources. A major browser-safety service classifies it under social engineering, the category used for phishing and deceptive-page threats. A broad panel of security engines, including several top-tier vendors, also flags it as malicious. Together these hits are the decisive element of this assessment. The behavioral profile adds context. Interaction caused very heavy page restructuring, with over a thousand DOM mutations. The page logged a high number of script errors, and almost all of its observed network activity went to third-party destinations. Those destinations were all on a known-good list. No wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard tampering, hidden forms or external password submission was observed. The absence of those techniques does not offset the blacklisting. No conflicting legal identities or brand-impersonation target could be established, because the page content was not retrievable. The risk therefore rests on the reputation hits and the very young age of the domain. The latter fits the pattern of short-lived infrastructure that has not yet built any track record. Evidence: - Homepage: the page returned an access-denied challenge titled as a suspected-phishing warning, with only a short block of text captured. - Domain registration: registered 2026-08-02 (~0.24 years old, about three months). - Web-archive depth: 1 archive snapshot, captured 2026-08-03 (1 year tracked), so there is no meaningful history. - Reputation checks: 10 security engines rated the site malicious and 2 suspicious, and a major browser-safety service independently flagged it for social engineering. ### Regulatory Verification Notes No legal, terms, privacy or about page could be assessed. The only content captured was the warning interstitial, so no company name, license or registration number can be evaluated. Registration details do not identify an operator, which amounts to ownership opacity. That is not an identity contradiction, because no competing legal entities were found. No regulated-entity status is established, and no third-party broker-reputation record matched the site. The cautionary posture comes from the reputation hits, not from this transparency gap. Evidence: - Registrar: the domain is registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, expiring 2027-08-02, with incomplete registrant data. - Transport encryption: the TLS certificate is DV-level, issued by WE1 and valid to 2026-12-29. This proves only encryption, not operator identity or legitimacy. - Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). ### What to Verify Next Verification should focus on whether the listings have been cleared and whether any real-world operator exists. Before any engagement, re-check the site's status with the browser-safety service and the major reputation sources, since a cleared listing is the minimum condition for reconsidering it. Any claim by a counterparty that this domain is their official site should be confirmed through an independent, offline route, such as a known phone number or a previously established official channel. Licensing or registration claims should be confirmed directly with the relevant registry, but only if the site later publishes such claims. The page content should be re-captured manually in an isolated environment, because the automated visit never reached the underlying site. Evidence: - Homepage: the warning interstitial prevented any assessment of the site's real content, so no claim exists yet to verify. - Reputation sources: the blacklist status was active at the time of analysis and should be re-checked before any decision. - Domain provenance: the domain's short lifespan means there is no prior record to rely on. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high risk. Active blacklisting by multiple independent sources is decisive and outweighs the technically valid encryption and the site's other neutral technical traits. The domain's youth and its absence of independent track record reinforce that conclusion. The available evidence supports no presumption of legitimacy. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all four observed addresses are CDN edge servers. The origin server was not observable. The infrastructure is mainstream and low-risk, and it raised no hosting-level concerns. It is a mitigating factor only, because it is shared by legitimate and malicious sites alike. It cannot offset the reputation findings, and it prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted. ### Closing Assessment Avoid logging in, entering credentials, connecting a crypto wallet, or making any payment or financial commitment on this domain. Treat any link, message or download that points to it as hostile until the listings are demonstrably cleared. Any visit should be read-only and made only from an isolated environment. Organizations that encounter the domain in communications should report it through their security channels. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership. ### 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 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`) ### 04 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 structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE`) ### 05 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 metchain.live. - The request stayed on metchain.live. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-08-02. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-03. (Clear) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:3031::6815:4526 | | Name servers | merlin.ns.cloudflare.com, carioca.ns.cloudflare.com | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | WE1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-29 | | Domain age | 0.24 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-08-02 | | Archive first seen | 2026-08-03 | | Archive snapshots | 1 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 1 match | ## 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 metchain.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. 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Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/metchain.live · assessed 2026-10-27.*