Verdict
motoraddicts.ca appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Motor Addicts is an automotive community and media site (articles, shorts, YouTube) that also operates a merchandise shop and an online business directory. The site runs a consent management platform and multiple advertising vendors; content and commerce appear legitimate and consistent with branding. |
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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.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 6.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Motor Addicts is an automotive community and media website focused on supercars, exotic cars, motorcycles, custom builds, and related editorial content. It presents articles, short-form and YouTube content, a merchandise shop, and a business directory, with apparent monetization through merchandise sales, directory listings, advertising, and partner integrations.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site’s automotive branding, editorial content, merchandise activity, directory model, and linked social presence are internally consistent, while the completed external checks found no malicious detections, phishing indication, brand-impersonation signal, or abuse reports. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, established website rather than a scam or impersonation operation, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage presents the “Motor Addicts” automotive community, editorial, directory, and merchandise model without detected phishing, hidden-form, or brand-impersonation indicators.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2020-03-03T21:58:03Z, an age of 6.47 years, expiry on 2027-03-03T21:58:03Z, and registration through eNom Canada Corp.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website appears to operate primarily as a media, community, directory, and e-commerce business rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial service. Its contact, privacy, and terms pages are available, but the supplied analysis does not identify a claimed license, licensing authority, or registration number; this is a disclosure point for ordinary merchant verification, not evidence of fraud. The registration record names CyberVision Media Inc., but that record does not independently prove that the named entity is the current site operator. The completed reputation signals are clean, and the site uses valid domain-validated transport encryption.
- The site’s legal-navigation links include Contact Us, Privacy Policy, and Terms pages; no license claim or license number is identified in the reviewed content.
- The site is served through AS15169, Google LLC, US; the registration record identifies CyberVision Media Inc. as the recorded owner.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-17T18:24:21+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm that the merchant identity associated with the shop is consistent with the entity presented through the site’s legal and contact materials. The shop’s returns, refunds, fulfilment terms, and available payment protections should be reviewed before a purchase, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route where the transaction is material.
- The shop and terms pages are the relevant locations for confirming product fulfilment, returns, refunds, and transaction conditions.
- The contact page is the relevant location for validating the published business-contact route against independently obtained contact information.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its stated media, community, directory, and commerce functions. That conclusion reflects the site and technical risk evidence; it does not constitute independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed address belongs to an edge server rather than an identified origin; this reduces direct exposure of the underlying service but is a mitigating security measure, not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the assessed posture, subject to standard independent checks of merchant identity, transaction protections, and applicable site terms before material credential or payment activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 motoraddicts.ca.
- The request stayed on motoraddicts.ca. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under eNom Canada Corp.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by siteground.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-10-16. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | eNom Canada Corp. |
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| Hosting | GOOGLE - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.212.22.137 |
| Name servers | ns1.siteground.net, ns2.siteground.net |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-17 |
| Domain age | 6.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-10-16 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about motoraddicts.ca 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.