---
title: "Is phillipsorthopedic.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "phillipsorthopedic.com"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is phillipsorthopedic.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
trust_score: 0
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/phillipsorthopedic.com
assessed: 2026-08-21
---

# Is phillipsorthopedic.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** phillipsorthopedic.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 | Local orthopedic practice site announcing closure, describing how patients can obtain medical records, with phone, fax, email and mailing address and references to a patient portal. |

## 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 | 6 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 | 8.3 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018 (Public history exists) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the phillipsorthopedic.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/phillipsorthopedic.com/screenshots/first.png)

_What phillipsorthopedic.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: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Security Alert

Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.

This website presents itself as the informational site of Phillips Orthopedics Associates, a local orthopedic medical practice. Its homepage provides practice information, a closure notice, patient-records instructions, telephone and mailing contact details, and references to a patient portal rather than offering an online commercial or financial service.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site’s visible content is consistent with a healthcare practice and contains no page-level indicators of brand impersonation, deceptive forms, wallet activity, or commercial fraud. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections and blacklist records associated with the domain; the supplied assessment also identifies the site as unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The available evidence therefore supports a clear risk of harmful or compromised use despite the ordinary appearance of the homepage. No conflicting legal-entity names were identified across the supplied site content.


Evidence:
- The homepage identifies Phillips Orthopedics Associates and announces that the practice closed on May 31, 2023, with instructions for obtaining medical records.
- External reputation checks recorded 6 malicious and 1 suspicious detections, including a Tier-1 threat detection, and confirmed blacklist status from multiple sources.
- Domain registration telemetry: registered 2018-05-11T03:01:04Z; age 8.28 years; expiration 2027-05-11T03:01:04Z.
- Archive telemetry records 56 snapshots spanning 2018–2025, with 8 years tracked.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The site describes a healthcare practice and patient-records process but does not present a licensing authority, license number, or independently verifiable corporate identity in the supplied content. That is a regulatory and disclosure verification gap, not by itself evidence of fraud; in this case, it must be considered alongside the confirmed external threat findings. Identity verification remains unconfirmed, and the available material does not establish that the current site operator is the real-world medical practice.


Evidence:
- The homepage provides a practice name, telephone number, patient-portal reference, records-release process, and closure date, but no license or registration number is shown.
- Hosting telemetry: AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS telemetry: certificate issuer WE1; domain validation (DV); valid to 2026-10-13T16:05:03+00:00.
- No match was returned in the supplied broker-reputation context.

### What to Verify Next

Any continued need for medical records should be handled through an independently confirmed route, such as the patient’s health insurer, a known telephone number from prior clinical documentation, or the successor provider identified through an offline source. The practice’s closure status and records custodian should be confirmed before using the patient portal or submitting personal health information. Licensing and the current operator should also be checked against the relevant state healthcare registry rather than relying solely on the website.


Evidence:
- The homepage directs patients seeking another physician to their health insurer.
- The homepage states that records may be requested using a signed authorization form or accessed through the patient portal.
- The supplied identity-verification status is unverified, so the website alone does not independently establish the operator’s identity.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **critical risk for sensitive interaction**. The site’s healthcare presentation is not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external threat and blacklist signals, and the real-world operator has not been independently verified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and all four observed addresses are CDN edge addresses rather than identified origin infrastructure. This reduces direct exposure of the origin and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not validate the site’s identity or offset the external reputation risk. The observed edge network is AS13335.


### Closing Assessment

The site should be limited to non-sensitive informational review until the practice, records custodian, and contact channels are confirmed independently; credentials, personal health information, and other sensitive submissions should not be provided through it.


_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, external reputation.

### 01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN`)
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE`)

### 02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor. (Analysis engine `signal:direct_threat`)
- 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 | 25% |

- 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 phillipsorthopedic.com.

- The request stayed on phillipsorthopedic.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-11. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-13. (Clear)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3037::6815:703 |
| Name servers | SALVADOR.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, ULLIS.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-13 |
| Domain age | 8.28 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-11 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-13 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about phillipsorthopedic.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.

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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/phillipsorthopedic.com) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/phillipsorthopedic.com · assessed 2026-08-21.*