Verdict
robertjunk.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Personal website for Robert Junk, a software engineer focused on front-end development. Contains navigation (Home, Projects, About, FAQ), skills list, project counts, and a link to a fantasy football league. Appears informational/portfolio in nature with no transactional or financial prompts. |
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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 | 17 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 79 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 1.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2024Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR3 | Noted |
The page as captured
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.
robertjunk.com is a personal software-engineering portfolio presenting Robert Junk’s front-end development experience, projects, technical skills, certifications, and a fantasy-football project; its apparent purpose is informational self-presentation rather than commerce or financial activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictions were observed. Although the site presents as a personal portfolio with no visible transactional or financial flow, external security telemetry produced multiple malicious detections, a further suspicious detection, and a confirmed blacklist result. This is a material security warning that outweighs the benign appearance of the homepage. Separately, abuse reports associated with the observed address were attributed to shared provider infrastructure, marked as whitelisted, and assigned zero confidence; that signal is therefore not treated as site-specific evidence. The available evidence does not establish brand impersonation, phishing, or a conflicting legal identity, but the confirmed blacklist and malicious detections support a high-risk posture for sensitive interaction.
- The homepage is classified as a personal or portfolio page and contains no sensitive form, login form, wallet activity, or deceptive behavior indicators.
- External security telemetry recorded 17 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with threat detections from Fortinet, Kaspersky, and Sophos.
- The site was marked by external blacklist telemetry; a separate Google Safe Browsing result was not malicious.
- Domain registration: 2024-12-05; age 1.71 years; registrar: Squarespace Domains LLC.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as an individual portfolio rather than a financial, brokerage, or other regulated service, so no licensing claim or regulated-service disclosure is visible in the supplied pages. The identity presented on the homepage is not independently verified by the available evidence; the name shown on the site should therefore be treated as a site claim rather than proof of the real-world operator. The absence of a broker or regulated-entity match is contextual only and does not resolve the security contradiction identified above.
- The homepage identifies Robert Junk as a software engineer and presents skills, projects, education, experience, and certification information.
- The site’s navigation includes Home, Projects, About, FAQ, and Games pages, with no supplied evidence of terms for financial services, regulatory status, or licensing.
- The site is served on AS54113, FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US.
- TLS uses issuer WR3 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-11-11T09:41:09+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an organization should obtain an independent confirmation that the domain and its current content are intentionally operated by the person named on the site, using a contact route established outside the website. Security teams should also compare the observed domain, hosting configuration, and current page content against the organization’s own endpoint and threat-detection records, and require documented clearance of the blacklist detections before permitting credential use or business engagement. Any claimed professional affiliation or certification should be checked directly with the relevant issuing body.
- The homepage contains a personal biography and project counters but does not provide supplied evidence of independent identity verification.
- The site presents a Google sign-in reference in its visible page text, while the behavioral assessment found no login form or external password form.
- The historical record contains 3 snapshots, first seen 2024-12-31T18:09:25Z and last seen 2026-02-18T16:50:00Z, with 3 years tracked.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The site’s benign portfolio presentation is contradicted by confirmed external security detections and blacklist status, while the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified. Sensitive interaction is not supportable on the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Fastly’s CDN/WAF infrastructure and resolves to an observed CDN edge address on AS54113; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This provides a meaningful exposure-mitigation layer, but it cannot compensate for the external reputation findings or independently establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate institutional response is to restrict the site to passive review until the security detections, domain operation, and operator identity have been independently resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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
- 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 - The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 79 reports on hosting IP 199.36.158.100 (Google LLC, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| 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 robertjunk.com.
- The request stayed on robertjunk.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Squarespace Domains LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by googledomains.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-12-05. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2024-12-31. Clear
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Squarespace Domains LLC |
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| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 199.36.158.100 |
| Name servers | NS-CLOUD-E1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM, NS-CLOUD-E2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM, NS-CLOUD-E3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM, NS-CLOUD-E4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM |
| SSL issuer | WR3 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-11 |
| Domain age | 1.71 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-12-05 |
| Archive first seen | 2024-12-31 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 17 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 79 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about robertjunk.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.