Is tron-risk-check.vercel.app a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

Security Alert

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

This website is a single-page service presented as "Tron Risk Check", which advertises itself as the "#1 TRON AML Verification" tool offering TRC20 wallet risk scoring and sanctions screening. It is served from a subdomain of a shared application-hosting platform rather than from a standalone registered domain. It appears intended to attract cryptocurrency users who want to check the compliance exposure of TRON wallet addresses, a purpose that makes its visitors' wallet data and trust especially valuable.

Scam/Impersonation Risk

Contradictory signals are present and decisive. Several independent threat-intelligence engines currently flag the site as malicious, including two widely used enterprise security vendors, and the aggregate detection level is strong enough to count as a confirmed blacklist listing. A separate historical record also marks the site as previously associated with phishing. The site presents itself as a compliance and sanctions-screening authority, and it adds an unverifiable superlative ("#1") to its title. That is a common lure for fraudulent crypto-utility pages, because users who believe a tool can vouch for a wallet are likely to submit wallet addresses or follow its instructions. Behavioral testing found no wallet-drainer routines, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, cloaking, or credential posts to outside parties. However, the page sent a high share of its traffic to external destinations, including several POST requests to destinations outside the expected set, and the console logged repeated errors. The destinations of that outbound data could not be established. Abuse reports tied to the shared platform address are numerous, but they are discounted. They apply to infrastructure used by many unrelated tenants and cannot be attributed to this site. No conflicting legal identities or confirmed brand impersonation were found, so the elevated risk rests on the threat listings, not on identity conflict. Evidence:

• Homepage: the title asserts "#1 TRON AML Verification" and a "TRC20 Wallet Risk Score & Sanctions Screening" service, with no independent substantiation.
• Threat intelligence: 13 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across the security engines evaluated, including two tier-1 vendors, which triggered an automatic score ceiling.
• Browser behavior: 6 non-whitelisted external POST requests and 6 non-whitelisted external XHR calls were recorded, with 97.4% peak external traffic share and 6 console errors, but no wallet, clipboard, or cloaking abuse.
• Shared-platform address: 93 abuse reports, discounted as shared infrastructure with a zero confidence score.

Regulatory Verification Notes

The site claims to perform sanctions screening, an activity that normally implies compliance credentials, data-source disclosures, and a named operating entity. Nothing observed ties the page to a named company, a regulated status, or a recognizable brand, and the operator's real-world identity remains unestablished. No third-party regulatory or broker record matched the site, and this absence is not a finding in itself. Disclosure on the page is unclear. The service's screening methodology, data provenance, and accountable party are not demonstrated, so its risk scores cannot be treated as authoritative. Governance and ownership are opaque. This is an administrative limitation that compounds the reputational problem, and it is not an identity contradiction. The technical baseline is ordinary and gives no reassurance about operator legitimacy. Evidence:

• Homepage: about 22,000 characters of text were captured with an HTTP 200 response, but no operator, licensing, or registration details were evident.
• Hosting: served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
• Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WR1 at DV level, valid to 2026-11-27 (32 days remaining). DV validation confirms control of the domain only and says nothing about the operator.
• Third-party broker dataset: no match.

What to Verify Next

Before any engagement, the operator should be identified through an independent route, such as a documented corporate registration or a regulator register entry that names the entity behind the screening service. The accuracy claims of the risk-scoring should be tested against established, recognized blockchain-analytics services using non-sensitive sample addresses only. Whether the threat listings have been cleared or contested should be checked directly with the listing sources. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline source, not through the page. Evidence:

• Homepage: the service does not name a verifiable operator or a compliance data source.
• Browser behavior: outbound POST traffic to non-whitelisted destinations means the data recipients are unknown.
• Threat listings: they remain active as of this assessment.

Summary Verdict

The site is assessed as critically untrustworthy and carries an elevated risk posture. Confirmed adverse threat-intelligence findings dominate the assessment, and no legitimacy signal offsets them. Operator identity is unestablished, and the available technical hygiene is generic and carries no weight against the confirmed detections.

Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves to Amazon-operated address space and sits behind a trusted content-delivery and web-application-protection layer on a shared platform. All six observed addresses are edge servers, and no origin address is observable. Security tooling therefore cannot see the true hosting location or detect rapid content changes behind the edge. This protective infrastructure is a mitigating factor only. It cannot offset the active external threat listings, and it provides no evidence of legitimacy.

Closing Assessment

The site should not be used for login, credential entry, wallet submission, or any financial interaction. Any use should be limited to non-interactive viewing from an isolated environment, and no files should be downloaded. Anyone who has already entered wallet details or credentials should treat them as exposed, rotate or move assets where appropriate, and rely on established, independently verified compliance tools.

Signals weighed against the site

• AbuseIPDB: 93 reports on hosting IP 216.198.79.131 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.