No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is 28statecars.com legit or a scam?
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Legitimate UK dealership site for importing American cars with 6.8-year-old domain and registered company.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a standard, functional business site for a car dealership with no visible indicators of malicious intent or scam patterns.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsStandard cookie consent banner present
Professional website layout for a car dealership
No suspicious urgency tactics or fake trust badges observed
Intelligence
The domain registered in 2019 and shows no malicious flags across our antivirus network or sandbox. Hosting IP carries zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Business registration confirms Palamino NW Ltd trading as 28 State Cars with an active UK company number. One positive review on a business directory matches the physical address listed in search results. The page displays standard dealership content without urgency tactics or fake trust signals. Occasional unrelated search results are explained as SEO-poisoning attempts against the legitimate domain rather than site compromise.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for 28statecars.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- 28statecars.com is the official website for '28 State Cars', a car dealership based in Burscough, Lancashire, UK.
- The business operates under the registered company name 'Palamino NW Ltd' (Company Number: 09494133).
- The dealership is listed on reputable automotive platforms such as Car and Classic, which confirms their history of vehicle sales since at least 2020.
- Search results for the domain occasionally display unrelated product listings (e.g., electronics, clothing); this is a known SEO-poisoning technique where third-party sites abuse legitimate domains to rank for spam keywords, rather than the
- Physical address and contact details (Unit 10, Swordfish Business Park, Burscough) are consistent across multiple business directories.
- Cylex UKopen
"Customers of 28 State Cars in Burscough rave about the exceptional service and quality of vehicles provided by Richard and Jill. Reviews highlight the accurate descriptions of cars."
Registered as Palamino NW Ltd (Company Number: 09494133) trading as 28 State Cars.
Our research located no scam reports or complaints against 28statecars.com. A single positive review on Cylex UK highlights good service from owners Richard and Jill. Business records confirm the company operates as Palamino NW Ltd with an active UK registration. The dealership also appears on established automotive platforms with documented sales history since 2020.
Domain Timeline
- Sep 24, 2019Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6.8 years old today.
- Jul 14, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
28statecars.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on 28statecars.com and not a lookalike like 2-8statecars.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
28statecars.com is the website for a UK-based American car dealership operating as Palamino NW Ltd. The domain is 6.8 years old with clean scans and a registered UK company behind it. No scam reports or malicious indicators appear in our checks.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on 28statecars.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 6.8 years old, registered on September 24, 2019 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- 28statecars.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from 28statecars.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from 28statecars.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report 28statecars.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — 28statecars.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- 28statecars.com is 6.8 years old, registered on September 24, 2019 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — 28statecars.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 56 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- 28statecars.com resolves to an IP operated by WEBSITEWELCOME.COM in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about 28statecars.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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