Is acn-award.com legit or a scam?
A malicious Accenture clone site registered 23 days ago that uses typosquatting and stolen branding to facilitate phishing attacks.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 23 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The site is a direct copy of the official Accenture homepage, using their exact titles, meta descriptions, and visual assets without authorization. Our intelligence stack identified it as a typosquatting domain, which is a common tactic where attackers register names similar to famous brands to trick visitors. While the page currently redirects some traffic to the real site, this is a known technique used to bypass security filters before activating a phishing form. The domain is less than a month old and has already been flagged by multiple security engines in our antivirus network. There is no legitimate business reason for Accenture to host its content on a 23-day-old domain registered through a retail registrar with privacy protection.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for acn-award.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain is approximately 23 days old (consistent with reports of similar acn-awards.com registered December 1, 2025 via GoDaddy and hosted on Cloudflare)
- Page title and description are identical to Accenture's legitimate homepage at accenture.com/us-en
- Security scan of near-identical domain acn-awards.com (May 27, 2026) categorized it as Phishing with 19/91 engines flagging it, 5/100 trust score, and noted it imitates Accenture
- No mentions of acn-award.com on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or major review sites; no positive coverage found
- Accenture's official awards and recognition page is at accenture.com/us-en/about/awards-recognition; no official 'ACN Award' site matches this domain
- Very new domains mimicking large brands like Accenture are commonly used in phishing campaigns to steal credentials or deliver malware
- PCrisk report on similar domain notes HTTP redirect chain to accenture.com, valid TLS, but multiple malicious flags and 29 cookies
- PCrisk Scanneropen
"acn-awards.com is categorized as Business, Economy, Phishing... 19/91 threat engines flagged it... Trust score 5/100, potentially dangerous... appears to imitate Accenture site but domain doesn't match brand."
Page title and description exactly match Accenture's official US homepage ('U.S. | Let There Be Change | Accenture' and 'Accenture embraces the power of change...'); security scan notes it imitates Accenture with domain mismatch and redirects to accenture.com
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (107 74.4053).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://acn-award.com/
- 2301https://accenture.com/cross-domain
- 3301https://www.accenture.com/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.accenture.com/us-encross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of accenture.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of accenture.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of accenture.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of accenture.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with acn-award.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags acn-award.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — acn-award.com scored 14/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. acn-award.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 80 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- acn-award.com is 23 days old, registered on 6/5/2026 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report acn-award.com as clean.
- No. acn-award.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- acn-award.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 29, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around acn-award.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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