Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of Accenture's official site on a six-month-old domain that multiple vendors flag for phishing. 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.
Is acn-awards.com legit or a scam?
Clone of Accenture's official site on a six-month-old domain that multiple vendors flag for phishing.
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
MT Intelligence
The page exactly copies Accenture's title, meta description, and navigation while using the domain acn-awards.com. The domain is only 177 days old, has no business registration records, and carries a 35/100 suspicion score tied to the accenture.com clone match. Eleven or more security vendors flag the site for phishing, and two independent review sites assign it extremely low trust scores. The combination of impersonation, recent registration, and blocklist hits outweighs the clean IP reputation and valid SSL certificate.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for acn-awards.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain acn-awards.com registered ~Dec 1, 2025 (age ~177 days / 6 months) via GoDaddy; expires Dec 2027.
- Site title and meta description exactly match Accenture's official U.S. page content.
- Redirects to https://www.accenture.com/us-en.
- Flagged by 11+ security vendors (ESET, Fortinet, Google Safebrowsing, Sophos, etc.) primarily for phishing.
- Gridinsoft trust score 1/100; multiple blacklists for phishing/heuristic scam signals.
- No user reviews, complaints, or Reddit discussions found specifically about the domain.
- Hybrid Analysis has a malware sample submission referencing the domain.
- Gridinsoftopen
"acn-awards.com should not be treated as a safe website. Gridinsoft gives it a 1/100 trust score, and multiple security vendors blacklist the domain."
- Scam-Detectoropen
"Is acn-awards.com legit? Well, it's suspicious, as it received an overall low trust score based on our chart. We put to work 53 powerful factors to expose ..."
Page title 'U.S. | Let There Be Change | Accenture' and description match Accenture's official site; domain uses 'acn-' prefix (Accenture ticker).
Gridinsoft reports a 1/100 trust score and notes that multiple security vendors blacklist the domain. Scam-Detector also gives the site a low overall trust score based on 53 risk factors. No positive reviews, business registrations, or user complaints were found in the searched sources.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (107 74.4053).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://acn-awards.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
0 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.
- Page claims to be OpenAI / ChatGPT.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 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.
- Page claims to be OpenAI / ChatGPT.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with acn-awards.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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags acn-awards.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — acn-awards.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. acn-awards.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- acn-awards.com is 5 months old, registered on 12/1/2025 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. acn-awards.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- acn-awards.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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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