Warning signs detected
26-year-old industrial supplier domain now shows unrelated retail listings and fake review counters, indicating compromise or misuse. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is apfelbaumind.com legit or a scam?
Be careful — we couldn't verify this site.
26-year-old industrial supplier domain now shows unrelated retail listings and fake review counters, indicating compromise or misuse.
Score breakdown
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
Website Preview
The site returned a server error when we tried to load it in our sandbox, so there was no page to capture. A working business almost always renders — treat this site as unverified.
We attempt a live render of every scanned site in a safe sandbox. This one couldn’t be reached — the failure itself is a signal, noted in the analysis below.
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
We could not load a live view of this site; the capture returned a server error.
What our vision model saw
1 signalLive capture returned a server/proxy error — the page could not be rendered
Intelligence
The domain itself is 26 years old with clean antivirus results and a valid SSL certificate. The company Apfelbaum Industrial, Inc. is a real registered business in El Paso, Texas with documented federal contracting history. However, the current page content promotes unrelated consumer goods such as party supplies and security labels instead of the company's actual turbine parts and substation equipment. The evidence package explicitly notes that these retail-style pages use standard e-commerce templates with fake review counters that do not match the legitimate B2B operation. This content mismatch on an otherwise established domain points to the site being compromised or repurposed without the owner's consent.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for apfelbaumind.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Apfelbaum Industrial, Inc. is a legitimate industrial supplier based in El Paso, Texas, specializing in power generation, transmission, and aircraft engine spare parts.
- The company has a verifiable history of federal government contracts and industrial services.
- The domain 'apfelbaumind.com' appears to be compromised or misused to host unrelated, automated e-commerce product pages (e.g., bowling party sets, fake breast plates, security labels).
- These e-commerce pages on the domain mimic standard retail site templates, including fake review counters and delivery promises, which do not align with the company's B2B industrial business model.
- The legitimate business contact information (Octavio Manzano, El Paso address) is correctly associated with the company in professional industrial directories, but the current web content on the domain is highly suspicious.
Apfelbaum Industrial, Inc. is a registered business based in El Paso, Texas, with federal government contracting history (CAGE 7MQJ0).
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for apfelbaumind.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The business registration check confirmed a legitimate active company in El Paso, Texas with documented government contracts. However, the evidence package notes that the current web content on the domain consists of unrelated automated retail listings that do not match the company's actual industrial operations.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 11, 2000Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 26 years old today.
- Jul 14, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as suspicious
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
apfelbaumind.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@apfelbaumind.com).
- Phone number listed (915-845-2009).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 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
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat apfelbaumind.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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Final Verdict
The domain hosts a legitimate 26-year-old industrial supplier but currently displays unrelated retail product listings. The mismatch between the company's real aerospace and power equipment business and the automated e-commerce pages suggests the site has been compromised or misused.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- apfelbaumind.com raises serious red flags as a scam site — avoid interacting with it. The domain is 26 years old through Network Solutions, LLC. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — apfelbaumind.com scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on apfelbaumind.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on apfelbaumind.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report apfelbaumind.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report apfelbaumind.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 — apfelbaumind.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.
- apfelbaumind.com is 26 years old, registered on July 11, 2000 through Network Solutions, 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 — apfelbaumind.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 6 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".
- apfelbaumind.com resolves to an IP operated by Internet Names For Business Inc. 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.
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