No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is artandsoultraders.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 24-year-old mural commission site tied to a real UK company with no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as Art & Soul Traders, offering hand-painted mural commissions with detailed content about artist Mark Lewis and projects in Portsmouth. The domain is 24 years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP showing zero abuse reports. Our research located the matching UK company ART & SOUL TRADERS C.I.C. registered since 2002, along with a Facebook page using the same contact details. No scam reports, complaints, or malicious detections appear in any feeds. The only minor note is the company status showing as dissolved in early 2026, but this does not affect the site's clean history or content.
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 artandsoultraders.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain artandsoultraders.com has been active for 8769 days (~24 years)
- Company ART & SOUL TRADERS C.I.C. registered in UK since Dec 2002, recently dissolved Jan 2026
- Business operates as mural artists in Portsmouth UK, with 30+ years history mentioned on site and social media
- Facebook page @artandsoultraders exists with contact details matching site
- No scam, complaint, or review mentions found tied to the domain in searches
- Site content describes hand-painted mural commissions; multiple YouTube/Facebook references to Mark Lewis murals in Portsmouth
ART & SOUL TRADERS C.I.C. (company 04611723) incorporated 9 Dec 2002, dissolved 27 Jan 2026; registered office 43a Kingston Road, Portsmouth
Our research found the UK company ART & SOUL TRADERS C.I.C. registered since December 2002 with a Portsmouth address, recently showing dissolved status in 2026. The Facebook page matches the site's contact details. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found tied to the domain.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (2000-2004).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://artandsoultraders.com/
- 2200https://www.artandsoultraders.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 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 mentions Google (non-official domain).
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 mentions Google (non-official domain).
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 artandsoultraders.com and not a lookalike like a-rtandsoultraders.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 found no threat indicators on artandsoultraders.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- artandsoultraders.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. artandsoultraders.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 261 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- artandsoultraders.com is 24.0 years old, registered on 5/24/2002 through Tucows Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. artandsoultraders.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- artandsoultraders.com resolves to an IP operated by Elite Limited in GB (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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