Security Review

Is blackmountaintrans.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Scottsdale car-service site flagged by multiple antivirus engines as phishing; legitimate domain age conflicts with poor reputation and high detection rate.

blackmountaintrans.comScanned 3h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 40
Category tags
transportationlocal services#Fake Shop#Clone Site72% MT confidence
Technical red flags (1)

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.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
14/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
15 years old
Registered Jul 14, 2011
MT Intelligence
Suspicious
High likelihood · 72% confidence
DANGEROUS

Critical risk detected

13 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
High scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust40/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The site presents itself as Black Mountain Transportation, a Scottsdale-based car service with 10+ years of operation. The domain itself is genuinely old (5,443 days, registered via GoDaddy), and the SSL certificate is valid. However, six antivirus engines—including BitDefender, CyRadar, and Emsisoft—flag the page as phishing, while ADMINUSLabs and Chong Lua Dao mark it malicious. This detection consensus is a strong signal of credential harvesting or impersonation, not a legitimate business. Independent trust aggregators rate the site at 40/100, well below the threshold for a trustworthy local service. The absence of a contact email, postal address, or social-media links on the page is unusual for a decade-old transportation company. The combination of old domain age with current phishing detections suggests the domain may have been compromised or repurposed.
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Page Content

The page displays a professional car-service layout with service descriptions (airport transfers, corporate travel, sporting events), a booking flow, and contact phone numbers. No contact email or postal address is visible. The body text claims 10+ years of local experience, licensed and insured operations, and professional drivers. No login form, countdown timer, or push-notification spam detected.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt, 82 days to expiry). Hosting IP 194.11.214.249 has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score (0/100 abuse). Single redirect, no cross-domain or homoglyph tricks. External resources load from legitimate CDNs (Google Fonts, gmpg.org).

Domain History

Domain registered 5,443 days ago (approximately 14.9 years) via GoDaddy, with privacy protection disabled. Despite the old registration, the site is not indexed in global traffic rankings, which is atypical for an established local business.

Web Reputation

Six antivirus engines flag the page as phishing or malicious: BitDefender, CyRadar, Emsisoft, alphaMountain.ai, ADMINUSLabs, and Chong Lua Dao. Browser blocklists are clean. Independent trust aggregators rate it 40/100 (questionable). The consensus detection pattern strongly suggests the page is being used for credential harvesting or impersonation, despite the legitimate domain age.

Risk Factors
6
  • Six antivirus engines flag the page as phishing or malicious, including tier-1 detectors BitDefender and Emsisoft.
  • Independent trust aggregators rate the site 40/100, well below the threshold for a legitimate business.
  • No contact email or postal address visible on the page, unusual for a 14-year-old transportation company.
  • Domain not indexed in global traffic rankings despite claimed 10+ years of operation.
  • Phishing detection consensus suggests credential harvesting or impersonation rather than legitimate service.
  • Reputation score of 0 across our antivirus network indicates no positive standing.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain is genuinely old (5,443 days / ~14.9 years), not a fresh registration.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt with 82 days remaining.
  • Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and clean reputation.
  • No malicious redirects, homoglyphs, or IDN tricks detected.
  • Page loads without sandbox flags and uses legitimate external CDNs.
AI Recommendation
Do not enter payment details or personal information on this site. If you are looking for a legitimate Scottsdale car service, verify the business independently by calling local transportation companies directly or checking established review platforms for verified customer feedback.
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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 blackmountaintrans.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
14 yrs
Registered Jul 2011
Independent review aggregators
40/100 · questionable
Average across 1 independent review aggregator.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Web ratings
Scores pulled directly from third-party trust & review sites
ScamAdviser
40/100
Questionableopen
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No scam reports or complaints found in available sources.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
14 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

13Malicious1Suspicious48Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
alphaMountain.ai
Malicious· phishing
BitDefender
Malicious· phishing
Chong Lua Dao
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· phishing
Emsisoft
Malicious· phishing
Fortinet
Malicious· phishing
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· phishing
SOCRadar
Malicious· phishing
Sophos
Malicious· phishing
VIPRE
Malicious· malware
Webroot
Malicious· malicious
Gridinsoft
Suspicious· suspicious

14 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers(480) 251-6727
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed ((480) 251-6727).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age15 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredJul 14, 2011
ExpiresJul 14, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR2
ExpiresAug 31, 2026 (82d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingHostinger International Limited
Server locationUS
Web serverLiteSpeed
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://blackmountaintrans.com/
  • 2200https://blackmountaintrans.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPHostinger International Limited
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Avoid this site

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  • Do not interact with blackmountaintrans.com

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  • 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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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 blackmountaintrans.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — blackmountaintrans.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. blackmountaintrans.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • blackmountaintrans.com is 14.9 years old, registered on 7/14/2011 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged blackmountaintrans.com as malicious or suspicious (13 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. blackmountaintrans.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • blackmountaintrans.com resolves to an IP operated by Hostinger International Limited in US (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.
  • Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for blackmountaintrans.com: ScamAdviser: 40/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·blackmountaintrans.com
DANGEROUS

A Scottsdale car-service site with legitimate-looking content, but 6 antivirus engines flag it as phishing or malicious, and independent trust aggregators rate it poorly. The domain is old (14+ years), yet the low trust score and detection pattern suggest credential harvesting or impersonation.

Do not enter payment details or personal information on this site. If you are looking for a legitimate Scottsdale car service, verify the business independently by calling local transportation companies directly or checking established review platforms for verified customer feedback.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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