No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is boltsplus.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 1970-established fasteners retailer with a 27-year-old domain, clean blocklist status, and active US business records.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as Bolts 'n Nuts Plus, an industrial fasteners supplier based in Houston, Texas. The domain is over 27 years old and matches the company's long-stated founding date of 1970. Our research located active business registration records and found no scam reports or complaints. The only minor flag is a countdown-style minimum-order notice, which is common on legitimate retail sites. Overall signals point to a genuine, long-operating business rather than a fraudulent operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot 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
Professional e-commerce layout for a fasteners retailer with one intrusive modal; no scam indicators visible.
What our vision model saw
1 signalIntrusive blue 'Buying Alert' modal overlay covering hero section content
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for boltsplus.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- boltsplus.com is the website for Bolts 'n Nuts Plus, established 1970 in Houston, TX to supply industrial fasteners
- Company offers online ordering with nationwide delivery; phone (800) 840-1881 and info@boltsplus.com listed
- Active presence on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/boltsplus) and Facebook
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative Reddit mentions found for boltsplus.com in searches
- Domain age 10039 days; page title and description match legitimate fastener retailer
- Separate Canadian company boltsplus.ca exists with its own reviews; no relation indicated
Established 1970 in Houston, TX; ongoing operations confirmed via company site and LinkedIn
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for boltsplus.com and found no scam reports or complaints. Business registration records confirm an active US company established in 1970 in Houston, TX, with matching contact details.
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.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@boltsplus.com).
- Phone number listed ((800) 840-1881).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://boltsplus.com/
- 2200https://boltsplus.com/
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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
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 boltsplus.com and not a lookalike like b-oltsplus.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
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 found no threat indicators on boltsplus.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- boltsplus.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. boltsplus.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- boltsplus.com is 27.5 years old, registered on 12/1/1998 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. boltsplus.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- boltsplus.com resolves to an IP operated by Softsys Hosting 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.
- 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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