Is cardroomsports.com legit or a scam?
Aged sports gambling site with legitimate domain history but missing regulatory badges and unlicensed use of official sports branding.
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
Warning signs detected
Aged sports gambling site with legitimate domain history but missing regulatory badges and unlicensed use of official sports branding. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Website Preview
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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
The page depicts a sports card-game or sports-betting login portal branded 'Cardroom Sports' with a clean but minimal design; the use of official NBA and team logos without visible licensing attribution and the complete absence of regulatory or responsible gaming disclosures are the primary risk indicators visible on screen.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsLogin form (username + password) presented as the primary landing page with no visible registration link, terms, or licensing information
NBA Finals promotional banner at bottom uses official NBA, ABC, San Antonio Spurs, and New York Knicks branding/logos without any visible licensing attribution
No visible regulatory, gambling license, or responsible gaming badges anywhere on the page
Site presents itself as a sports gambling/fantasy platform but displays no jurisdiction or legal compliance indicators
MT Intelligence
The domain is genuinely old (registered in 2008, 6,585 days) and shows no malware, phishing, or abuse signals across our antivirus network, browser blocklists, or IP reputation data. Independent review aggregators rate it positively, and no scam complaints appear in public databases. However, the landing page presents a login-first interface with no visible terms, licensing information, or responsible gaming badges — a red flag for gambling sites operating in jurisdictions with strict disclosure requirements. The use of official NBA, ABC, and team logos without visible licensing attribution compounds this concern. The site's minimal web presence and lack of public business details (no contact email, phone, or address) are atypical for a 17-year-old operator claiming to run a legitimate sports platform. The combination of age and clean reputation against the absence of standard gambling-industry compliance markers creates moderate suspicion.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cardroomsports.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain created 30-May-2008 via registrar Gandi SAS (France); updated as recently as 2021; very old domain (17+ years).
- Scamadviser rates it as very likely legit and reliable with positive algorithm score.
- EvenInsight safety checker gives it 95/100 safety score and labels it safe.
- No user complaints, scam reports, or negative reviews found on Reddit, Trustpilot, or elsewhere.
- No detectable association with known scam families or impersonation of major brands.
- Searches for the domain primarily return safety checker pages; no active site description, business details, or prominent web presence identified.
- IP historically linked to 190.124.246.6; no WHOIS owner name publicly tied to a specific business entity in results.
Registered via Gandi SAS on 30-May-2008; over 17 years old (6585 days matches)
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for cardroomsports.com and found no scam reports or complaints. Two independent review aggregators rate the site positively with high safety scores. The domain is registered in France via Gandi SAS and has been active since 2008 with recent updates in 2021, indicating a long-standing operation. However, the absence of public business details, contact information, and regulatory disclosures on the landing page remains inconsistent with standard practices for legitimate gambling operators.
Antivirus Engines
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://cardroomsports.com/
- 2200https://cardroomsports.com/
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat cardroomsports.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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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review marked cardroomsports.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- cardroomsports.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. cardroomsports.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 25 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cardroomsports.com is 18.0 years old, registered on 5/30/2008 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report cardroomsports.com as clean.
- No. cardroomsports.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cardroomsports.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around cardroomsports.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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