No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is cdw.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Fortune 500 IT hardware and services provider with a 31-year-old domain and clean security scans.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as the official online presence of CDW Corporation, a publicly traded company offering IT hardware, software, and services. The domain is over 31 years old with valid SSL and zero detections from our antivirus network or blocklists. Our research confirms active SEC filings and multiple security certifications. While independent review aggregator shows negative reviews about service quality and BBB lists 37 complaints, these center on delivery and support rather than scams. No clone indicators, malware, or phishing elements appear in the scan.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cdw.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain cdw.com registered October 18, 1994 (31+ years old)
- CDW Corporation is a publicly traded Fortune 500 IT solutions provider with SEC filings and investor relations site
- BBB reports 37 total complaints in the last 3 years (18 closed in last 12 months)
- Trustpilot: 1.3/5 rating from 100 reviews, multiple users accuse of poor service or scams
- Scamadviser rates cdw.com as legit with average to good trust score
- Company maintains security certifications including PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
- Trustpilotopen
"They're basically running a scam, and it's insane to think that this is being allowed to happen."
- Trustpilotopen
"A complete joke and waste of time, if you need hard drives go with B&H or Adorama, CDW is a scam, and a joke of a company."
- Trustpilotopen
"DO NOT TRUST them or buy anything from them they are scammers"
Public company (NASDAQ: CDW), founded 1984, Fortune 500, headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL; SEC filings available
Our research found three negative independent review aggregator reviews accusing CDW of scams or poor service. Two positive mentions appear on review sites confirming the site is legitimate. BBB reports 37 complaints in three years, mostly closed service issues. The company is verified as a real public Fortune 500 business with active registrations and certifications.
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
- 1301http://cdw.com/
- 2200https://www.cdw.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 cdw.com and not a lookalike like c-dw.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 cdw.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cdw.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cdw.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36, expiring in 144 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cdw.com is 31.6 years old, registered on 10/18/1994 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 cdw.com as clean.
- No. cdw.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cdw.com resolves to an IP operated by CDW LLC in US (usage type: Commercial). 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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