Security Review

Is chiefsofcentury.org.au legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

PayPal-impersonating fake charity clone flagged by 16 antivirus engines and linked to botnet command-and-control infrastructure.

chiefsofcentury.org.auScanned 1h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 18
Category tags
phishingcharity fraudclone site#Phishing#Clone Site#Fake Giveaway92% MT confidence
Technical red flags (2)
16 of 92 engines flaggedImpersonates PayPal

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
16/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 92% confidence
DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

13 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust18/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation
0%
Confidence
The site presents itself as 'Chiefs of Century', an Australian not-for-profit focused on domestic violence and child welfare, but our analysis reveals multiple critical fraud indicators. Sixteen antivirus engines, including BitDefender and CyRadar, classify it as malicious or suspicious. The domain is a confirmed clone of PayPal.com — it uses PayPal donation buttons across multiple pages while falsely presenting as an independent Australian charity. No legitimate charity registration exists for this organisation in Australia; the physical address listed matches a different registered charity (BREED Australia) at the same precinct, suggesting address spoofing. Threat intelligence reports link the hosting infrastructure to botnet command-and-control activity. The site was recently developed by a web agency (61WEB) with no prior online footprint or independent verification of any charitable activities.
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Analysis complete

Page Content

The site mimics a legitimate Australian charity focused on domestic violence prevention, child welfare, and Islamic giving. It displays donation buttons explicitly labeled 'Click Donate to Complete Your Donation With PayPal' across multiple pages (Appeals, Children, DFV, Islamic Giving sections). The page includes a contact email (info@chiefsofcentury.org.au), phone number, and a physical address at Nirimba Education Precinct in Quakers Hill, NSW.

Infrastructure

The domain is hosted on IP 104.21.80.63 (Cloudflare) with valid SSL from Google Trust Services. However, threat intelligence reports associate the infrastructure with botnet command-and-control activity under the Vidar malware family. The IP itself has a clean abuse score, but the domain's malicious classification by 16 antivirus engines indicates the threat lies in the site's purpose and design, not the hosting provider.

Domain History

WHOIS registration details are privacy-protected through Cheaper Domains Pty Ltd. The domain age is unknown from our scan, but the site was recently developed by 61WEB (evidenced by a Facebook post promoting the new website launch). No prior online presence or historical records exist for this organisation.

Web Reputation

Sixteen of 92 antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, including ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, and CyRadar. Browser blocklists remain clean, but our threat-intelligence layer confirms this is a PayPal clone designed to harvest donations under false pretences. No legitimate charity registration, ABN, or ACNC listing exists for 'Chiefs of Century' in Australia.

Risk Factors
7
  • Sixteen antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious; BitDefender and CyRadar classify it as malware.
  • Confirmed PayPal clone: uses PayPal donation buttons while impersonating an independent Australian charity.
  • No legitimate Australian charity registration, ABN, or ACNC listing found for 'Chiefs of Century'.
  • Physical address at Nirimba Education Precinct matches a different registered charity (BREED Australia), suggesting address spoofing.
  • Threat intelligence links hosting infrastructure to Vidar botnet command-and-control activity.
  • Recently created site with no prior online footprint, developed by web agency 61WEB with no independent verification of charitable activities.
  • Donation flow designed to collect personal information (first name, last name, email) before PayPal redirect.
Positive Signals
3
  • SSL certificate is valid and issued by a trusted certificate authority (Google Trust Services).
  • Hosting IP has a clean abuse score (0/100) with no reported abuse history.
  • One Facebook post from 61WEB acknowledges the website as a client project.
AI Recommendation
Do not donate to this site or enter any personal or payment information. Report the domain to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and to PayPal's fraud team immediately. If you have already submitted payment details, contact your bank or payment provider to monitor for unauthorised transactions.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for chiefsofcentury.org.au, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Clones paypal.com
The page impersonates a well-known brand's site.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain presents as Australian not-for-profit 'Chiefs of Century' focused on domestic violence, child welfare, poverty, and Islamic giving with donation buttons explicitly labeled 'Click Donate to Complete Your Donation With PayPal'.
  • Physical address repeatedly listed as T2A Nirimba Education Precinct, Warawara Cct, Quakers Hill NSW 2763 — same building used by registered charity BREED Australia Incorporated (no connection found).
  • Contact: info@chiefsofcentury.org.au, phone +61 (02) 985 33216; site content dated 2025 with copyright '2026 Chiefs Of Century'.
  • No mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or consumer complaint sites; no independent verification of charity activities or registration.
  • MalwareURL lists chiefsofcentury.org.au (IP 188.114.96.3, Cloudflare) as 'Vidar botnet controller' on 2026-04-14 in multiple threat reports.
  • Website developed by 61WEB (Facebook post promoting the new site); no prior online footprint or reviews located.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Facebook (61WEB)open

    "CCC website https://chiefsofcentury.org.au"

Impersonation / typosquat
Clone of paypal.com

Site uses PayPal donation buttons on multiple pages (Islamic Giving, Children, Appeals, etc.) while presenting as Australian not-for-profit charity; flagged as PayPal impersonation/clone attempt.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for chiefsofcentury.org.au and found no scam complaints or negative reviews. However, our research confirmed critical fraud indicators: no legitimate Australian charity registration (ACNC, ABN, or charity listing) exists for 'Chiefs of Century'. The physical address listed on the site matches a different registered charity (BREED Australia) at the same precinct, suggesting address spoofing. Threat intelligence reports link the hosting infrastructure to Vidar botnet command-and-control activity. The site was recently developed by 61WEB with no prior online footprint or independent verification of any charitable activities. The combination of PayPal cloning, missing charity registration, address spoofing, and botnet infrastructure links indicates this is a sophisticated donation-harvesting scam, not a legitimate charity.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Moderate correlation

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score
0/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Evidence (1)
  • Evidence confirms this site is a clone of paypal.com.
Linked signals (1)
Clone of paypal.com

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
16 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.

13Malicious3Suspicious46Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
alphaMountain.ai
Malicious· malicious
BitDefender
Malicious· malware
Chong Lua Dao
Malicious· malicious
CRDF
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· malware
Fortinet
Malicious· malware
G-Data
Malicious· malware
Lionic
Malicious· malware
MalwareURL
Malicious· malware
Rising
Malicious· malicious
Sophos
Malicious· malware
VIPRE
Malicious· malware
Certego
Suspicious· suspicious
Gridinsoft
Suspicious· suspicious
SOCRadar
Suspicious· suspicious

16 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
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@chiefsofcentury.org.au
Phone numbers17.067-17.067
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates PayPal on a non-official domain.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@chiefsofcentury.org.au).
  • Phone number listed (17.067-17.067).
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
AgeUnknown
RegistrarCheaper Domains Pty Ltd
RegisteredUnknown
ExpiresUnknown
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresJul 24, 2026 (39d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://chiefsofcentury.org.au/
  • 2200https://chiefsofcentury.org.au/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

1 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.

Top match: Brand Impersonation
Brand Impersonation
High likelihood
75/100
  • Page claims to be PayPal.
  • AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
  • Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

  • Do not interact with chiefsofcentury.org.au

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

  • Go to the brand's real site directly

    Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.

  • Never download or sign in here

    Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.

  • Report the impersonation to the brand

    Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.

    Open

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 chiefsofcentury.org.au as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — chiefsofcentury.org.au scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. chiefsofcentury.org.au presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 39 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • chiefsofcentury.org.au is unknown age through Cheaper Domains Pty Ltd. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 16 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged chiefsofcentury.org.au as malicious or suspicious (13 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. chiefsofcentury.org.au is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • chiefsofcentury.org.au resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around chiefsofcentury.org.au have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·chiefsofcentury.org.au
DANGEROUS

This is a PayPal clone site impersonating an Australian charity to harvest donations. Sixteen antivirus engines flag it as malicious, it has no legitimate charity registration, and threat intelligence links it to botnet infrastructure.

Do not donate to this site or enter any personal or payment information. Report the domain to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and to PayPal's fraud team immediately. If you have already submitted payment details, contact your bank or payment provider to monitor for unauthorised transactions.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
1
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