Warning signs detected
4 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (2 outright malicious). Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is cleoconsult.com legit or a scam?
Be careful — we couldn't verify this site.
IT recruitment site with mixed signals: 12.9-year-old domain and Canadian registration, yet flagged by two engines and questioned on Reddit for unsolicited messages.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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 displays a standard corporate modal overlay promoting a workplace certification, which is common for legitimate business websites.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsProminent modal overlay displaying a 'Great Place to Work' certification badge
Carousel navigation dots and directional arrows present within the modal
Professional corporate branding and layout consistent with a business website
Intelligence
The site claims to be an established IT consulting and recruitment firm operating in the US, Canada, and India. Two engines flagged the page as malicious or phishing while 88 abuse reports exist on the hosting IP. The domain itself is over twelve years old and the company appears in Canadian business records as an active supplier to public-sector entities. No contact email, phone, or address appears on the page itself, which is unusual for a legitimate staffing firm. Reddit users have flagged unsolicited LinkedIn messages from someone claiming to represent the company as potentially scammy. The combination of engine detections, missing contact information, and community suspicion outweighs the positive employee reviews and long domain age.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cleoconsult.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Cleo Consulting Inc. is a registered IT staffing and recruitment firm with a physical presence in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
- The company is listed as an approved supplier partner for the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM), serving public sector clients like the Ontario Government.
- Automated trust platforms like ScamAdviser have flagged the domain with a low trust score, primarily due to low traffic rankings and the nature of the recruitment industry.
- Some job seekers on Reddit have expressed suspicion regarding unsolicited recruitment outreach, citing the website's appearance as 'unprofessional'.
- The company maintains a 'Great Place to Work' certification and positive employee reviews on platforms like Indeed, suggesting it is a functioning business entity.
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, cleoconsult.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam."
- Reddit (r/recruitinghell)open
"Has anyone worked with cleoconsult.com seems scammy. I got this message on LinkedIn from someone named Amit... The site looks unpro and I'm not sure if I should mess with this guy."
Listed as a supplier partner for OECM (Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace) with an address in Burlington, Ontario.
Our research found two scam-related mentions. An automated trust checker flagged cleoconsult.com with a very low trust score. A Reddit thread in r/recruitinghell questioned whether the company is legitimate after users received unsolicited LinkedIn messages. Two positive mentions exist: employee reviews on Indeed praising the work culture, and a Great Place to Work certification showing 95% employee approval. The company is registered in Canada and listed as a supplier partner for the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace.
Domain Timeline
- Aug 6, 2013Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 years old today.
- Jul 17, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as suspicious
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
cleoconsult.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://cleoconsult.com/
- 2200https://cleoconsult.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat cleoconsult.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.
- OpenShare your experience
If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.
Final Verdict
Cleo Consulting presents as an IT staffing and recruitment firm. Two security engines flagged the site as malicious or phishing, and Reddit users have questioned unsolicited outreach from the company. The domain is 12.9 years old with a Canadian business registration, but contact details are missing from the page.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- cleoconsult.com raises serious red flags as a scam site — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for fake job. 4 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). The domain is 13 years old through HOSTINGER operations, UAB. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — cleoconsult.com scores 46/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on cleoconsult.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on cleoconsult.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report cleoconsult.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 4 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged cleoconsult.com, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — cleoconsult.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- cleoconsult.com is 13 years old, registered on August 6, 2013 through HOSTINGER operations, UAB. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — cleoconsult.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 65 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- cleoconsult.com resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, Inc in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
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