No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is clevelandclinic.org legit or a scam?
Official Cleveland Clinic healthcare site on a decades-old domain with zero malware detections and confirmed non-profit registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays the real Cleveland Clinic branding, contact numbers, and services matching their known operations since 1921. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with no flags. The domain is over 28 years old, hosted on a clean IP with valid SSL, and matches official records as a US non-profit. While independent review aggregator and BBB show hundreds of customer complaints about billing and service quality, these target the real organization rather than indicating a fake site. Multiple reports of robocall impersonation further confirm this is the authentic domain being targeted by scammers, not the source of fraud.
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 clevelandclinic.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Official website confirmed: clevelandclinic.org listed on Wikipedia and redirects/hosts my.clevelandclinic.org content
- - Domain WHOIS: Registered via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC; status client transfer prohibited; nameservers Cloudflare
- - BBB: 251 total complaints for Cleveland Clinic Foundation in last 3 years, 87 closed in last 12 months
- - Trustpilot: 1.5/5 rating based on 232 reviews, multiple billing and service complaints
- - Impersonation: Multiple reports of robocalls and scams falsely claiming to be from Cleveland Clinic
- - Founded 1921 as non-profit; operates main campus in Cleveland, OH with multiple locations
- - No evidence of domain being a clone or typosquat of another brand
- Trustpilotopen
"Cleveland Clinic Florida is one big scam company."
- Trustpilotopen
"FRAUD company. STAY AWAY from Cleveland Clinic Florida."
- Trustpilotopen
"This is a old Cleve Clinic trick, did it before. They send your money back and a year later send you a bill."
- News5Clevelandopen
"Phony Cleveland Clinic robocall claimed to have personal medical info"
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, non-profit academic medical center
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.
- Phone number listed (800.223.2273).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://clevelandclinic.org/
- 2302https://www.clevelandclinic.org/cross-domain
- 3200https://my.clevelandclinic.org/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 clevelandclinic.org and not a lookalike like c-levelandclinic.org.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 clevelandclinic.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- clevelandclinic.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. clevelandclinic.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- clevelandclinic.org is 28.4 years old, registered on 1/8/1998 through GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC. 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 clevelandclinic.org as clean.
- No. clevelandclinic.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- clevelandclinic.org 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.
- 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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