SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is clevelandclinic.org legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 81/100

Official Cleveland Clinic healthcare site on a decades-old domain with zero malware detections and confirmed non-profit registration.

clevelandclinic.orgScanned 7d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 86·MT 78
Category tags
healthcare90% MT confidence
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
28 years old
Registered Jan 8, 1998
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust78/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
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.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

Professional medical center homepage with provider search, appointment tools, health library, and contact details for Cleveland Clinic locations. No login forms, countdowns, or suspicious elements detected.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Google Trust Services, clean hosting IP with zero abuse reports, and two cross-domain redirects that land on the expected official content. External resources are limited to standard analytics and font providers.

Domain History

Registered 10,368 days ago through GoDaddy Corporate Domains with client transfer protection enabled. Matches known official Cleveland Clinic records and is not a clone or typosquat.

Web Reputation

Business registration confirmed as active US non-profit. Independent review sites show 251 complaints focused on billing and service, plus isolated reports of third-party robocalls impersonating the clinic.

Risk Factors
3
  • 251 BBB complaints in the last three years, mostly about billing and service quality.
  • independent review aggregator rating of 1.5/5 with multiple negative reviews on Cleveland Clinic Florida operations.
  • Reports of robocalls falsely claiming to be from Cleveland Clinic using personal medical details.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 28 years ago with client transfer protection and no privacy masking.
  • Zero detections across our antivirus network and browser blocklists.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and clean reputation.
  • Business registration confirmed as active US non-profit academic medical center founded in 1921.
  • Page content and external links match official Cleveland Clinic locations and services.
AI Recommendation
This is the legitimate Cleveland Clinic website. Use it for medical information and appointments, but review any bills carefully and report suspicious calls claiming to be from the clinic.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

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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.

Domain age
28 yrs
Registered Jan 1998
Business registration
Active · US
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
4 scam reports · 251 complaints
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • - 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
Scam reports (4)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • 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"

Business registration
Status: active · US

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, non-profit academic medical center

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
independent review aggregator contains several negative reviews calling Cleveland Clinic Florida a scam with billing issues. A local news outlet reported on robocalls falsely claiming to be from Cleveland Clinic. BBB shows 251 complaints for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, with many related to service and billing.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious62Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers800.223.2273
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles6
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • 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

Domain History
Age28 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
RegisteredJan 8, 1998
ExpiresJan 7, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresAug 27, 2026 (89d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1302http://clevelandclinic.org/
  • 2302https://www.clevelandclinic.org/cross-domain
  • 3200https://my.clevelandclinic.org/cross-domain

Server Reputation

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

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

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
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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.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·clevelandclinic.org
SAFE

Cleveland Clinic's official non-profit medical center website. Clean technical scan on a 28-year-old domain with valid business registration confirms legitimacy. Users should note existing service and billing complaints but the site itself poses no malware or phishing risk.

This is the legitimate Cleveland Clinic website. Use it for medical information and appointments, but review any bills carefully and report suspicious calls claiming to be from the clinic.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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