No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is cmac.ws legit or a scam?
Legitimate USA business directory with clean scans, established company profiles, and substantial US traffic.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a directory of over 15 million US businesses with maps, categories, and listing submission features. All technical checks returned clean results including zero antivirus detections, valid SSL, and a hosting IP with no abuse history. Our research located Crunchbase and Tracxn profiles describing the service as founded around 2006 along with an active Facebook page and Semrush traffic data showing nearly 373K monthly US visits. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appeared in the evidence. The combination of age signals, clean infrastructure, and absence of negative findings supports a safe verdict.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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
Clean, professional local directory site with no visible scam indicators or suspicious elements.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cmac.ws, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Operates as USA Business Directory at cmac.ws with claims of 15,000,000+ business listings, maps, and directions
- Company profile on Crunchbase: information service providing maps and directories, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
- Tracxn profile: founded 2006, unfunded, based in Canandaigua, United States, online listing platform
- Active social media: Facebook page with 1013 likes describing the directory service
- Traffic data from Semrush: ranked #24468 in US with 372.76K traffic (April 2026 data)
- No scam, fraud, or complaint mentions found across targeted web searches including Reddit
- Subdomain scamadviser check (roofing-contractors.cmac.ws) states it appears legit and safe
Listed on Crunchbase as private company in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Tracxn lists unfunded company in Canandaigua, US, founded 2006
Our research located Crunchbase and Tracxn profiles for the directory service along with an active Facebook page and notable US traffic rankings. No scam reports, fraud mentions, or consumer complaints were found across web sources including Reddit.
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.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cmac.ws/
- 2301https://cmac.ws/
- 3200https://www.cmac.ws/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 cmac.ws and not a lookalike like c-mac.ws.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 cmac.ws. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cmac.ws passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cmac.ws presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 93 antivirus engines in our malware network report cmac.ws as clean.
- No. cmac.ws is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cmac.ws resolves to an IP operated by DigitalOcean, LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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