Critical risk detected
10 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (9 outright malicious). Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is coldwellbankerunited.ca legit or a scam?
Alberta real-estate site with nine malicious detections and contact addresses on free-mail providers.
Score breakdown
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
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Intelligence
The page claims to be Coldwell Banker United, a brokerage operating in Cochrane, Fort McMurray, and Lac La Biche. Nine antivirus engines flagged the URL, with BitDefender, Fortinet, and G-Data specifically marking it as phishing. Contact information shows ten phone numbers and five addresses, yet none of the ten listed emails use the coldwellbankerunited.ca domain. The domain itself is 4.4 years old and registered through Go Daddy, which is older than most scam sites. However, the combination of engine detections and mismatched contact details outweighs the domain age. The page loads external Google Maps and realtor.ca resources, indicating it is a functional site rather than parked.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for coldwellbankerunited.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for coldwellbankerunited.ca and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
Domain Timeline
- Feb 7, 2022Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4.4 years old today.
- Jul 7, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
coldwellbankerunited.ca 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
Scam Network
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 · referencedContact 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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (outlook.com) — unusual for a real business.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (403-809-2424).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://coldwellbankerunited.ca/
- 2301https://coldwellbankerunited.ca/
- 3200https://www.coldwellbankerunited.ca/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with coldwellbankerunited.ca
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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
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Final Verdict
The site presents itself as a real-estate brokerage serving Alberta. Nine of 92 engines flagged the page as malicious or phishing, and contact details rely on free-mail addresses rather than the site's own domain.
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 coldwellbankerunited.ca as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — coldwellbankerunited.ca scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. coldwellbankerunited.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 78 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- coldwellbankerunited.ca is 4.4 years old, registered on 2/7/2022 through Go Daddy Domains Canada, Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 10 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged coldwellbankerunited.ca as malicious or suspicious (9 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. coldwellbankerunited.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- coldwellbankerunited.ca 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 July 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around coldwellbankerunited.ca have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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