Subscription trap / hidden billing
Domain is only 32 days old. A "free trial" or "$1 trial" combined with auto-renew language means your card will be charged repeatedly. Call your bank to block the merchant if you signed up.
Is edgeiqlabs.com legit or a scam?
Brand-new cybersecurity subscription site using crypto-only checkout and subscription-trap templates on a 32-day-old domain.
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
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a legitimate small-business cybersecurity monitoring service with free tools and monthly reports. The strongest red flags are the 32-day domain age combined with explicit scam-family matches for crypto-only checkout and subscription trap. No malware detections appeared in our antivirus network and the page looks professionally designed with valid SSL. Our web research found zero scam reports or complaints, which is common for brand-new sites but does not offset the template signals. The combination of very recent registration, missing business details, and payment-pattern matches lowers trust significantly.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, professional dark-themed landing page with standard navigation, CTAs, and legitimate-looking trust indicators (Cloudflare, Stripe). No scam patterns detected.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for edgeiqlabs.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain edgeiqlabs.com appears to be approximately 32 days old as of May 2026
- Site title and description: 'EdgeIQ Labs — Cybersecurity Monitoring for Small Business' offering subscription services including uptime checks, SSL alerts, and security scanning
- Privacy policy page last updated May 2, 2026, with contact email protected on edgeiqlabs.com
- Self-promoted by Gaetano F. Palmieri (LinkedIn: IT specialist) on Reddit (r/alphaandbetausers), Hacker News, LinkedIn, Spiceworks, and dev.to with links to edgeiqlabs.com and free tools like subdomain scanner
- No scam, fraud, complaint, or independent review mentions found across multiple searches for 'edgeiqlabs.com scam', 'EdgeIQ Labs review', etc.
- GitHub user EdgeIQ-Labs active with various projects; LinkedIn posts reference building 14 security/OSINT tools
Scam Network Intelligence
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Scam family match: Crypto-Only Checkout.
- Scam family match: Subscription Trap.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Free-trial / $1-trial pitch combined with auto-renew / rebill language.
- Primary scraped category: subscription trap / negative-option billing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- +2 more signals
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Free-trial / $1-trial pitch combined with auto-renew / rebill language.
- Primary scraped category: subscription trap / negative-option billing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- +2 more signals
Subscription trap / negative-option billing
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Do not interact with edgeiqlabs.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Your card will be charged the full price after the trial
Most subscription traps bill the full amount ($49-$149) 14 days after sign-up, and every month thereafter. "Cancel anytime" often means you must call a foreign support line that's deliberately hard to reach.
- If you already signed up — call your bank today
Ask your bank to block future charges from the merchant and dispute any charges already made. Many banks will issue a new card number to prevent recurring billing. Save the confirmation email as evidence.
- OpenReport the billing scheme
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or your national consumer-protection body — subscription traps are specifically illegal in most jurisdictions when the auto-bill terms aren't clearly disclosed.
Trust History
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 flags edgeiqlabs.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — edgeiqlabs.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. edgeiqlabs.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 58 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- edgeiqlabs.com is 1 month old, registered on 4/22/2026 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged edgeiqlabs.com as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. edgeiqlabs.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- edgeiqlabs.com 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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