Warning signs detected
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is epc.co.kr legit or a scam?
Official website of Hanmi Electronics, a 1995 South Korean industrial controls manufacturer with clean reputation and no scam indicators.
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
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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
The page is a legacy splash screen for HANMI Electronics that appears to be non-functional or abandoned, showing no modern web features or content.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsPage appears parked or non-functional
Extremely dated design with low-resolution graphics and 2005 copyright date
Minimalist splash page with only language selection links
Lack of modern navigation, contact information, or functional content
Intelligence
The page belongs to (주)한미전자제어, a registered South Korean company operating since May 1995. Our antivirus network flagged two engines, but browser blocklists remain clean and the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports. Business registration records match the domain and list active manufacturing operations with verifiable addresses and contact numbers. The visual analysis shows a dated splash page with a 2005 copyright notice, consistent with a low-profile B2B supplier that has not modernized its site. No scam families, phishing forms, or complaints appear in our research. The combination of long-established registration, matching company records, and absence of negative signals supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for epc.co.kr, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain epc.co.kr is the official website of (주)한미전자제어 (Hanmi Electronics Co., Ltd.), a South Korean company founded in 1995 specializing in measurement instruments, control devices, tension controllers (e.g., HM-HTC142), and EPC sensors.
- Company contact details consistently listed as Tel: 032-328-2715, Fax: 032-328-2713, Mobile: 010-6698-2715, Email: epc@epc.co.kr, with addresses in Bucheon Techno Park (삼작로 22) and Gimpo.
- Copyright notice on site reads "Copyright (c) HANMI Electronics Co., Ltd. 2005. All right reserved." Site appears minimal or dated, with product PDFs and basic company pages.
- Business listings on Saramin, CookieDeal, Daara, Komachine, and ReportWorld confirm active status, manufacturing focus, and representative names (e.g., Park Bong-ju in some records).
- No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or Korean complaint forums were found in searches.
- No association with phishing, fake airdrops, job scams, or any detected scam families; appears to be a low-profile B2B industrial supplier.
Established May 1995 as (주)한미전자제어 (Hanmi Electronics Co., Ltd.), small/medium enterprise in industrial process control equipment manufacturing. Registered addresses include Gyeonggi-do areas (Bucheon and Gimpo). Revenue reported around 350 million KRW.
Our research found no scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions for epc.co.kr on consumer forums, review platforms, or Korean complaint sites. Business directories confirm the domain belongs to an active South Korean manufacturer established in 1995 with listed contact details and physical addresses. No association with phishing, malware distribution, or fraudulent activity appears in the results.
Threat Detection
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Trust History
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat epc.co.kr as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
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Final Verdict
This is the official site for a South Korean industrial equipment manufacturer founded in 1995. The domain shows no scam reports, clean blocklist status, and business registration records confirm an active company. No payment or login forms are present.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- epc.co.kr looks like a likely scam site — avoid interacting with it. 2 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — epc.co.kr scores 50/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on epc.co.kr, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on epc.co.kr and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report epc.co.kr through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 2 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged epc.co.kr, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — epc.co.kr is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — epc.co.kr presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA, valid for another 84 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- epc.co.kr resolves to an IP operated by SMILESERV in KR (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 10, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about epc.co.kr has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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