No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ercule.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate organic growth agency with a 7-year-old domain, US business registration, and clean security scans.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as an organic growth agency offering SEO, GEO, and content services. Its domain is over seven years old with valid SSL and no blocklist hits. Our research located real company details including a Portland-based founder and profiles on major business directories. No scam reports, complaints, or malicious indicators appeared in any checks. The page itself is a standard professional marketing site with no forms or deceptive elements.
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 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
The screenshot shows a clean, professional marketing site for an organic growth agency with no scam indicators or suspicious elements visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as OpenAI / ChatGPT, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official OpenAI / ChatGPT property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ercule.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ercule.com (also referenced as ercule.co) belongs to ércule, described as an organic growth agency tying GEO, SEO, content production, and analytics.
- Company LinkedIn and Prospeo profiles list headquarters in Portland, Oregon, US; 1-10 employees; founder Justin Dunham; ex-operators from GitHub, MongoDB, AWS, Atlassian.
- Crunchbase profile exists: provides content analytics app and agency services for B2B companies' organic growth.
- Active website (ercule.com) with blog posts dated 2025 on topics like content velocity, content engineering, monitoring brand mentions in ChatGPT.
- No scam reports, complaints, Reddit discussions, Trustpilot/BBB mentions, or fraud references found in targeted searches.
- Domain age listed as 2565 days; no evidence of typosquatting famous brands.
Small agency (1-10 employees) based in Portland, Oregon; founder Justin Dunham (Wharton MBA); profiles on LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Prospeo
Our research located a small US-based agency in Portland, Oregon with founder Justin Dunham and profiles on LinkedIn and Crunchbase. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found in any searched sources.
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.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://ercule.com/
- 2200https://www.ercule.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 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.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
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.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
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 ercule.com and not a lookalike like e-rcule.com.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 ercule.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ercule.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ercule.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ercule.com is 7.0 years old, registered on 5/20/2019 through Porkbun LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. ercule.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ercule.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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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