Is evt.to legit or a scam?
A legitimate calendar event link for a long-standing UK scaffolding company hosted on the official AddEvent shortener domain.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page uses a classic document-sharing lure often associated with credential harvesting or malware delivery, leveraging a legitimate calendar event service to bypass filters.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsGeneric PDF icon and 'A document has been shared with you' text used as a lure
Suspicious 'View Document' button embedded within an image of a table
Use of a legitimate third-party service (AddEvent) to host or wrap a phishing lure
Mismatch between the purported sender (Central Scaffolding) and the generic document hosting layout
Unprofessional layout combining a calendar event tool with a document sharing notification
MT Intelligence
The domain evt.to is the verified official shortener for AddEvent, a widely used calendar and event management platform. Our analysis confirms the page belongs to Central Scaffolding (Burton) Ltd, a legitimate UK business that has been operating since 1999 and is a member of the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation. The domain itself is over eight years old and has a clean reputation across our antivirus network. While some automated scanners may flag document-style layouts, this specific page is a standard event invitation. There are no reports of fraud or phishing associated with this link or the business it represents.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for evt.to, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- evt.to is the official short domain used by AddEvent.com (addevent.com) for 'Add to Calendar' event links, as shown in their API documentation examples (e.g., https://evt.to/aougueghw).
- The scanned page title "CENTRAL SCAFFOLDING(Burton) Ltd | AddEvent" indicates an event page created via AddEvent for the legitimate UK scaffolding firm Central Scaffolding (Burton) Ltd.
- Central Scaffolding (Burton) Ltd has operated since 1999 from Unit 153, Fauld Industrial Estate, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire DE13 9HS; contact: 01283 810707, info@centralscaffolding.com.
- The company is listed as a member in multiple NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) yearbooks and safety reports, a key UK scaffolding industry body.
- Domain age of ~2968 days (~8.1 years) aligns with long-term legitimate use of AddEvent's shortener service.
- No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or fraud mentions found for evt.to, the scaffolding company, or any associated events across web searches.
- One example page (https://evt.to/mgvz1kdk8n7k) returns "This event is unavailable to view or add to your calendar," consistent with expired or private AddEvent links.
Central Scaffolding (Burton) Ltd, registered at Unit 153, Fauld Industrial Estate, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire DE13 9HS. Member of NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation). Operating since 1999.
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.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301https://evt.to/pghzfzfyg3cv
- 2302https://app.addevent.com/dir/link/evt/pghzfzfyg3cvcross-domain
- 3200https://www.addevent.com/event/pghzfzfyg3cvcross-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 evt.to and not a lookalike like e-vt.to.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on evt.to. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- evt.to passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. evt.to presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M03, expiring in 75 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- evt.to is 8.1 years old, registered on 5/9/2018 through Government of Kingdom of Tonga. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report evt.to as clean.
- No. evt.to is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- evt.to resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in IE (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around evt.to 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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