No threats detected
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Is franksdelinj.com legit or a scam?
Frank's Deli & Restaurant site for a 1960-established Asbury Park deli with 11-year-old domain and clean security record.
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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a 403 Forbidden error
Intelligence
The domain franksdelinj.com was registered in February 2015 and has remained active for over eleven years. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page content matches the physical restaurant at 1406 Main Street, including the correct phone number and menu items. Independent review sites show hundreds of positive customer reviews on TripAdvisor and Yelp with no scam reports found. The visual scan encountered a 403 error, but this does not affect the legitimacy signals from the domain age, clean scans, and consistent business details.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for franksdelinj.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain franksdelinj.com registered 2015-02-19 (age ~11.4 years as of 2026); active website for Frank's Deli & Restaurant.
- Physical location: 1406 Main St, Asbury Park, NJ 07712; phone (732) 775-6682; open since May 1, 1960 (family-owned by Maggio family).
- Featured on Anthony Bourdain's New Jersey food trail; mentioned in multiple reviews and media for pork roll egg & cheese sandwiches and classic deli fare.
- TripAdvisor: 4.6/5 from 143 reviews, ranked #5-#6 in Asbury Park restaurants.
- Yelp: 4.3/5 from 282 reviews; listed on Yelp, Google Maps, Instagram (@franksdeliap with 4k+ followers).
- No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions found across searches including Reddit, ScamAdviser, news sites.
- Site includes customer testimonials (e.g., Jack C., Laila D., Kevin M.) and menu links; Facebook page active with promotions as of 2026.
- TripAdvisoropen
"#5 of 118 Restaurants in Asbury Park. 143 reviews. Excellent. 97; Very Good. 38; Average."
- Yelpopen
"Frank's Deli & Restaurant. 4.3 (282 reviews). 1406 Main St, Asbury Park, NJ 07712."
- Reddit (r/newjersey)open
"Not a bar, but if you are interested in a true Jersey deli, try Franks on Main Street. Food and prices are fantastic."
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, franksdelinj.com is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
Our research located four positive reviews across TripAdvisor, Yelp, Reddit, and independent review aggregators. TripAdvisor shows 143 reviews with a 4.6 rating. Yelp lists 282 reviews averaging 4.3 stars. A Reddit thread recommends the deli for authentic Jersey food. No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions were found in any searched sources.
Domain Timeline
- Feb 19, 2015Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
franksdelinj.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (732-775-6682).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 franksdelinj.com and not a lookalike like f-ranksdelinj.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Final Verdict
This is the website for Frank's Deli & Restaurant, a real deli in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The domain is over 11 years old with clean security scans and multiple positive reviews on major platforms. No payment or login forms are present.
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 franksdelinj.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- franksdelinj.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. franksdelinj.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 49 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- franksdelinj.com is 11.4 years old, registered on 2/19/2015 through Wild West Domains, LLC. 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 franksdelinj.com as clean.
- No. franksdelinj.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- franksdelinj.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (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 July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around franksdelinj.com 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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