No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ftc.gov legit or a scam?
Official FTC.gov site with 28-year domain history, clean scans, and no scam indicators or reports found.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page is the official Federal Trade Commission website, matching the expected title and government branding. Strongest signal is the domain age of over 28 years combined with zero detections from our antivirus network and blocklists. Supporting signals include a clean hosting IP with no abuse reports, valid SSL, and explicit confirmation in our research that this is the real ftc.gov listed on usa.gov. The site itself warns users about scammers impersonating the FTC, which further aligns with legitimate government behavior. No clone indicators, no malicious content, and no complaints were located.
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
This is the fully rendered official FTC.gov site with standard U.S. government branding and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ftc.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), listed on usa.gov and Wikipedia
- Domain age 10465 days (~28.6 years); page title confirms 'Federal Trade Commission | Protecting America’s Consumers'
- Hosts official scam reporting at ReportFraud.ftc.gov and consumer advice at consumer.ftc.gov
- Site repeatedly warns that 'Scammers are impersonating the FTC' and 'The FTC will never threaten you [or] demand money'
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found against ftc.gov itself in searches; Reddit mentions are about using the site or unrelated issues
- Confirmed as authentic government site with no clone/typosquat indicators
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (8.78027 21.8905).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ftc.gov/
- 2200https://www.ftc.gov/cross-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 ftc.gov and not a lookalike like f-tc.gov.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 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 ftc.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ftc.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ftc.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 256 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ftc.gov is 28.7 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. 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 ftc.gov as clean.
- No. ftc.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ftc.gov resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. 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.
- 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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