Is global-optouts.com safe?
http://global-optouts.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
global-optouts.com is a flagged phishing-style opt-out form that collects phone numbers
The site offers a single form promising to stop unwanted text messages, but asks for your phone number and the web address from the message. Eight security engines mark the domain malicious and two more suspicious, and independent scam-checking services rate it as phishing. The site names no operator and lists no contact details, so the score is in the Dangerous band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan10 antivirus engines flagged this URLBitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, G-DataAt a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
5 months old
Registered Jun 8, 2026Expires Jun 8, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 3, 2027 (53d)Hosting
United States (US)
Webflow, IncPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
10/59
10 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 10, 2026
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 15/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 6 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive7 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- ModerateThe only function is a form collecting the visitor's phone number and the website from a received message.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Phishing based on multiple risk signals, including 4 blacklist detections, a very young domain (5 months), and no established public…"
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The algorithm detected high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming, ... . tags above. Long story short, we recommend staying away from this website."
- MinorNo operator or direct contact email is shown on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site offers a single form promising to stop unwanted text messages, but asks for your phone number and the web address from the message. Eight security engines mark the domain malicious and two more suspicious, and independent scam-checking services rate it as phishing. The site names no operator and lists no contact details, so the score is in the Dangerous band.
What security vendors and scam checkers say
Our review found 8 malicious and 2 suspicious detections among 93 engines, and seven independent antivirus families reported an adverse result, including BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao and CRDF.
Independent scam-checking services also reject the site. One classifies it as phishing, citing four blacklist detections, a very young domain and no established user-review history. Another flags high-risk activity linked to phishing and spam and advises staying away. A third lists it as possible malware.
The browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid, but these checks only show that the connection is encrypted and that Google has not flagged it. They do not outweigh the vendor detections. The domain is about 155 days old.
Who is behind the site and what it collects
The captured page names no operator and shows no direct contact email, so there is nobody to hold accountable for what happens to submitted data.
The form asks for the phone number the message came from, the website address in the message, and your own phone number. It states that opting out requires providing your phone number. The only action available is submitting that data.
Why the score is 15
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
10/ 93
detectionsFresh result
10 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 8
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
- Malicious8
- Suspicious2
- Clean49
- Undetected34
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| GridinsoftMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| FortinetSuspicious | spam |
All 93 engine results
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- CyRadar - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- Fortinet - spam - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
- BitDefendermisc
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual warning signs were identified
Global-OptOuts.com Phone Number The Message Came From: Website URL In The Message: Your Phone Number: If you want to continue receiving messages, no action is required. If you wish to opt-out, you MUST provide your phone number. Submit
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Global-OptOuts.com
- 02
Phone Number The Message Came From: Website URL In The Message: Your Phone Number: If you want to continue receiving messages, no action is required. If you wish to opt-out, you MUST provide your phone number. Submit
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 7
Where the page went
- First loadglobal-optouts.comSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Global Optouts
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Global Optouts
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor uses the form
A visitor who wants to stop unwanted texts is told to enter their phone number, the sending number and the website from the message. That hands a working phone number to an unidentified party on a domain flagged as phishing.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The site gives no information on how the submitted numbers are used, and the flagged status means the real purpose is likely data harvesting rather than a genuine opt-out service.
Do not enter your phone number or any message details on this site. To stop unwanted texts, reply STOP to the sender or use your mobile carrier's spam reporting tool.
Web research findings
Independent findings for global-optouts.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Scam Detectoropen
"The algorithm detected high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming, ... . tags above. Long story short, we recommend staying away from this website."
- Gridinsoftopen
"This site is classified as Phishing based on multiple risk signals, including 4 blacklist detections, a very young domain (5 months), and no established public user-review history."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainglobal-optouts.com
- Redirects towww.global-optouts.com
- Hosted byWebflow, Inc
- Referencescdn.prod.website-files.com · fonts.googleapis.comand 4 more
Domain Timeline
- Jun 8, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
global-optouts.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 10, 2026: 42% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 10, 2026: 41% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for www.global-optouts.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://global-optouts.com/
- 2301https://global-optouts.com/
- 3200https://www.global-optouts.com/
Server Reputation
Sites linked to this one
- Lands on the same page2 sites with a report: 1 Dangerous · 1 High Risk
2 linked sites with a report. Each dot takes that site's own rating; a shared detail is a lead, not proof.
Other sites we have reports for that share something checkable with this one. A shared detail is a lead to compare, not proof that the sites have the same owner or the same risk; each keeps its own rating.
Lands on the same page
They redirect to the same page (global-optouts.com) when scanned.
- unifintxt.comDangerous
- gop-way.coHigh Risk
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Analytics & tracking2
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts4
- ajax.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.netin pagecontacted
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin pagecontacted
Platform & social1
- cdn.prod.website-files.comin pagecontacted
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 10 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result10 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is global-optouts.com a scam or a legit website?
Is global-optouts.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on global-optouts.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from global-optouts.com?
Did global-optouts.com steal my password or personal information?
How do I report global-optouts.com?
global-optouts.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has global-optouts.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is global-optouts.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the global-optouts.com domain?
Where is global-optouts.com hosted?
How often is the global-optouts.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
global-optouts.com is a flagged phishing-style opt-out form that collects phone numbers
The site offers a single form promising to stop unwanted text messages, but asks for your phone number and the web address from the message. Eight security engines mark the domain malicious and two more suspicious, and independent scam-checking services rate it as phishing. The site names no operator and lists no contact details, so the score is in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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