Phishing site — do not log in
4 of 91 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page looks designed to steal credentials. Don't log in — and if you already did, change the password anywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication.
Is hawksteadfinance.com legit or a scam?
Fake online bank site flagged malicious by CRDF, Fortinet, G-Data, Netcraft and our sandbox with perfect danger score.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site pretends to be Hawkstead Finance, a digital bank offering accounts, money transfers, and currency tools. Multiple security engines like CRDF, Fortinet, G-Data, and Netcraft detect it as malicious, phishing, or malware, backed by our sandbox's 100/100 danger score. It uses generic banking templates and loads common CDNs, but lacks real contact details like email. The domain is under a year old with minimal traffic data, fitting scam patterns. Clean browser blocklists offer no reassurance against these strong detections.
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 screenshot shows a loading spinner with minimal content, indicating the page is not fully functional.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete (slow render) — page HTML loaded normally, ignoring parked-domain heuristic.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hawksteadfinance.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No external scam or trust mentions in our checks.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Phone number listed (+1 (888) 336-1597).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
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.
- URLscan classified the page with phishing tags.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
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.
- URLscan classified the page with phishing tags.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with hawksteadfinance.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.
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 flags hawksteadfinance.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hawksteadfinance.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hawksteadfinance.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hawksteadfinance.com is 9 months old, registered on 7/2/2025 through DreamHost, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 6 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hawksteadfinance.com as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hawksteadfinance.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hawksteadfinance.com resolves to an IP operated by SpectraIP B.V. in NL (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.
Final Verdict
This is a fake digital banking site mimicking a legitimate financial service. Our malware engines and sandbox flag it as malicious and phishing due to suspicious code and behavior. Avoid it entirely and do not enter any personal or financial information.
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