Is heart.org legit or a scam?
Official American Heart Association nonprofit site with 31-year domain history, 4/4 charity rating, and clean security scan.
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.
MT Intelligence
heart.org belongs to the American Heart Association, a well-established 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with tax-exempt status since 1949 and EIN 13-5613797. The domain has been registered for 11,479 days (over 31 years), and our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 92 engines. Independent charity evaluators give the organization a 4/4 star rating on Charity Navigator and confirm it meets BBB Wise Giving Alliance standards. The site maintains a dedicated fraud-warning page alerting users to third-party scams that impersonate the AHA — a strong indicator of a legitimate organization actively protecting its reputation. No complaints or scam reports accuse heart.org itself of fraudulent activity; search results instead return the AHA's own warnings about unauthorized impersonators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for heart.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- heart.org is the official website of the American Heart Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1924 with headquarters in Dallas, TX (EIN 13-5613797).
- The organization has a 4/4 star rating on Charity Navigator and meets standards with BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
- AHA maintains a dedicated fraud warning page detailing common scams including fake event registration sites, phishing emails, unauthorized CPR certification sellers, and fake solicitations using the AHA name.
- AHA explicitly warns users not to engage with unauthorized sites claiming to offer registration/housing for Scientific Sessions or instant CPR cards, directing reports to reportfraud@heart.org.
- No direct scam reports or complaints were found accusing heart.org itself of fraud; searches primarily return AHA's own warnings about impersonators.
- The site has been active for over 31 years (domain age 11479 days) and is referenced across official AHA subdomains (ahajournals.org, shopheart.org, shopcpr.heart.org).
- Some criticism exists on Reddit regarding AHA's dietary guidelines or fundraising practices, but no evidence of malicious activity on the heart.org domain.
- heart.orgopen
"The American Heart Association has been alerted to fraudulent websites posing as official Scientific Sessions registration, housing, exhibit and meeting space websites. Please note that these websites are scams"
- heart.orgopen
"If you suspect telephone solicitations, emails or other communications are making fraudulent claims related to the American Heart Association or American Stroke Association, please contact us right away at 1-800-242-8721 or reportfraud@hear"
- showmecpr.comopen
"Any claims that training products or materials are “AHA Certified,” “AHA Approved,” “AHA Compliant” or “created by AHA certified” people, where the “AHA” means the American Heart Association, are not true and are usually fake website with f"
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 13-5613797, tax-exempt since 1949, headquartered in Dallas, TX. Registered as New York non-profit corporation.
Our research confirmed that heart.org is the official website of the American Heart Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1924 and headquartered in Dallas, TX (EIN 13-5613797). Charity Navigator assigns a 4/4 star rating, and BBB Wise Giving Alliance confirms the organization meets accountability standards. The AHA maintains a dedicated fraud-warning page documenting common scams that impersonate the organization, including fake event registration sites, phishing emails, and unauthorized CPR certification sellers. No direct complaints or scam reports accuse heart.org itself of fraud; instead, search results return the AHA's own warnings about third-party impersonators.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (1-800-242-8721).
- Links to 14 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://heart.org/
- 2301https://heart.org/
- 3200https://www.heart.org/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 heart.org and not a lookalike like h-eart.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 heart.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- heart.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. heart.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 48 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- heart.org is 31.4 years old, registered on 1/12/1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 heart.org as clean.
- No. heart.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- heart.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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.
- Yes. heart.org sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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