No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is house.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. House of Representatives site with clean scans, valid SSL, and zero scam reports found.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page is the canonical homepage for the U.S. House of Representatives, showing legislative schedules, representative lookup, and official navigation. Browser blocklists returned clean and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. No scam families triggered and the domain is explicitly confirmed as the primary official site by congress.gov links. The evidence package found zero scam reports or complaints across searched sources. These factors together confirm high legitimacy with no red flags.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for house.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- house.gov is the official homepage of the United States House of Representatives (119th Congress references)
- Multiple House member sites (e.g., jayapal.house.gov, meuser.house.gov) link to or are subdomains of house.gov and discuss government scam prevention, noting legitimate .gov emails
- congress.gov explicitly links to house.gov as an official House resource
- No search results indicate house.gov itself is reported as a scam, fake, or clone site
- Searches for 'house.gov scam', 'house.gov complaint', 'house.gov reddit' return only unrelated scam discussions or official anti-scam pages on house.gov subdomains
- No evidence of typosquatting or impersonation of other brands; it is the canonical .gov domain
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 (12 2001 66).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://house.gov/
- 2200https://www.house.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 house.gov and not a lookalike like h-ouse.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.
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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 house.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- house.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. house.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 113 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. house.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- house.gov resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies 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.
- 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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