Is jcathleticsgolftournament.com legit or a scam?
Brand-new Google clone posing as a JC Athletics golf tournament to solicit donations and registrations from unsuspecting donors.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 1 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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MT Intelligence
The domain was registered only 1 day ago and our network fingerprint confirms it is a clone of google.com. The page mimics a legitimate charity golf tournament but contains multiple red flags: no business registration found anywhere, no verifiable school or athletics program associated with it, and zero web presence or mentions outside this single page. Contact details use a free Gmail address rather than a business domain, and the generic tournament description matches known patterns of fake event-registration phishing sites. Our research found no scam reports yet, but the combination of brand impersonation, brand-new registration, missing business verification, and the common golf-tournament donation-scam pattern creates a high-confidence phishing assessment.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for jcathleticsgolftournament.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered 1 day ago, consistent with short-lived scam or phishing sites
- No mentions of jcathleticsgolftournament.com anywhere on the web outside the scanned page itself
- No official JC Athletics program or school appears to be associated with or promoting this specific tournament
- Searches for the exact domain and event name return zero relevant results, reviews, registrations, or news
- Generic page title and description ('Join us at JC Athletics Golf Tournament tournament') match patterns of fake charity/sponsorship event sites
- Common scam pattern in golf tournaments involves fake events soliciting sponsorships, registrations, or donations (multiple unrelated reports of similar golf tournament frauds found)
- No business entity, contact details, location, or verifiable organizer information located
Page explicitly flagged as Google impersonation/clone attempt; new domain with generic tournament title and description commonly used in fake event/registration phishing pages
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for jcathleticsgolftournament.com and found zero scam reports, complaints, or positive reviews. No business registration, company details, or organizer information was located in public records. No official JC Athletics program or school appears to be associated with or promoting this tournament. The domain and event name return zero relevant results, reviews, or news outside the scanned page itself. The generic page title and description match patterns of fake charity and event-registration phishing pages. Common scam patterns in golf tournaments involve fake events soliciting sponsorships, registrations, or donations — and this site exhibits all the hallmarks of that fraud type.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (5419127010).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://jcathleticsgolftournament.com/
- 2200https://jcathleticsgolftournament.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with jcathleticsgolftournament.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags jcathleticsgolftournament.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — jcathleticsgolftournament.com scored 18/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. jcathleticsgolftournament.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 88 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- jcathleticsgolftournament.com is 1 day old, registered on 6/10/2026 through Key-Systems GmbH. 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 jcathleticsgolftournament.com as clean.
- No. jcathleticsgolftournament.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- jcathleticsgolftournament.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 11, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around jcathleticsgolftournament.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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