No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is justice.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. Department of Justice website with 28-year domain history and zero malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the official homepage of the U.S. Department of Justice with matching title, meta description, and government content. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and the hosting IP shows no abuse reports. The domain is over 28 years old and registered through get.gov, which aligns with legitimate federal sites. No scam families were triggered and external links point only to other official government domains. The evidence package confirms it is listed as the real DOJ site on usa.gov and Wikipedia with no scam reports found.
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 justice.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) per usa.gov and Wikipedia
- Domain age: 10243 days (~28 years)
- No scam reports or complaints identifying justice.gov itself as fraudulent
- Site hosts official fraud reporting tools and warnings about impersonators/scammers claiming to be DOJ
- Confirmed legitimate on multiple government and reference sites; no clone or typosquat indicators
- Trustpilotopen
"United States Department of Justice Reviews 8 - 8 people have already reviewed United States Department of Justice . Read about their experiences and share your own!"
Our research found the site listed as the official United States Department of Justice on usa.gov and Wikipedia. No scam reports or complaints were identified. One positive review appears on an independent review aggregator.
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 (202-514-2000).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://justice.gov/
- 2200https://www.justice.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 justice.gov and not a lookalike like j-ustice.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 justice.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- justice.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. justice.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- justice.gov is 28.1 years old, registered on 5/14/1998 through get.gov. 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 justice.gov as clean.
- No. justice.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- justice.gov 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.
- 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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