Is lacartes.com safe?
http://lacartes.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture · not available: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Lacartes is a long-running UK business directory whose own pages could not be reviewed and whose support channels users describe as unreachable.
Lacartes presents itself as a UK-based directory where businesses can create free profiles, list products and services, and post job vacancies. The domain is old and the connection is encrypted, and no malware or phishing warning was returned by the browser-safety check. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read during this review, so its current claims and terms were never verified. Independent research surfaced two user complaints describing a business listed without consent with wrong contact details and no way to reach the operator, and a listing update that produced a server error while the contact form was inoperable. Those are real, specific operator-responsiveness problems rather than a technical threat, which places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "I didn't want our business on the cartes and they have the wrong phone number and the wrong address. You can't contact them to correct it so it seems like a…"-48 pts
- MinorThe site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because no HTTP response was received, so its current claims and terms were never reviewed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 7732 days old, indicating a long-standing registration rather than a newly created address.
- SupportsA press release describes Lacartes as a UK-based platform that revamped its business page design and remained free to use.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser-safety check returned no threat warning for the site.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 100 to 52 and split those 48 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Lacartes presents itself as a UK-based directory where businesses can create free profiles, list products and services, and post job vacancies. The domain is old and the connection is encrypted, and no malware or phishing warning was returned by the browser-safety check. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read during this review, so its current claims and terms were never verified. Independent research surfaced two user complaints describing a business listed without consent with wrong contact details and no way to reach the operator, and a listing update that produced a server error while the contact form was inoperable. Those are real, specific operator-responsiveness problems rather than a technical threat, which places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
A free business directory with an unreadable front end
A press release describes Lacartes as a UK-based platform that rolled out a revamped business page design and remained free to use, which matches the directory model of letting businesses publish profiles, products, services and job vacancies.
During this review the site itself did not respond: the page content could not be read, so the current homepage, contact details, About text and any policies were never inspected. That means the operator's present-day claims, ownership and terms are unverified, and the assessment rests on the domain record, the connection check and outside research.
Complaints describe listings that cannot be corrected or removed
One reviewer states their business was placed on the site with the wrong phone number and the wrong address, and that there is no way to contact the operator to correct it, describing the company as seeming like a sham.
A second reviewer reports that attempting to update a business listing produced a division-by-zero warning in a server-side file, and that the contact form was inoperable, leaving no route to support.
These are two independent complaint records about the same practical problem: a directory that publishes business information but gives the affected business no working way to correct or remove it. That is an operator and customer-care failure, not evidence of malware, credential theft or payment fraud.
Clean technical checks do not offset the support gap
The browser-safety check returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no evidence of malware, phishing or an insecure connection at the time of review.
The registrable domain is 7732 days old, which indicates a long-standing registration rather than a throwaway address, and is a genuine point in the site's favour.
Those positives do not resolve the operator-side problem, and because the site's own pages could not be read, its current practices, ownership and policies remain unverified. The score therefore reflects a site that is technically quiet but operationally unresponsive, rather than one that is demonstrably safe.
Why the score is 52
One customer complaint on a public review site: "I didn't want our business on the cartes and they have the wrong phone number and the wrong address. You can't contact them to correct it so it seems like a…". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from August 29, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Restaurants/Food
- BitDefendereducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerreference materials
- Googleshopping
- Sophosgeneral business
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
2 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01A press release describes Lacartes as a UK-based platform that revamped its business page design and remained free to use.
- 02One customer complaint on a public review site: "I didn't want our business on the cartes and they have the wrong phone number and the wrong address. You can't contact them to correct it so it seems like a…"
- 03The registrable domain is 7732 days old, indicating a long-standing registration rather than a newly created address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for lacartes.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Trustpilotopen
"I didn't want our business on the cartes and they have the wrong phone number and the wrong address. You can't contact them to correct it so it seems like a sham of a company completely"
- Trustpilotopen
"Website produces error when trying to update business listing: Warning: Division by zero in /home/lacartes/public_html/module/business/my_business_va8.php on line 321 No way to contact support as contact form is inoperable."
- PRLogopen
"UK based Lacartes.com rolled out its revamped business page design this month"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainlacartes.com
- Redirects tolacartes.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Aug 18, 2005Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for lacartes.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://lacartes.com/
- 2blockedhttps://lacartes.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidenceunavailable
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One customer complaint on a public review site: "I didn't want our business on the cartes and they have the wrong phone number and the wrong address. You can't contact them to correct it so it seems like a…" · The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read because no HTTP response was received, so its current claims and terms were never reviewed.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Aug 29, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | The saved page capture was not reliable enough to use | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Aug 29, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- ResultThe saved page capture was not reliable enough to use
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is lacartes.com a scam or is it safe?
Is lacartes.com safe to use?
Has lacartes.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is lacartes.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does lacartes.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Lacartes is a long-running UK business directory whose own pages could not be reviewed and whose support channels users describe as unreachable.
The written conclusion remains part of the saved report.
Lacartes presents itself as a UK-based directory where businesses can create free profiles, list products and services, and post job vacancies. The domain is old and the connection is encrypted, and no malware or phishing warning was returned by the browser-safety check. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be read during this review, so its current claims and terms were never verified. Independent research surfaced two user complaints describing a business listed without consent with wrong contact details and no way to reach the operator, and a listing update that produced a server error while the contact form was inoperable. Those are real, specific operator-responsiveness problems rather than a technical threat, which places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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