Warning signs detected
Established 25-year-old forum site blocked by protection service and carrying dozens of user complaints about doxxing and toxicity. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is lipstickalley.com legit or a scam?
Established 25-year-old forum site blocked by protection service and carrying dozens of user complaints about doxxing and toxicity.
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
MT Intelligence
The domain has existed since 1999 and is tied to an active Michigan company with a registered trademark for the forum service. Our page analyzer encountered a standard security block page instead of forum content. Independent review sites show zero positive reviews and 140 complaints focused on alleged information theft and cyberbullying by users. No malware or phishing detections appeared in our antivirus network or blocklist feeds. The combination of an old legitimate domain with persistent user-safety complaints on review platforms points to moderate risk for visitors.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is a standard security block page from a protection service (likely Cloudflare) denying access to lipstickalley.com.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for lipstickalley.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain lipstickalley.com is an active online forum focused on African American topics including news, celebrity gossip, fashion, and hair care.
- Owned and operated by Verve Hosting, Inc., a Michigan company (principal place Pontiac, MI); trademark registered since 2012 (filed 2011).
- Subject of 2011 New York Supreme Court case Hall v. lipstickalley.com regarding jurisdiction and operation.
- Trustpilot lists ~40 reviews; SmartCustomer lists 101 reviews with overall low ratings (e.g., 1.2/5).
- Multiple user reviews on review sites allege doxxing, information theft, toxicity, and cyberbullying on the forum.
- Domain age listed as 9379 days (~25+ years); forum threads frequently discuss scams but site itself is not reported as a phishing or financial scam domain.
- No evidence of being a typosquat or clone of major brands like Roblox, PayPal, etc.
- Trustpilotopen
"They steal your information and attempt to dox you."
- Trustpilotopen
"The admin is clearly stealing info and selling it."
- SmartCustomeropen
"There is a user registered on this site *******@honeybunzz10 who has made up lies about random people she does not know to stalk people here in the UK"
Trademark LIPSTICK ALLEY (Reg. No. 4374354) owned by Verve Hosting, Inc., Michigan corporation; Section 8 & 15 accepted 2018. Site described as internet message board/forum in 2011 NY court case Hall v. lipstickalley.com.
Our research located three scam-style reports on independent review aggregator and SmartCustomer alleging doxxing and data theft by site users or admins. Review aggregators show 140 total complaints and low overall ratings with no positive feedback recorded. The domain itself is confirmed as a long-running forum rather than a phishing or shopping scam operation.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat lipstickalley.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 marked lipstickalley.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- lipstickalley.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. lipstickalley.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 100 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- lipstickalley.com is 25.7 years old, registered on 9/29/2000 through eNom, LLC. 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 lipstickalley.com as clean.
- No. lipstickalley.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- lipstickalley.com 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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