No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is loart.dev legit or a scam?
Personal game dev portfolio site for Simon Lopez Jaramillo showing no scam indicators and an established domain age.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a personal portfolio for game developer Simon Lopez Jaramillo with project listings, playable prototypes, and links to itch.io and social profiles. The domain is 1426 days old, browser blocklists are clean, and no scam families or malicious detections were triggered. Our research found zero scam reports or complaints across web sources, and the content matches an active developer profile at NORCAT Studio. The IP shows a low abuse score despite some reports, and the visual scan confirms a fully rendered, original portfolio design. These factors together support a safe classification with high confidence.
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
The screenshot shows a fully rendered personal portfolio site with artistic dark-mode design and no scam indicators present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for loart.dev, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain loart.dev is the portfolio site of game developer Simon Lopez Jaramillo (LoArt & Dev), with playable prototypes and dev notes.
- Active itch.io profile at loartdev.itch.io featuring games and projects by the same developer.
- Social profiles include Instagram @loartdev, Facebook loartdev, and BuyMeACoffee/loartdev.
- Simon Lopez Jaramillo listed as game developer at NORCAT Studio (Canada) working on VR simulators and gameplay systems.
- Site includes blog posts, legal pages, media kit, and project listings dated through 2026.
- Extensive web searches for scam/complaint/review/reddit returned zero relevant negative results.
- Domain age of 1426 days aligns with established personal portfolio presence since ~2022.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://loart.dev/
- 2301https://loart.dev/
- 3200https://www.loart.dev/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 loart.dev and not a lookalike like l-oart.dev.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 loart.dev. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- loart.dev passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 79/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. loart.dev presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 52 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- loart.dev is 3.9 years old, registered on 7/1/2022 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. loart.dev is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- loart.dev resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, 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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