Is marketgrandrapids.com safe?

http://marketgrandrapids.com/

High RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Real-estate site flagged by six antivirus engines as phishing or malware despite long domain history.

marketgrandrapids.com presents itself as the May Group Realtors RE/MAX office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with CTAs for buying, selling, and home-value estimates. Multiple security vendors label the domain malicious, creating a high-risk profile even though the site content appears professional.

Do not enter personal or login information; treat the site as high-risk until the security flags are resolved.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

marketgrandrapids.com presents itself as the May Group Realtors RE/MAX office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with CTAs for buying, selling, and home-value estimates. Multiple security vendors label the domain malicious, creating a high-risk profile even though the site content appears professional.

Security-vendor detections

Six independent antivirus families and six of ninety antivirus engines classify the domain as malicious or suspicious, citing phishing and malware.

Observed site content and commercial CTAs

The page displays the May Group Realtors name, a Grand Rapids address, and prominent links labeled 'Buy', 'Search Homes', and 'Get Your Home's Value'.

Domain history versus current flags

The domain is over 7,500 days old, which is atypical for short-lived phishing domains and raises the possibility of either a compromised legitimate site or a false positive.

Why the score is 35

6 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

8/ 90

detections

Fresh result

8 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
6
Suspicious
2
Total
90
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
CertegoMaliciousphishing
CRDFMaliciousmalicious
FortinetMaliciousmalware
MalwareURLMaliciousmalware
RisingMaliciousmalicious
SeclookupMaliciousmalicious
alphaMountain.aiSuspicioussuspicious
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 90 engine results
  • Certego - phishing - Malicious
  • CRDF - malicious - Malicious
  • Fortinet - malware - Malicious
  • MalwareURL - malware - Malicious
  • Rising - malicious - Malicious
  • Seclookup - malicious - Malicious
  • alphaMountain.ai - suspicious - Suspicious
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - clean - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
marketgrandrapids.com
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

403 Forbidden

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    403 Forbidden

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Grand Rapids, MI Realtors & Real Estate Agents | May Group Realtors

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 90 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

Phishing & Impersonation

Service and business model

Content

Unknown

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 016 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
  2. 02Six antivirus families and six antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or suspicious.
  3. 03Domain age of 7,552 days suggests long-term existence inconsistent with typical short-lived malicious domains.

Web research findings

Independent findings for marketgrandrapids.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.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
1 positive
Positive reviews (1)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • marketgrandrapids.comopen

    "May Group Realtors RE/MAX of Grand Rapids 4362 Cascade Rd SE #208 Grand Rapids, MI 49546"

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainmarketgrandrapids.com
  2. Redirects tomarketgrandrapids.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesgmpg.org · cdnjs.cloudflare.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Jan 10, 2006
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 years old today.

  2. Sep 15, 2026
    Saved security review — Flagged as suspicious

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

marketgrandrapids.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@marketgrandrapids.com
Phone numbers000 2431
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@marketgrandrapids.com).
  • Phone number listed (000 2431).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age21 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredJan 10, 2006
ExpiresJan 10, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresNov 15, 2026 (61d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://marketgrandrapids.com/
  • 2403https://marketgrandrapids.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

malicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result8 of 90 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · Sep 15, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result1 independent finding were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Do not enter personal or login information; treat the site as high-risk until the security flags are resolved.

  2. Treat marketgrandrapids.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

    Open

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 marketgrandrapids.com a scam or a legit website?
marketgrandrapids.com raises serious red flags as a phishing & impersonation — do not enter your login or personal details. 8 of 90 security engines flag it (6 as outright malicious). The domain is 20.7 years old through GoDaddy.com, LLC. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
Is marketgrandrapids.com safe to use?
marketgrandrapids.com has a Safety Score of 35/100 (High Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Avoid login, payment and downloads.
What should I do if I already gave my details to marketgrandrapids.com?
If you've already paid or handed over details on marketgrandrapids.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on marketgrandrapids.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
Can I get my money back from marketgrandrapids.com?
Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
Did marketgrandrapids.com steal my password or personal information?
If you entered anything on marketgrandrapids.com, assume it was captured. Phishing pages exist purely to harvest what you type — usernames, passwords, card numbers, or one-time codes. Change the password immediately on the real site and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and if you entered card or banking details, contact your bank about the risk of fraud. Also be alert for follow-up "security" calls or emails that try to exploit the same information.
How do I report marketgrandrapids.com?
You can report marketgrandrapids.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
Why does marketgrandrapids.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
Has marketgrandrapids.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 8 of 90 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged marketgrandrapids.com, 6 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is marketgrandrapids.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — marketgrandrapids.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the marketgrandrapids.com domain?
marketgrandrapids.com is 20.7 years old, registered on January 10, 2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does marketgrandrapids.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — marketgrandrapids.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 61 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
How often is the marketgrandrapids.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 15, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about marketgrandrapids.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
35/100
High Risk

Real-estate site flagged by six antivirus engines as phishing or malware despite long domain history.

Saved capturemarketgrandrapids.comCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

marketgrandrapids.com presents itself as the May Group Realtors RE/MAX office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with CTAs for buying, selling, and home-value estimates. Multiple security vendors label the domain malicious, creating a high-risk profile even though the site content appears professional.

Recommended actionDo not enter personal or login information; treat the site as high-risk until the security flags are resolved.
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09 · Community

Community

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