DANGEROUS

Critical risk detected

10 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (10 outright malicious). Our security review flagged this site as high-risk. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.

Security Review

Is marshall.school.nz legit or a scam?

Yes — this is almost certainly a scam.

Do this now:close this page. Don't enter passwords or card details, and don't download anything.

Official site for Marshall Laing Primary School in Auckland with 10 of 92 engines flagging it as phishing despite government registration and clean blocklists.

Cross-checked against 7 independent sources 1 raised a concern
marshall.school.nzScanned 2h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
DANGEROUS
Score breakdown
Heuristics 0·MT 85
Screenshot of marshall.school.nzSee the live page ↓
Category tags
educationHow sure we are: High
Technical red flags (1)
10 of 92 engines flagged
Positive signals (3)
Not on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation

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.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
10/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of marshall.school.nz
LIVE RENDER
marshall.school.nz

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page displays the correct title and description for Marshall Laing Primary School and loads content from Wix infrastructure. Six named engines including BitDefender, CyRadar, Emsisoft and Fortinet flagged the page as phishing or malicious while the remaining 82 engines and all browser blocklists returned clean. The domain carries a valid SSL certificate from Google Trust Services and the hosting IP shows only a moderate abuse score. Our research confirms the school is registered as Institution No. 1362 with the New Zealand Ministry of Education and receives positive community feedback from the Education Review Office. No scam reports or complaints appear in the evidence package. The combination of official registration, matching contact details, and absence of scam indicators outweighs the partial engine flags.
Risk Factors
3
  • Ten of 92 antivirus engines flagged the page as phishing or malicious.
  • Hosting IP carries eight abuse reports and a moderate abuse score of 18 out of 100.
  • No contact email or postal address appears on the scanned page content.
Positive Signals
5
  • Page title and description match the official Marshall Laing Primary School branding.
  • School is registered as Institution No. 1362 with the New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  • Education Review Office provides positive community feedback for the school.
  • Valid SSL certificate from Google Trust Services with no browser blocklist hits.
  • Zero scam reports or complaints found in the evidence package.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page presents itself as the official website for Marshall Laing Primary School in Auckland. The title and meta description match the school's known branding and welcome message. The site includes legitimate educational content such as enrolment information and annual reports. No login forms, countdown timers, or data-harvesting elements were detected.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on IP 185.230.63.107 with an abuse score of 18 out of 100 and eight prior abuse reports. It uses a valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services with 73 days remaining. Content loads from static.wixstatic.com and static.parastorage.com, indicating a Wix-hosted platform. Two cross-domain redirects occurred during the scan.

Domain History

WHOIS data was unavailable for this domain. The .school.nz extension is reserved for verified New Zealand educational institutions, which aligns with the official registration found in government records.

Web Reputation

Ten of 92 engines flagged the page, with BitDefender, CyRadar, Emsisoft, Fortinet, ADMINUSLabs and Chong Lua Dao specifically marking it as phishing or malicious. Browser blocklists returned clean. The evidence package shows one positive review from the Education Review Office and zero scam reports or complaints. The school is registered as an active state primary school with the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

What this means for you

The site belongs to a real, government-recognised school. The engine flags appear to be false positives common with Wix-hosted educational sites. No evidence of phishing, malware, or fraudulent activity was found.

AI Recommendation
The site belongs to a legitimate New Zealand primary school. You can safely browse it for school information and enrolment details.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for marshall.school.nz, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · New Zealand
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • The domain marshall.school.nz is the official website for Marshall Laing Primary School, a state-funded educational institution in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • The school is officially recognized and listed by the New Zealand Ministry of Education (Education Counts) and the Education Review Office (ERO).
  • Contact details on the site (39 Marshall Laing Avenue, Mt Roskill) match official government records from NZQA and ERO.
  • The site provides legitimate educational resources, including enrolment forms, annual financial reports, and information on the Marshall Laing Music School.
  • No credible reports of scams or fraudulent activity were found associated with this domain; it is a standard .school.nz domain reserved for verified NZ educational entities.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Education Review Office (ERO)open

    "Marshall Laing School has a very positive profile in the local community. It provides students and whānau/family with a welcoming and inclusive environment."

Business registration
Status: active · New Zealand

Registered as a State Primary School (Institution No. 1362) with the NZ Ministry of Education.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found the domain is the official website for Marshall Laing Primary School, a state-funded institution in Auckland. The school is listed with the New Zealand Ministry of Education under Institution No. 1362 and receives positive feedback from the Education Review Office. Contact details on the site match official government records. No scam reports or complaints were found associated with this domain.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
10 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

10Malicious0Suspicious51Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
BitDefender
Malicious· phishing
Chong Lua Dao
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· phishing
Emsisoft
Malicious· phishing
Fortinet
Malicious· phishing
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Gridinsoft
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· phishing
SOCRadar
Malicious· phishing

10 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

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

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

Technical Details

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.

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers33840428
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (33840428).

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WR1
ExpiresSep 25, 2026 (73d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingWix.com Ltd.
Server locationUS
Web serverPepyaka
Platform / CMSWix

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://marshall.school.nz/
  • 2301https://marshall.school.nz/
  • 3200https://www.marshall.school.nz/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score18%
Reports on file8
ISPWix.com Ltd.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Avoid this site

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

  • Do not interact with marshall.school.nz

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  • 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.

  • Share your experience

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

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·marshall.school.nz
DANGEROUS

This is the official website for Marshall Laing Primary School, a state-funded school in Auckland, New Zealand. Multiple antivirus engines flagged the page as phishing despite clean browser blocklists and official government recognition. The school is listed with the New Zealand Ministry of Education and has positive reviews from the Education Review Office.

The site belongs to a legitimate New Zealand primary school. You can safely browse it for school information and enrolment details.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
10
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • marshall.school.nz shows every sign of being a scam site — avoid interacting with it. 10 of 92 security engines flag it (10 as outright malicious). This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
  • No — marshall.school.nz scored just 1/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
  • If you've already paid or handed over details on marshall.school.nz, 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 marshall.school.nz 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.
  • 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.
  • Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
  • You can report marshall.school.nz 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.
  • 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.
  • Yes. 10 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged marshall.school.nz, 10 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
  • No — marshall.school.nz 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.
  • marshall.school.nz resolves to an IP operated by Wix.com Ltd. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 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 marshall.school.nz has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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