SAFE

No specific threat detected

Legitimate Melbourne electrician site with clean scans, active business registration, and positive customer reviews on hipages and Yellow Pages.

Security Review

Is mcgelectrical.com.au legit or a scam?

Legitimate Melbourne electrician site with clean scans, active business registration, and positive customer reviews on hipages and Yellow Pages.

This is a legitimate local electrician website. No scam reports, clean antivirus scans, and positive reviews on established directories support its legitimacy.

Cross-checked against 9 completed checks — none raised a concern
mcgelectrical.com.auScanned 1h ago
93/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 75·MT 92
Screenshot of mcgelectrical.com.auSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (3)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connection

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of mcgelectrical.com.au
LIVE RENDER
mcgelectrical.com.au

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

Visual 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.

20
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a standard business landing page for an electrical service, though it contains minor spelling errors in the navigation and body text.

Visual risk20/100

What our vision model saw

2 signals

Typographical error in navigation menu: 'Commerical' instead of 'Commercial'

Typographical error in hero text: 'Melboume' instead of 'Melbourne'

Intelligence

Editorial security brief
Intelligence
Low observed risktrust93/100
85%
Confidence
The site presents as a standard business page for MCG Electrical, an electrician serving Melbourne suburbs. Zero antivirus detections and clean browser blocklist status indicate no malicious code or known threats. The business holds an active Australian registration as a Registered Electrical Contractor with number 34349 and displays Energy Safe Victoria branding. Two independent review platforms contain positive customer feedback from 2023 and 2024. Minor spelling errors appear on the page but do not indicate fraud. The combination of verified registration, directory presence, and absence of complaints points to a real operating business rather than a scam operation.
Risk Factors
3
  • Minor spelling errors appear in navigation and hero text.
  • No phone number or postal address is visible on the page.
  • Domain age could not be determined from available records.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Active Australian business registration as Registered Electrical Contractor #34349.
  • Positive customer reviews on hipages and Yellow Pages from 2023 and 2024.
  • Energy Safe Victoria branding displayed on the site.
  • No scam reports or complaints found in the evidence package.
Investigation notes

Page Content

The captured page is a Squarespace-built business site offering residential and commercial electrical services across Melbourne suburbs including Fitzroy, Carlton, and Malvern. It lists services such as emergency call-outs, switchboard upgrades, EV charger installation, and commercial testing and tagging. The page displays a valid REC number 34349 and Energy Safe Victoria branding. Two spelling errors appear in navigation and hero text.

Infrastructure

The site loads from IP 198.185.159.145 with a moderate abuse score of 32/100. SSL is valid and issued by Let's Encrypt. The page pulls assets from Squarespace CDNs and external domains including clipsal.com and esv.vic.gov.au. No login forms, countdown timers, or push-notification prompts are present. One redirect hop occurs within the same domain.

Domain History

Domain age is unknown in the scan data. The registrar is Tucows (Australia) Pty Ltd trading as OpenSRS. WHOIS privacy protection is disabled. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings.

Web Reputation

No scam reports or complaints appear in the evidence package. Two positive customer reviews exist on hipages and Yellow Pages. The business is listed as active in Australian records with a valid Registered Electrical Contractor licence. No clone indicators or malicious associations were detected.

What this means for you

The site belongs to a registered Australian electrical contractor with documented customer feedback. Contact details should be verified directly before engaging services, but the available evidence shows no indicators of fraud or malicious intent.

Recommendation
The site appears legitimate. Verify the REC number directly with Energy Safe Victoria before hiring and obtain written quotes for any work.
Editorial assessment
SpecificEvidence-led

Web Research Findings

Independent findings for mcgelectrical.com.au, 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
Active · Australia
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
2 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • MCG Electrical is a Melbourne-based electrical services provider with a documented online presence across multiple business directories (Yellow Pages, hipages).
  • The business provides residential, commercial, and emergency electrical services, specifically targeting suburbs like Fitzroy, Carlton, and Malvern.
  • The website lists a valid Registered Electrical Contractor (REC) number: 34349.
  • Multiple third-party platforms contain positive customer testimonials for the business, dating back to 2023 and 2024.
  • No evidence of scam reports, fraud, or malicious activity was found associated with the domain.
Positive reviews (2)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • hipagesopen

    "Great work. Excellent customer service. Definitely would recommend and use again."

  • Yellow Pagesopen

    "Excellent workmanship, great communication and reasonable price. would highly recommend MCG Electrical."

Business registration
Status: active · Australia

The business identifies as a Registered Electrical Contractor (REC #34349) and displays Energy Safe Victoria branding.

Research summary
Editorial synthesis of the sourced facts above

Search of scam-report databases and consumer-review sites found no complaints or fraud reports for mcgelectrical.com.au. Two customer reviews on hipages and Yellow Pages describe satisfactory work and communication. The business appears in Australian directories with an active Registered Electrical Contractor licence #34349 and Energy Safe Victoria branding.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious56Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

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
Not 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
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainadmin@mcgelectrical.com.au
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (admin@mcgelectrical.com.au).
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
AgeUnknown
RegistrarTucows (Australia) Pty Ltd trading as OpenSRS
RegisteredUnknown
ExpiresUnknown
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR2
ExpiresSep 17, 2026 (57d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingSquarespace, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverSquarespace
Platform / CMSSquarespace

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://mcgelectrical.com.au/
  • 2200https://www.mcgelectrical.com.au/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score32%
Reports on file22
ISPSquarespace, Inc.
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

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 mcgelectrical.com.au and not a lookalike like m-cgelectrical.com.au.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

93
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·mcgelectrical.com.au
SAFE

This is a legitimate local electrician website. No scam reports, clean antivirus scans, and positive reviews on established directories support its legitimacy.

The site appears legitimate. Verify the REC number directly with Energy Safe Victoria before hiring and obtain written quotes for any work.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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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.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on mcgelectrical.com.au, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is an unknown age — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • mcgelectrical.com.au passed our automated checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from mcgelectrical.com.au), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from mcgelectrical.com.au is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report mcgelectrical.com.au as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — mcgelectrical.com.au 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.
  • mcgelectrical.com.au is an unknown age through Tucows (Australia) Pty Ltd trading as OpenSRS. 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.
  • Yes — mcgelectrical.com.au presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 57 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".
  • mcgelectrical.com.au resolves to an IP operated by Squarespace, Inc. 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 22, 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 mcgelectrical.com.au 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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