Is not-a-scam.com legit or a scam?
A suspicious single-product shop for a 'Flint' lint roller using an ironic domain name and displaying contradictory business history.
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
Fake shop — do not order
A suspicious single-product shop for a 'Flint' lint roller using an ironic domain name and displaying contradictory business history. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
The site presents several red flags typical of temporary retail scams. It claims a business history dating back to 1998, yet the domain was only registered 207 days ago. Fortinet has already flagged the site as a phishing risk. There is a complete absence of a physical address, phone number, or privacy policy, which are standard for legitimate e-commerce. The use of the domain 'not-a-scam.com' is a common tactic used to deflect suspicion or serve as a joke, but in a retail context, it signals high risk.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for not-a-scam.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain not-a-scam.com is approximately 207 days old and hosts a single-product page selling a 'Twistable Retractable Portable Travel Lint Roller' named 'Flint'
- Website content includes playful, flirtatious marketing copy describing the lint roller as a 'pocket-sized charmer' for smoothing fuzz and looking 'irresistible'
- Footer/copyright notice states 'copyright © 1998-2026 not-a-scam inc.' despite the domain's recent registration, creating an inconsistency
- No contact information, about page, business address, privacy policy, or trust signals (SSL details not extracted) were present on the site
- Extensive web searches for 'not-a-scam.com scam', reviews, complaints, or Reddit discussions returned zero specific reports or user experiences about this domain
- The ironic domain name 'not-a-scam.com' is commonly used in memes, jokes, and hypothetical scam examples across Reddit, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but not linked to this specific site
- No business registration records, WHOIS owner details, or third-party reviews (Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, etc.) were located
Copyright notice on site references 'not-a-scam inc' with dates 1998-2026; no verifiable company records, address, or official registration details found in searches
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with not-a-scam.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags not-a-scam.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — not-a-scam.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- not-a-scam.com is 6 months old, registered on 12/3/2025 through Squarespace Domains LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged not-a-scam.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. not-a-scam.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- not-a-scam.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 28, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around not-a-scam.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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