Is nswpedia.com legit or a scam?
Pirated Nintendo Switch ROM distribution site flagged by 12 antivirus engines as malicious.
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
Critical risk detected
12 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
NSWpedia.com operates as a ROM distribution hub, hosting and cataloguing pirated Nintendo Switch games in NSP and XCI formats for use with emulators like Yuzu and Ryujinx. Twelve antivirus engines, including ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, CyRadar, and Gridinsoft, classify it as malicious. The site provides no legitimate business contact details—no email, phone, or postal address—and maintains complete anonymity through privacy-protected WHOIS registration. The domain is 827 days old, suggesting sustained operation despite the illegal nature of its content. The absence of any business registration, combined with the deliberate distribution of copyrighted material, confirms this is an unlicensed piracy operation rather than a legitimate gaming resource.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nswpedia.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent review aggregators provided ratings for this domain.
Antivirus Engines
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nswpedia.com/
- 2200https://nswpedia.com/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with nswpedia.com
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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 nswpedia.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — nswpedia.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. nswpedia.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nswpedia.com is 2.3 years old, registered on 3/9/2024 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.
- 13 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged nswpedia.com as malicious or suspicious (12 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. nswpedia.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nswpedia.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around nswpedia.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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