No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is pctx.us legit or a scam?
Legitimate industrial power company site with clean scans, active Texas LLC registration, and SEC vendor mentions.
Analysis Summary
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 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
The site appears to be a legitimate corporate page for an industrial power company, though it uses an intrusive pop-up with urgency-based marketing to capture leads.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsIntrusive pop-up modal overlaying the main content
Urgency-based marketing language regarding equipment shortages
Professional corporate branding for Paradigm Critical Power
Functional layout with clear navigation and process steps
Intelligence
The page presents itself as a corporate site for Paradigm Controls, an electrical infrastructure company. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The domain is tied to Paradigm Controls of Texas, LLC, registered since 2007 and listed as a vendor in Cipher Mining's SEC filings. Web research found one positive employer review and zero scam complaints. The only minor concern is an intrusive lead-capture pop-up using urgency language, but this does not indicate fraud. Overall the signals point to a real operating business rather than a scam operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pctx.us, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain pctx.us belongs to Paradigm Controls of Texas, LLC, an electrical systems integrator founded in 2007.
- The company is a verified vendor for publicly traded firms, including Cipher Mining Inc., as documented in SEC Form 10-Q and 10-K filings.
- The business maintains a physical presence in Tomball, Texas, with a PO Box in the same city.
- Search results show the company has been active in the industrial power sector since at least 2011, collaborating with other firms like Lectrus Corporation.
- No credible scam reports or fraud warnings were found specifically targeting this domain or business entity.
- Salary.comopen
"A reliable employer that takes employee development and satisfaction seriously every step. Workload varies, sometimes causing stress. They promote from within and recognize talent."
Registered as Paradigm Controls of Texas, LLC. Mentioned in SEC filings for Cipher Mining Inc. as a third-party vendor.
Our research found no scam reports or complaints targeting pctx.us or Paradigm Controls. The company appears in SEC filings as a verified vendor and maintains an active Texas LLC registration since 2007. A single positive review describes it as a reliable employer. No negative mentions surfaced in general web sources.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (281-516-9337).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pctx.us/
- 2200https://pctx.us/
Server Reputation
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 pctx.us and not a lookalike like p-ctx.us.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the website for Paradigm Controls, a Texas-based electrical systems integrator. The domain shows clean scans, a real business registration, and vendor mentions in SEC filings. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research.
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 pctx.us, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- pctx.us passed our automated checks with a trust score of 86/100. 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 pctx.us), 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 pctx.us 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 pctx.us 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 — pctx.us 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.
- Yes — pctx.us presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, valid for another 85 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".
- pctx.us resolves to an IP operated by Pressable 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 10, 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 pctx.us 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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