Warning signs detected
Established construction bidding platform with 18-year-old domain but 42 complaints about billing practices and aggressive marketing. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is planhub.com legit or a scam?
Be careful — we couldn't verify this site.
Established construction bidding platform with 18-year-old domain but 42 complaints about billing practices and aggressive marketing.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. 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 presents a professional, fully-rendered business layout for a construction platform with standard marketing elements. While it uses a limited-time gift card offer to drive registrations, the overall visual cues are consistent with a legitimate B2B service.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPromotional banner offering a $25 Visa Gift Card for the first 100 new users
Multiple industry trust badges from G2, Inc. 5000, and Capterra dated Winter 2025
Professional layout with functional navigation menu and clear branding
Standard call-to-action buttons for 'Book A Demo' and 'Try For Free'
Five-star rating graphic with 'Trusted By Thousands' social proof text
Intelligence
The domain registered in 2008 shows long-term operation and the page renders a professional B2B interface with navigation, trust badges, and demo CTAs. Antivirus engines returned zero detections and the hosting IP carries only a moderate abuse score. Evidence from Reddit and BBB reveals a pattern of complaints focused on auto-renewal charges that are hard to cancel and unsolicited marketing calls. The business lists an active Florida registration and BBB accreditation, yet the volume of complaints around subscription handling raises concern. The promotional $25 gift card offer for the first 100 users is a common retention tactic that can mask renewal terms. These factors together place the site in the suspicious band rather than outright malicious or fully trusted.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for planhub.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- PlanHub is a long-standing construction bidding platform registered since 2008.
- The company is BBB Accredited with an A+ rating, though it has 42 logged complaints primarily regarding billing and unsolicited marketing.
- Numerous users on industry forums (Reddit, G2) report aggressive email marketing and difficulty canceling subscriptions.
- Subcontractors frequently complain about a 'pay-to-play' model where they cannot view project files sent via invite without a paid subscription.
- Positive feedback highlights the platform's ease of use and its effectiveness in sourcing new commercial project leads for small to mid-sized contractors.
- Redditopen
"total scam. Stay away from PlanHub, after the first year subscription, they keep charging you every year and if you would like to cancel, they do not honor or refund your money back."
- BBBopen
"Pure Harassment! I was solicited via email, without request or contact... Now i am receiving multiple phone calls and voice mails and emails explaining that my 'free trial' has expired."
- Redditopen
"As a subcontractor, I find it very shady. You send me an invite, but i can't view/download plans or even get basic project information unless I 'upgrade' my access to a paid account."
- Capterraopen
"The platform is user-friendly, and it helps connect with general contractors quickly, which makes it easier to grow the bid pipeline and stay active with new work."
- G2open
"Before PlanHub, I've never used a platform like it to source projects. It was very easy to get acclimated to it and to learn how to use it. I love the filter feature."
Headquartered at 1665 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, Suite 300, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.
Our research located three scam-related reports on Reddit and BBB describing billing disputes, aggressive marketing, and difficulty canceling subscriptions. Two positive reviews on Capterra and G2 highlight the platform's ease of use for sourcing construction leads. The company maintains an active Florida registration and BBB accreditation despite 42 logged complaints focused on subscription handling.
Domain Timeline
- Mar 3, 2008Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 18 years old today.
- Jul 13, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as suspicious
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
planhub.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
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 · referencedThe 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.
- 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://planhub.com/
- 2200https://planhub.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat planhub.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
- OpenShare your experience
If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.
Final Verdict
Planhub.com operates a construction bidding platform that has drawn repeated complaints about aggressive marketing and difficult cancellations. The domain is 18 years old with clean antivirus scans, yet 42 complaints and multiple Reddit reports cite billing issues and pay-to-play restrictions. Users should review subscription terms carefully before providing payment details.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- planhub.com looks like a likely scam site — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for subscription trap. The domain is 18.4 years old through GoDaddy.com, LLC. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — planhub.com scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on planhub.com, 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 planhub.com 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 planhub.com 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.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report planhub.com 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 — planhub.com 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.
- planhub.com is 18.4 years old, registered on March 3, 2008 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 — planhub.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 63 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".
- planhub.com resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, 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.
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