Is remotelydependedchance.com legit or a scam?
A malicious Google clone linked to the ApateWeb malware campaign that uses brand impersonation to deceive users.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (1 outright malicious). This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot displays a fully-rendered, legitimate-looking Google search homepage with standard navigation and branding elements.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage layout and branding match the standard Google search interface
Functional navigation links for Gmail, Images, and Store are present
Standard search bar with voice and lens icons is visible
Footer contains legitimate links for Privacy, Terms, and Advertising
No suspicious urgency tactics or fake trust badges detected
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Google, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Google property.
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this domain is a deceptive clone of google.com, mimicking its layout and branding to appear legitimate. Multiple security engines, including CRDF and Gridinsoft, have flagged the site as malicious or suspicious. Research identifies this domain as part of the 'ApateWeb' campaign, a massive network of over 130,000 domains used to deliver scareware and unwanted software. The site lacks any real business registration and is primarily promoted through spam links on social media. Because it impersonates a major brand while being hosted on unrelated infrastructure, it poses a severe risk to users.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for remotelydependedchance.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered December 21, 2025 (approx. 6 months old as of late June 2026), registrar ENOM, INC., hosted on Servers.com (IP 172.240.108.68 or .84)
- PCrisk scan (May 2026): trust score 18/100, flagged by 3/91 security engines, categorized as Suspicious/Potentially Dangerous
- Listed in MalwareURL database under ApateWeb malware campaign, a large-scale operation delivering scareware, PUPs, and scam pages via 130,000+ domains (per Palo Alto Unit 42 report)
- Page presents as "Google" and replicates Google/Chrome branding/assets; includes redirects to google.com and generic suspicious object detections (e.g. families.google)
- Primarily promoted via Facebook spam posts linking to "full video" or adult/viral content pages with tracking parameters (?key=...)
- SURBL and QBMA listed; Quttera flagged medium-risk file related to google.com.http-redirect; no listings on Google Safe Browsing, PhishTank, or Spamhaus at time of scans
- No user reviews, Trustpilot/ScamAdviser entries, or business registration information located
Page title "Google", mimics Google/Chrome pages and assets (e.g. chrome-logo), HTTP redirect chain to google.com, flagged for replicating major brand
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://remotelydependedchance.com/
- 2301https://google.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.google.com/cross-domain
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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with remotelydependedchance.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 remotelydependedchance.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — remotelydependedchance.com scored 17/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. remotelydependedchance.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 80 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- remotelydependedchance.com is 6 months old, registered on 12/21/2025 through eNom, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged remotelydependedchance.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. remotelydependedchance.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- remotelydependedchance.com resolves to an IP operated by Servers.com, 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 28, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around remotelydependedchance.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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