Possible phishing patterns
Hosting suspension page on a 6-year-old domain linked to a legitimate New Orleans salon with clean scans and positive reviews. Patterns on this page look like credential-harvesting attempts. Don't sign in here — go to the brand's real site directly.
Is salonvous.com legit or a scam?
Hosting suspension page on a 6-year-old domain linked to a legitimate New Orleans salon with clean scans and positive reviews.
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
MT Intelligence
The page displays the generic message from the hosting provider stating the account has been suspended, with no login forms or active scam content visible. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with zero flags. The domain is over six years old, the hosting IP has no abuse history, and web research located multiple positive Yelp reviews plus social media presence for Salon Vous in New Orleans. The only concerning signal is the suspension notice itself plus the generic phishing-pattern match triggered by account-suspension wording. This combination points to a temporarily offline legitimate business rather than an active scam site.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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
Standard web hosting account suspension page with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for salonvous.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain salonvous.com listed as 'New Orleans Hair Salon' with physical address 4605 Freret St, New Orleans, LA 70115
- Active presence on Instagram (@salon.vous), Facebook (Salon Vous), Yelp, Vagaro booking site
- Yelp page shows 41 photos, 27 reviews, phone (504) 481-1099, hours Tue-Sat
- Current site page title: 'Account Suspended'
- Domain age: 2227 days (~6 years); no scam, complaint, or phishing reports found for the domain
- No mentions of typosquatting, cloning, or relation to major brands like Roblox/PayPal/etc.
- Searches for 'salonvous.com scam/review/complaint/reddit' returned only unrelated general hair salon discussions
- Yelpopen
"“Alis does amazing hair (every time I'm 100% happy), but she is also just an incredible person- kind, thoughtful, funny, and ..."
- Yelpopen
"I've been lucky to have Alis Connor as my hairstylist for years. She is professional, amazing and patient to say the least . She has a gift of making anyone ..."
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page contains phishing language (account verification, suspension warnings, etc.).
- Scam family match: Phishing Patterns.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (webmaster@salonvous.com).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://salonvous.com/
- 2302https://salonvous.com/
- 3200https://salonvous.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- Primary scraped category is phishing / credential-harvest.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 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.
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- Primary scraped category is phishing / credential-harvest.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Warning: phishing patterns
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Treat salonvous.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
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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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked salonvous.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- salonvous.com currently scores 50/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. salonvous.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 61 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- salonvous.com is 6.1 years old, registered on 4/22/2020 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report salonvous.com as clean.
- No. salonvous.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- salonvous.com resolves to an IP operated by GoDaddy.com, LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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