Is shawcable.net legit or a scam?
Official network infrastructure for Rogers and Shaw services with over 26 years of established history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered since 1999 and is officially owned by Rogers Communications Canada Inc. following their acquisition of Shaw. Our analysis shows it is used extensively for backend network operations, including traceroute hops and email server hosting. While some users report receiving phishing emails that impersonate Shaw, these are external attacks and do not originate from the domain itself. The site loads legitimate Rogers branding and assets from verified corporate servers. There are no malicious detections across our antivirus network.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for shawcable.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered November 5, 1999 (over 26 years old), expires November 5, 2026; registrant is Rogers Communications Canada Inc., 333 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Name servers include multiple Akamai entries and internal ns7nocg.shawcable.net etc.; status clientTransferProhibited.
- Used extensively for Shaw/Rogers email infrastructure (webmail.shaw.ca, shawmail.*.shawcable.net, reverse DNS for customer IPs) and network routing (traceroutes frequently show *.shawcable.net hops).
- Shaw Communications acquired by and merged into Rogers Communications in 2023; services now under "Rogers together with Shaw" branding.
- No direct scam reports or malware detections for shawcable.net itself; all scam mentions are about phishing emails impersonating Shaw/Rogers.
- Rogers Communications Canada Inc. is an active federal corporation (number 1657328-2). Shaw had 257 BBB complaints in last 3 years (pre- and post-merger service issues).
- Netify.ai confirms *.shawcable.net domain associated with Shaw ISP/telco providing internet, TV, phone, mobile services.
- Reddit r/shawopen
"Is this a scam? My mom has been getting these emails from different accounts prompting her to click on the links"
- Facebook groupopen
"Beware new scam… I’ve received two of these notice from “Shaw”. At first I thought they had changed the billing format but it’s a scam!"
- Rogers Business Shawopen
"A scam is circulating, targeting business and residential customers, requesting they make payments using Bitcoin."
Registered to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Corporation number 1657328-2), active under Canada Business Corporations Act. Shaw acquired and merged into Rogers in 2023.
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://shawcable.net/
- 2301https://shawcable.net/
- 3301https://www.shaw.ca/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.rogers.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 shawcable.net and not a lookalike like s-hawcable.net.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
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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 found no threat indicators on shawcable.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- shawcable.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. shawcable.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 146 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- shawcable.net is 26.7 years old, registered on 11/5/1999 through Webnames.ca Inc.. 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 shawcable.net as clean.
- No. shawcable.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- shawcable.net resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in CA (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.
- Yes. shawcable.net sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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