No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is showmecables.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate cable distributor operating since 1995 with clean scans, 23-year domain age, and confirmed positive reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site sells cables, connectors, and related hardware with same-day shipping claims and a login form typical of an online store. Its domain is over 23 years old and tied to an active US-registered business founded in 1995. No malware detections, abuse reports, or scam-family matches appear in our scans. Independent sources show user confirmation of legitimacy and no complaints. The only minor note is an incomplete screenshot, but this does not affect the strong trust signals from age and reputation data.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for showmecables.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain age 8675 days (~23.7 years); company founded 1995
- - Physical address listed: 17792 Fitch, Irvine, California 92614; phone 1-888-519-9505
- - Reddit user: 'I'm pretty sure I've used Showmecables at work. They are legit'
- - Scamadviser states: 'showmecables.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website'
- - Part of Infinite Electronics brands; specializes in cables/connectors with same-day shipping claims
- - BBB profile exists but not accredited; no prominent complaints in search results
- - ResellerRatings shows high volume of reviews (thousands) with generally positive aggregate scores in recent data
Operates from 17792 Fitch, Irvine, CA 92614; founded 1995 as part of Integrated Network Cable / Infinite Electronics / INC Installs
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Two positive reviews were located: a Reddit user confirming real-world professional use and another source stating the site is safe and not a scam. Business registration records match the 1995 founding date and list a physical California address.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (customerservice@showmecables.com).
- Phone number listed (1-888-519-9505).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://showmecables.com/
- 2200https://www.showmecables.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 showmecables.com and not a lookalike like s-howmecables.com.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 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 found no threat indicators on showmecables.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- showmecables.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. showmecables.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 187 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- showmecables.com is 23.8 years old, registered on 8/27/2002 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. showmecables.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- showmecables.com resolves to an IP operated by Incapsula 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.
- 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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