Critical risk detected
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (2 outright malicious). Our security review flagged this site as high-risk. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is spleenvent.com legit or a scam?
Yes — this is almost certainly a scam.
Google homepage clone at spleenvent.com flagged by Gridinsoft and MalwareURL as phishing with confirmed credential-theft behavior.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the legitimate Google search engine homepage.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsThe screenshot displays the standard Google search homepage interface.
No suspicious elements, urgency tactics, or deceptive patterns are present.
Intelligence
The domain spleenvent.com loads what looks like the Google search page but is hosted on a 239-day-old registration through eNom with no business contact details. Two of 92 engines flagged the page: Gridinsoft called it phishing and MalwareURL labeled it malware. The site redirects through two hops to google.com, matching the documented ApateWeb credential-harvest pattern. Independent reports from Gridinsoft and Scam Detector both assign very low trust scores and explicitly warn about impersonation followed by data theft. No legitimate business registration exists and the domain carries zero traffic ranking, which is consistent with throwaway phishing infrastructure rather than any Google property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for spleenvent.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Multiple security vendors and scanners have blacklisted the domain as a phishing site.
- The domain is associated with the 'ApateWeb' malware campaign.
- The site exhibits behavior consistent with credential-theft, including impersonation and urgent prompts.
- Security researchers have classified the site as high-risk for malware and phishing.
- The domain has been observed redirecting users to google.com.
- Gridinsoftopen
"We flagged Spleenvent.com as phishing. The page behavior matches a common credential-theft flow: impersonation first, urgency second, data request last."
- Scam Detectoropen
"The Scam Detector website Validator gives spleenvent.com one of the lowest trust scores on the platform: 12.2. It signals that the business could be defined by the following tags: Untrustworthy. Risky."
The site redirects to google.com and is flagged for impersonating trusted entities to steal credentials.
Gridinsoft flagged spleenvent.com as phishing and described the page behavior as matching a common credential-theft flow. Scam Detector assigned the domain a trust score of 12.2 and labeled it untrustworthy. Security researchers have associated the domain with the ApateWeb malware campaign and noted its pattern of impersonating Google before redirecting visitors.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 17, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8 months old today.
- Jul 14, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
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://spleenvent.com/
- 2301https://google.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.google.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with spleenvent.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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
This page impersonates Google search and redirects users to the real site. Two security engines flagged it as phishing and malware, and independent reports confirm it belongs to the ApateWeb campaign.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- spleenvent.com is a high-risk scam site — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for phishing and clone site. 3 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). The domain is 7 months old through eNom, LLC. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — spleenvent.com scored just 15/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on spleenvent.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 spleenvent.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 spleenvent.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.
- Yes. 3 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged spleenvent.com, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — spleenvent.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.
- spleenvent.com is 7 months old, registered on November 17, 2025 through eNom, 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.
- spleenvent.com resolves to an IP operated by Servers.com, 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.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about spleenvent.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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