Is springschurch.com safe?
http://springschurch.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Springs Church is a long-standing Canadian church website with clean technical checks, but its public reputation is mixed and its donation and newsletter flows lead off-domain.
springschurch.com presents itself as the online home of Springs Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation with locations in Manitoba and Alberta, Canada. The domain has been registered for over 23 years, the connection is encrypted, and no security vendor flags the site, so there is no technical threat here. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address, which are normal transparency signals for a real organisation. What keeps this out of the Safe band is the operator side: two independent public complaints describe aggressive fundraising pressure and a distressing personal experience, and the site's main commercial actions — donations and newsletter sign-ups — route visitors to third-party services rather than staying on the church's own domain. Nothing in the evidence shows fraud, malware or a deceptive checkout, so this is a Low Risk rating rather than a dangerous one.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 2 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "It's another 'Christian' social group, asking for your money every week, and trying to hammer home that "God is building His church! Give us money, because…"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "They broke my children's spirits! waiting outside in front of our house waving at the bus driver to stop so we could go to the Christmas party and he drove by…"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 8433 days old, indicating a long-established presence.
- SupportsNo Safe Browsing warning, a valid TLS connection and a clean hosting IP reputation.
- SupportsThe site lists an own-domain contact email, a phone number and a postal address.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
springschurch.com presents itself as the online home of Springs Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation with locations in Manitoba and Alberta, Canada. The domain has been registered for over 23 years, the connection is encrypted, and no security vendor flags the site, so there is no technical threat here. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address, which are normal transparency signals for a real organisation. What keeps this out of the Safe band is the operator side: two independent public complaints describe aggressive fundraising pressure and a distressing personal experience, and the site's main commercial actions — donations and newsletter sign-ups — route visitors to third-party services rather than staying on the church's own domain. Nothing in the evidence shows fraud, malware or a deceptive checkout, so this is a Low Risk rating rather than a dangerous one.
Technical checks are clean and the organisation is identifiable
The saved checks found no threat warning from the browser threat feed and a valid encrypted connection, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of zero across zero saved reports. In plain terms, there is no evidence of malware, phishing infrastructure or a compromised server behind this domain.
The registrable domain is 8433 days old, roughly 23 years, which is consistent with an established organisation rather than a throwaway site. The pages also publish a contact email on the site's own domain, a phone number and a postal address — the kind of details a real congregation would list.
The site describes itself through church-life content such as cafes, child dedication, life courses, volunteer work and water baptism, alongside links to affiliated entities including Springs Christian Academy, Miracle Channel and Springs College. These are ordinary ministry and community references, not commercial lures.
Operator reputation is mixed and the money flow leaves the domain
Two independent public complaints were found. One criticises the organisation as a social group that asks for money every week and frames giving as God's will; the other describes a distressing personal experience involving a children's event. Both are adverse external reports about the operator, and they are the main reason this site does not sit in the Safe band despite clean technical results.
The site's own commercial actions are donation-oriented: a 'GIVE' menu with options to give now, learn why the church gives, and leave a legacy. That is a normal non-profit fundraising pattern, but it means visitors are being asked for money directly on the site.
The newsletter sign-up forms for Manitoba and Alberta do not stay on the church's domain — they point to a third-party mailing-list host. This is a cross-domain commercial flow, common and not inherently malicious, but it does mean visitor contact details are submitted to an outside service rather than to the church's own infrastructure.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 91
No detectionsSaved analysis from September 18, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 32 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 91
All 91 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiReligion
- BitDefenderreligion
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerwidely-known religions
- Googlereligion
- Sophosreligion and spirituality
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
GIVE ME JESUS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
GIVE ME JESUS
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Springs Church Canada in Winnipeg and Calgary
- Meta description
Join Springs Church Canada in Winnipeg and Calgary. Meet new friends, strengthen your faith in Jesus, and live the Spirit Contemporary life.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Contact page/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Springs Church Canada in Winnipeg and Calgary
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 8433 days old, indicating a long-established presence.
- 02No Safe Browsing warning, a valid TLS connection and a clean hosting IP reputation.
- 03The site lists an own-domain contact email, a phone number and a postal address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for springschurch.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Catalog Onlineopen
"It's another 'Christian' social group, asking for your money every week, and trying to hammer home that "God is building His church! Give us money, because it's God's will"."
- Exaopen
"They broke my children's spirits! waiting outside in front of our house waving at the bus driver to stop so we could go to the Christmas party and he drove by us like we are nothing."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The 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.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainspringschurch.com
- Redirects tospringschurch.com
- Hosted byDigitalOcean, LLC
- Referencesgmpg.org · google.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 20, 2003Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
springschurch.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@springschurch.com).
- Phone number listed (8 (204) 233-7003).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for cpanel.springschurch.com.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://springschurch.com/
- 2200https://springschurch.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "It's another 'Christian' social group, asking for your money every week, and trying to hammer home that "God is building His church! Give us money, because…" · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "They broke my children's spirits! waiting outside in front of our house waving at the bus driver to stop so we could go to the Christmas party and he drove by…"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 91 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Sep 18, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 18, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Springs Church is a long-standing Canadian church website with clean technical checks, but its public reputation is mixed and its donation and newsletter flows lead off-domain.
springschurch.com presents itself as the online home of Springs Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation with locations in Manitoba and Alberta, Canada. The domain has been registered for over 23 years, the connection is encrypted, and no security vendor flags the site, so there is no technical threat here. The site's own pages list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address, which are normal transparency signals for a real organisation. What keeps this out of the Safe band is the operator side: two independent public complaints describe aggressive fundraising pressure and a distressing personal experience, and the site's main commercial actions — donations and newsletter sign-ups — route visitors to third-party services rather than staying on the church's own domain. Nothing in the evidence shows fraud, malware or a deceptive checkout, so this is a Low Risk rating rather than a dangerous one.
09 · Community
Community
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