Critical risk detected
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is squeezethegrape.com legit or a scam?
Wine blog flagged by Fortinet and two other engines as phishing despite clean layout and no scam features visible.
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 site presents as a personal wine notes and review blog with normal WordPress-style content and no login forms or payment elements. Three antivirus engines including Fortinet labeled it phishing or malicious while browser blocklists stayed clean. The domain is over two years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP, yet it carries zero traffic ranking and a Gridinsoft trust score of only 11/100. No user complaints or clone indicators appear in our research, but the conflicting security signals keep the overall risk moderate. The combination of AV detections on an otherwise ordinary blog is the main reason for the suspicious verdict.
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
The screenshot shows a fully rendered, professionally designed wine blog with clean layout and 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 squeezethegrape.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain squeezethegrape.com hosts a wine blog titled 'Home - Squeeze the Grape' with content about exploring, enjoying, and reviewing wines.
- Domain registered March 2, 2024 via Squarespace Domains LLC; age approximately 2.2 years.
- No user-generated scam reports, complaints, or Reddit discussions found about the domain.
- Gridinsoft flags the site with 11/100 trust score citing 6 blacklist detections (including some phishing/malicious labels) and limited reputation data.
- Site uses WordPress, has active SSL, hosted on Google infrastructure; no mentions of sales, logins, or payments.
- Extensive unrelated search results for 'squeeze the grape' in winemaking contexts; no evidence of brand cloning or typosquatting.
- Gridinsoftopen
"squeezethegrape.com should not be treated as a safe website. Gridinsoft gives it a 11/100 trust score, and multiple security vendors blacklist the domain."
Gridinsoft lists the domain with an 11/100 trust score and notes multiple security vendors have blacklisted it. No user complaints, Reddit threads, or other scam reports were located. The site appears to be a personal wine blog with no business registration records found.
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://squeezethegrape.com/
- 2200https://squeezethegrape.com/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with squeezethegrape.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.
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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 flags squeezethegrape.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — squeezethegrape.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. squeezethegrape.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 43 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- squeezethegrape.com is 2.2 years old, registered on 3/2/2024 through Squarespace Domains LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged squeezethegrape.com as malicious or suspicious (3 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. squeezethegrape.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- squeezethegrape.com resolves to an IP operated by Google 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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