No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is stonegroupinc.com legit or a scam?
Established marketing agency site with 25-year-old domain, physical address, and clean record except one unwanted-software blocklist flag.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a full-service marketing firm with contact details and portfolio text that matches an operating business. Domain registration dates back 9331 days through Network Solutions with no privacy masking. Our research found the company listed in directories since the late 1980s and no scam reports or customer complaints on any platform. The only negative signal is a single browser blocklist entry for unwanted software. Visual capture failed to render fully, leaving the page appearance unconfirmed but content text consistent with a normal agency site.
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 stonegroupinc.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- stonegroupinc.com is the website of The Stone Group, Inc., a full-service marketing, advertising, design and digital agency based in Pleasanton, California.
- Company founded approximately 1987-1988 per TechBehemoths and LinkedIn; claims over 30 years experience on site.
- Physical address: 120 Spring Street, Pleasanton, CA 94566; phone (925) 846-4432 listed across directories.
- Active profiles on LinkedIn (Pleasanton, CA, ~108 followers), Facebook, Instagram, Clutch.co (unclaimed profile), and ZoomInfo.
- pcrisk.com security scan (recent): trust score 83/100, 1/91 engines flagged, one blacklist for unwanted software; described as legitimate business site.
- No scam reports, complaints, customer reviews, or negative mentions found in searches on Reddit, BBB, Trustpilot, or general web.
- Domain age exceeds 25 years (9331 days); consistent branding as marketing agency with no clone/typosquat indicators.
Our research found stonegroupinc.com listed as the official site of The Stone Group, Inc., a marketing agency in Pleasanton, California, operating since approximately 1987. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appeared on Reddit, BBB, or review platforms. Business directories confirm the address and phone number shown on the site.
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE.
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.
- Phone number listed (925.846.4432).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://stonegroupinc.com/
- 2200https://stonegroupinc.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
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 stonegroupinc.com and not a lookalike like s-tonegroupinc.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Trust History
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 stonegroupinc.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- stonegroupinc.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. stonegroupinc.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 146 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- stonegroupinc.com is 25.6 years old, registered on 11/16/2000 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged stonegroupinc.com with the following threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- stonegroupinc.com resolves to an IP operated by Liquid Web, L.L.C 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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