Is storycheck.com safe?
http://storycheck.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
StoryCheck operates a subscription-based lookup service with documented billing complaints
StoryCheck is a long-standing service that provides phone and data lookups. While the site is technically secure, it utilizes a subscription model that has triggered multiple user complaints regarding hidden automatic renewals and difficulties obtaining refunds after trial periods.
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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 55/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "Complete scam you will get charged the full amount after cancelling the ‘trial’. And will be charged without notification, complete scam and hide behind the T…"-8 pts
- ModerateHosting IP has a moderate abuse confidence score with 76 reports.-7 pts
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain has been active for over 2800 days.
- Supports0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsA public record on a public review site reads: "StoryCheck is rated 4.6 based on 118 reviews"
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 70 to 55 and split those 15 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
StoryCheck is a long-standing service that provides phone and data lookups. While the site is technically secure, it utilizes a subscription model that has triggered multiple user complaints regarding hidden automatic renewals and difficulties obtaining refunds after trial periods.
Technical and Operational Assessment
The site itself shows no signs of malware or phishing, with clean results from security vendors and a valid TLS connection. However, the hosting infrastructure is associated with a high volume of abuse reports, which may indicate that the server hosts various other services, potentially impacting the overall reputation of the IP address.
Subscription Model and User Experience
The primary risk to visitors stems from the site's commercial model. Users are invited to sign up for a low-cost trial, which automatically converts into a recurring weekly subscription. Multiple independent reports highlight that users often feel misled by the terms of this conversion and encounter significant obstacles when attempting to cancel or request refunds.
While the site maintains a positive rating on some review platforms and provides a dedicated page addressing billing disputes, the recurring nature of the complaints suggests a pattern of friction that users should consider before providing payment information.
Why the score is 55
One customer complaint on a public review site: "Complete scam you will get charged the full amount after cancelling the ‘trial’. And will be charged without notification, complete scam and hide behind the T…". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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 - Clean
- 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 - Unrated
- 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
- Orcapot - Unrated
- 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
- Synthient - Unrated
- 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
- BitDefendermisc
- Googletechnology
- Sophosreference
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
Phone Look-Up
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Phone Look-Up
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
StoryCheck: Search Anyone by Phone, Name, Email or Photo
- Meta description
Find out who is behind a phone number, name, email or photo: likely owner, social profiles and photos. Over 1M searches run. They are never notified.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Terms/termsRead
- Refund / returns policy/refund-policyRead
- Contact page/contactRead
- Pricing/pricingRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
StoryCheck: Search Anyone by Phone, Name, Email or Photo
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Subscription Trap
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01One customer complaint on a public review site: "Complete scam you will get charged the full amount after cancelling the ‘trial’. And will be charged without notification, complete scam and hide behind the T…"
Web research findings
Independent findings for storycheck.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.
- Trustpilotopen
"Complete scam you will get charged the full amount after cancelling the ‘trial’. And will be charged without notification, complete scam and hide behind the T & Cs to justify the misleading information provided."
- Trustpilotopen
"Had a hidden subscription charge behind a 50c fee, charged me 30 euros and when I requested a refund moments after the charge went through it was denied"
- Reviews.ioopen
"StoryCheck is rated 4.6 based on 118 reviews"
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.
- Domainstorycheck.com
- Redirects tostorycheck.com
- Hosted byAmazon.com, Inc.
- Referencesi.pravatar.cc · instagram.com
Domain Timeline
- Jan 17, 2019Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 3, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
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 (support@storycheck.com).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for storycheck.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
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://storycheck.com/
- 2200https://storycheck.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Hosting IP has a moderate abuse confidence score with 76 reports.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One customer complaint on a public review site: "Complete scam you will get charged the full amount after cancelling the ‘trial’. And will be charged without notification, complete scam and hide behind the T…"
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 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.
Is storycheck.com a scam or is it safe?
Is storycheck.com safe to use?
Has storycheck.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is storycheck.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
StoryCheck operates a subscription-based lookup service with documented billing complaints
StoryCheck is a long-standing service that provides phone and data lookups. While the site is technically secure, it utilizes a subscription model that has triggered multiple user complaints regarding hidden automatic renewals and difficulties obtaining refunds after trial periods.
09 · Community
Community
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