SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is sudburyfilms.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 88/100

Legitimate Sudbury Ontario film company site with clean scans, three-year domain age, and confirmed local business registration.

sudburyfilms.comScanned 8d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 94·MT 85
Category tags
businessentertainment90% MT confidence
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
Data unavailable
Domain Age
3 years old
Registered Mar 26, 2023
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents itself as Sudbury Films, offering consultation for local filmmakers and virtual theatre projects. The domain is over three years old with valid SSL and no blocklist hits. Our research confirms registration as Sudbury Films Inc. in the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce with founder contact details. Local news coverage and social media presence further support legitimacy. The page renders as a normal promotional site with no phishing forms or urgency tactics.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

The page promotes film project consultation services and a virtual theatre platform called GIV'N. It includes sections on supporting local filmmakers and references collaboration with established directors.

Infrastructure

Hosted on IP 145.223.124.198 with very low abuse score. Valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. Uses Zyro site builder assets and loads normally without redirects or suspicious external scripts.

Domain History

Registered 1158 days ago through GoDaddy with no privacy protection. No recent changes or signs of domain flipping.

Web Reputation

Business appears in official Canadian chamber directory. Local media has covered their projects. No scam reports or complaints located in searches.

Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered over three years ago with active business records in Canada.
  • Listed in Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce with verifiable founder details.
  • Local media coverage of their virtual theatre and film projects.
  • Clean browser blocklist status and very low IP abuse score.
  • Fully rendered professional site design with no scam indicators.
AI Recommendation
The site appears safe to visit if you are interested in their film or virtual theatre services.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

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sudburyfilms.com

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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.

10
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

Page shows a fully rendered, elaborate cinematic promotional design with no visible scam indicators such as fake seals, urgency timers, pop-ups, or cloned brand elements.

Visual risk10/100

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sudburyfilms.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
3.2 yrs
Registered Mar 2023
Business registration
Active · Canada
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Sudbury Films Inc. / sudburyfilms.com operated by Larry Bernard, Sudbury Ontario area filmmaker and founder; builds 3D digital twin of Greater Sudbury and virtual theatres (GIV'N platform).
  • Active social media: Facebook page (Sudbury Films), LinkedIn company page, YouTube channel @SudburyFilms with promo videos.
  • Local media coverage in The Sudbury Star (e.g., Feb 2026 article on virtual theatre network launch; Dec 2025 on film showcase).
  • Listed in Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce directory with contact details.
  • Scamadviser check rates sudburyfilms.com as legit and safe.
  • Domain references include service terms, privacy policy, IP asset policy dated March 2026.
  • No scam reports, complaints, or Reddit discussions linking the domain to fraud found in searches.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Scamadviseropen

    "In summary, It seems that sudburyfilms.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."

Business registration
Status: active · Canada

Listed in Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce directory as Sudbury Films Inc.; founder Larry Bernard with PO BOX 614, Azilda, ON contact

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found the domain associated with Sudbury Films Inc., a registered Canadian business listed in the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. Local media coverage in The Sudbury Star discusses their virtual theatre network and film showcase events. No scam reports or complaints were identified across searched sources.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers1779233039829
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (1779233039829).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age3 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredMar 26, 2023
ExpiresMar 26, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 17, 2026 (81d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingBrander Group Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverhcdn
Platform / CMSHostinger Website Builder

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://sudburyfilms.com/
  • 2200https://sudburyfilms.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score1%
Reports on file2
ISPBrander Group Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

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.

Top match: Fake Shop
Fake Shop
Low-level signals
0/100
  • Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).

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 sudburyfilms.com and not a lookalike like s-udburyfilms.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
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AbuseIPDB
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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 sudburyfilms.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·sudburyfilms.com
SAFE

Sudbury Films is a legitimate Canadian film production and virtual theatre company. Our analysis finds a three-year-old domain with clean security scans, active business registration in Ontario, and local media coverage. No scam indicators appear in the scan or research.

The site appears safe to visit if you are interested in their film or virtual theatre services.

AV engines
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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