Warning signs detected
FOIA automation service on a 7-month-old domain whose hosting IP shows 31 abuse reports and mixed vendor trust scores. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is sunlightaccess.com legit or a scam?
FOIA automation service on a 7-month-old domain whose hosting IP shows 31 abuse reports and mixed vendor trust scores.
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 page presents itself as a legitimate FOIA request automation tool with clear service descriptions and no obvious scam patterns. The domain is 219 days old with valid SSL, yet the hosting IP has an abuse score of 56/100 and 31 prior reports. One security vendor reports blacklisting by multiple engines and assigns a low trust score, while another review site considers it safe. No business registration or contact details appear, and the site has no traffic ranking. These conflicting signals keep the overall assessment at suspicious rather than outright malicious.
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 clean, professional website for Sunlight Access offering FOIA document services. No scam indicators or suspicious patterns are visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sunlightaccess.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain sunlightaccess.com (age ~7 months) operates a service titled 'Sunlight Access - Get FOIA Documents Fast' for automating FOIA requests.
- Multiple public records show FOIA/OPRA/PRA requests submitted via records@sunlightaccess.com by Oshea Smith (also linked to Records Retrieval Solutions, address 215 N Payne St STE 33025, Alexandria, VA 22314) to agencies in IL, CA, NJ, VT,
- Scamadviser rates the site as 'legit and safe'.
- Gridinsoft reports 6/100 trust score and notes blacklisting by multiple security vendors.
- No user complaints, scam reports, or Reddit discussions specifically about sunlightaccess.com found in searches; no typosquat or clone indicators.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Multiple security vendors blacklist Sunlightaccess.com , and our checks show a 6/100 trust score. Avoid entering personal or payment data."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think sunlightaccess.com is legit and safe for consumers to access ."
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://sunlightaccess.com/
- 2301https://sunlightaccess.com/
- 3200https://www.sunlightaccess.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat sunlightaccess.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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 marked sunlightaccess.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- sunlightaccess.com currently scores 49/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. sunlightaccess.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 49 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sunlightaccess.com is 7 months old, registered on 10/21/2025 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. sunlightaccess.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sunlightaccess.com resolves to an IP operated by Webflow, Inc in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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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