No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sync.sparteo.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate adtech subdomain of established French company Sparteo with clean scans, valid SSL, and zero scam reports.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The subdomain belongs to Sparteo, a real French adtech firm founded around 2016-2018 and registered as an active SAS company in Tourcoing. The domain itself is over 10 years old with valid SSL and zero flags from our antivirus network or blocklists. No abuse reports exist on the hosting IP and the page shows only a clean routing error with no scam content or impersonation. Our research found no complaints or negative mentions, only normal industry references to their Prebid adapter and publisher tools. These signals together indicate a low-risk technical endpoint rather than any fraudulent site.
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
Page displays a clean server-side routing error with no scam indicators, trust elements, or promotional content.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sync.sparteo.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Sparteo is a French adtech company (corporate.sparteo.com) focused on publisher advertising solutions, header bidding, analytics, and compliance; founded ~2016-2018, headquartered in Tourcoing/Paris area with 51-200 employees.
- sync.sparteo.com is a subdomain of sparteo.com; appears in DNS records, Prebid.org bidder documentation (prebid@sparteo.com), and occasional access logs.
- Company has active LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/company/sparteo, ~4.7k followers), Crunchbase profile, and legal notices confirming French registration (RCS references in privacy policy).
- No scam reports, complaints, Reddit discussions, or negative reviews found for sync.sparteo.com or sparteo.com in web searches.
- Domain sparteo.com registered with Gandi SAS; no evidence of typosquatting or relation to major brands like PayPal, Roblox, etc.
- Company mentioned positively in industry contexts (e.g., Prebid adapter, adops Reddit post by co-founder, FT1000 fastest-growing companies).
Simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with registered office at 96 rue du Pont Rompu – 59200 Tourcoing; share capital €6,615.53
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
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 sync.sparteo.com and not a lookalike like s-ync.sparteo.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 sync.sparteo.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sync.sparteo.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sync.sparteo.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sync.sparteo.com is 10.6 years old, registered on 11/9/2015 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report sync.sparteo.com as clean.
- No. sync.sparteo.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sync.sparteo.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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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