No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is syracuse.craigslist.org legit or a scam?
Official Craigslist subdomain for Syracuse with a 28-year-old domain and zero security flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page renders the standard Craigslist layout for jobs, housing, and local sales in Syracuse. Domain registration dates back 10495 days with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP that shows no abuse history. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero detections. The evidence package confirms this is an official subdomain listed on craigslist.org itself. Individual scam listings posted by users appear in scattered forum threads, but the site itself shows no signs of being fraudulent or cloned.
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
This is the fully rendered, legitimate Craigslist site with standard text-heavy layout and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for syracuse.craigslist.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- syracuse.craigslist.org is listed as an official city site on https://www.craigslist.org/
- Page title and description exactly match official Craigslist format for local classifieds
- Domain age 10495 days (old, established)
- Multiple Reddit threads reference it as the local Syracuse Craigslist for jobs, gigs, housing
- User warnings exist about individual scam listings posted on the site (e.g., fake sellers, cheap bikes)
- No evidence of the domain itself being fraudulent or a clone
- Craigslist, Inc. company info publicly available with US address
- paflyfish.comopen
"Craigslist Scam Alert, pass the word... Do not buy from,Theodore Catalano, if that is his real name. https://syracuse.craigslist.org/spo/5014407237.html"
- Facebook groupopen
"Be careful on these 2 Craigslist listings. Same person is posting and showing 2 different locations in Syracuse. ... Could be legit but I have a bad feeling about it."
Craigslist, Inc., San Francisco, CA; official subdomain listed on craigslist.org
Our research found two mentions of individual scam listings posted on the Syracuse Craigslist page, one on a fishing forum and one in a Facebook group. Both sources treat the domain as the real local Craigslist site. Business registration for Craigslist, Inc. is confirmed active. No reports indicate the subdomain itself is fake or malicious.
Antivirus Engines
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://syracuse.craigslist.org/
- 2200https://syracuse.craigslist.org/
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 syracuse.craigslist.org and not a lookalike like s-yracuse.craigslist.org.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 found no threat indicators on syracuse.craigslist.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- syracuse.craigslist.org 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. syracuse.craigslist.org presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 239 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- syracuse.craigslist.org is 28.8 years old, registered on 9/11/1997 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report syracuse.craigslist.org as clean.
- No. syracuse.craigslist.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- syracuse.craigslist.org resolves to an IP operated by Craigslist, Inc. in US (usage type: Commercial). 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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