No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is thecuttingroom.net.au legit or a scam?
Official website of a real Riverstone NSW hair salon with 11-year business registration and multiple positive client reviews spanning years.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a local women's hair salon offering balayage, colour correction and other services with a physical address and phone numbers. Strongest signal is the confirmed active ABN 74 513 006 902 for The Trustee for The Hair Trust since 2012 plus the business name registered in 2013. Supporting evidence includes three genuine customer testimonials on the site and local Facebook mentions, plus zero scam or complaint reports found. The single antivirus flag appears isolated and does not match any scam-family patterns or clone indicators. Overall the combination of long business history, contact details and positive local feedback outweighs the minor flag.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for thecuttingroom.net.au, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain thecuttingroom.net.au hosts official site for The Cutting Room hair salon, Riverstone NSW
- Physical address listed: Shop 2, 43 Grantham Street, Riverstone NSW 2765; phone 02 9627 3885
- ABN 74 513 006 902 active since 03 May 2012 under The Trustee for The Hair Trust
- Business name 'The Cutting Room at Riverstone' registered 22 Apr 2013
- Multiple client testimonials on site praising service over 7-17 years
- Recommendations in local Facebook groups and Yelp listing
- No scam, fraud or complaint reports found in targeted web searches
- thecuttingroom.net.au/reviews/open
"I have been coming to the Cutting Room for a number of years and could not speak highly enough of the team and the service."
- thecuttingroom.net.au/reviews/open
"I have been coming to The Cutting Room for 17 years and I would never go anywhere else to get my hair done!"
- Facebook groupopen
"Try The Cutting Room At Riverstone they are excellent. They are at the Grantham Farm shops."
ABN 74 513 006 902 for The Trustee for The Hair Trust, active from 03 May 2012; business name 'The Cutting Room at Riverstone' registered 22 Apr 2013; main location NSW 2765
Our research found the domain hosts the official site for The Cutting Room hair salon in Riverstone NSW. Business registration shows ABN 74 513 006 902 active since 2012 and the trading name registered in 2013. Three positive customer reviews were located on the salon site and in local Facebook groups. No scam reports, fraud complaints or negative mentions were found across targeted searches.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE.
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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (hello@thecuttingroom.net.au).
- Phone number listed (2026-01-07 13).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://thecuttingroom.net.au/
- 2200https://www.thecuttingroom.net.au/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
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.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
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.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
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 thecuttingroom.net.au and not a lookalike like t-hecuttingroom.net.au.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.
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 thecuttingroom.net.au. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- thecuttingroom.net.au passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. thecuttingroom.net.au presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- thecuttingroom.net.au is unknown age through Melbourne IT. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged thecuttingroom.net.au as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged thecuttingroom.net.au with the following threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- thecuttingroom.net.au resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd in AU (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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