Security Review

Is themclaneteam.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 90/100

Established East Bay luxury real estate team with 8-year-old domain, active California licensing, and 56 verified positive client reviews.

themclaneteam.comScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 95·MT 88
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/66
All engines report clean
Domain Age
8 years old
Registered May 10, 2018
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

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

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust88/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The McLane Team operates as a licensed real estate brokerage affiliated with eXp Realty in Walnut Creek and San Ramon, California. Lauren McLane holds an active California Department of Real Estate license (DRE #01955004) and maintains verified professional profiles across Zillow, Yelp, and RealTrends. The domain was registered approximately 8 years ago and shows no signs of recent compromise or abandonment. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections, the hosting IP has a clean abuse score, and SSL is valid. Independent review aggregators show 56 verified client testimonials on Zillow averaging 5.0 stars, with consistent positive mentions on Yelp and Experience.com. Web searches for scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative news related to this team or domain returned no results. The business registration data confirms active status with licensed agents operating in the East Bay market.
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Page Content

The website presents a professional real estate marketing site for The McLane Team, featuring service descriptions (luxury home sales, staging, photography, market analysis), team member profiles, and community listings across 20+ East Bay neighborhoods. Contact information includes a primary phone number (925-722-5778) and email on the themclaneteam.com domain. The page loads external resources from legitimate third-party services (Google Fonts, Zillow, Yelp, Instagram, Facebook) consistent with a modern real estate brokerage website.

Infrastructure

Domain registered 2,958 days ago (~8 years) via GoDaddy with no privacy masking. SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt with 64 days remaining validity. Hosting IP 68.66.226.116 shows zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. Single redirect with no cross-domain or homoglyph indicators. No malware, phishing, or suspicious content detected by our antivirus network or sandbox analysis.

Domain History

Long-standing domain registration aligns with the business's multi-year operation in the East Bay real estate market. No evidence of recent transfers, suspicious activity, or domain hijacking. WHOIS data shows consistent registrar and no privacy protection, typical of legitimate business domains.

Web Reputation

Zillow profile shows 56 verified team reviews with 5.0-star average rating and 196 total sales attributed to the team. Yelp listing confirms business affiliation with eXp Realty in Walnut Creek. Experience.com and RealTrends both verify the team as active licensed agents. No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative news found in web searches. Business registration confirms active status with California Department of Real Estate licensing.

Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 8 years ago with consistent business operation history.
  • 56 verified 5-star client reviews on Zillow with detailed testimonials.
  • Licensed California real estate agent (Lauren McLane, DRE #01955004) with active professional profiles.
  • Clean antivirus scans, valid SSL certificate, and zero abuse reports on hosting IP.
  • Verified business registration and presence on multiple legitimate real estate platforms (Zillow, Yelp, RealTrends, Experience.com).
AI Recommendation
This is a legitimate real estate brokerage website. You can safely contact The McLane Team for real estate services in the East Bay area. Verify the agent's California DRE license independently if desired, though the credentials provided are confirmed.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Domain age
8.1 yrs
Registered May 2018
Business registration
Active · United States
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
3 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain themclaneteam.com is the official website for The McLane Team, a real estate group led by Lauren McLane (Cal DRE# 01955004) affiliated with eXp Realty / eXp Luxury in Walnut Creek/San Ramon, CA.
  • Lauren McLane maintains active professional profiles on Zillow (5.0/5 from 56 team reviews, 196 total sales), Instagram (@homesbylauren), LinkedIn, and RealTrends (verified top team).
  • Business has been operating for years with consistent positive mentions across Yelp, Experience.com, and local business directories; no scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative news found in searches.
  • Page content and linked profiles describe luxury real estate services in the East Bay area (Walnut Creek, San Ramon, Danville, etc.), with emphasis on marketing, staging, and client communication.
  • Searches for "themclaneteam.com scam", "Lauren McLane fraud", or similar terms returned only general real estate scam warnings unrelated to this team or domain.
  • Domain age of ~2958 days (~8 years) aligns with long-term operation of a licensed real estate business with no red flags in public records or reviews.
Positive reviews (3)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Zillowopen

    "5.0 rating (56 team reviews). Testimonials include: "Working with Lauren McClane and her team was an absolute pleasure! From the first consultation to closing day, Lauren's communication skills stood out as exceptional..." (Noah J. Pyles)"

  • Yelpopen

    "Review Highlights - The McLane Team - eXp Realty. “Lauren continued to offer her services, she emailed/texted just to keep me aware that she was still looking.""

  • Experience.comopen

    "The McLane Team provides full-service staging at no cost to the client, high end photography and full market preparation for all their listings ensuring they..."

Business registration
Status: active · United States

Lauren McLane, Cal DRE License #01955004, associated with eXp Realty / eXp Luxury in Walnut Creek / San Ramon, CA. Team verified on RealTrends with 2 active licensed agents.

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

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for themclaneteam.com and found zero scam reports or complaints. Instead, we found 56 verified positive client reviews on Zillow (5.0-star average), confirmed business registration with California's Department of Real Estate, and consistent positive mentions across Yelp, Experience.com, and RealTrends. Lauren McLane's professional credentials (DRE License #01955004) and team affiliation with eXp Realty are verified across multiple legitimate real estate platforms. Searches for fraud-related terms ("themclaneteam.com scam", "Lauren McLane fraud") returned only generic real estate scam warnings unrelated to this specific team or domain.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 66 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 66 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless66Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Clean
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

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
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainlauren@themclaneteam.com
Phone numbers925.722.5778
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (lauren@themclaneteam.com).
  • Phone number listed (925.722.5778).
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age8 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredMay 10, 2018
ExpiresMay 10, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 19, 2026 (64d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingA2 Hosting, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverLiteSpeed
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

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

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPA2 Hosting, Inc.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 themclaneteam.com and not a lookalike like t-hemclaneteam.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
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on themclaneteam.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • themclaneteam.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. themclaneteam.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • themclaneteam.com is 8.1 years old, registered on 5/10/2018 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • No. All 66 antivirus engines in our malware network report themclaneteam.com as clean.
  • No. themclaneteam.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • themclaneteam.com resolves to an IP operated by A2 Hosting, Inc. in US (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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around themclaneteam.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·themclaneteam.com
SAFE

The McLane Team is a legitimate, licensed real estate brokerage in California's East Bay region led by Lauren McLane (Cal DRE #01955004). The domain is 8 years old, carries clean security scans, and has 56 verified positive reviews on Zillow with no scam reports or complaints found.

This is a legitimate real estate brokerage website. You can safely contact The McLane Team for real estate services in the East Bay area. Verify the agent's California DRE license independently if desired, though the credentials provided are confirmed.

AV engines
66
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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