Is thestreet.com legit or a scam?
TheStreet is a highly established financial news authority with nearly 30 years of history and a clean security profile across our antivirus network.
Analysis Summary
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
The domain has been active for over 10,000 days and is a recognized name in financial journalism. Our analysis shows zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and no reports of malicious activity. While historical corporate records mention a 2012 SEC settlement regarding accounting practices, this relates to corporate governance rather than the safety of the website for users. The site maintains a high global traffic rank and is operated by a known parent company, The Arena Group. There are no signs of phishing, credential harvesting, or malware distribution.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for thestreet.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- thestreet.com is a well-known financial news and stock analysis website founded in 1996 by Jim Cramer and Marty Peretz; over 28-30 years old with high traffic (Tranco rank ~500).
- Subsidiary of The Arena Group (formerly Maven); provides free content and paid subscription services like TheStreet Pro.
- In 2012, the SEC charged TheStreet Inc. and three executives with accounting fraud related to inflated revenues in 2008 from a subsidiary (Promotions.com); the company and executives settled without admitting or denying the allegations and
- Scamadviser concludes it is "legit and safe to use and not a scam website" with average to good trust score, though notes owner hides identity via WHOIS proxy and some negative reviews.
- BBB profile shows A+ rating, not accredited, business started 1996, incorporated 1998 in New York; no complaints listed in profile.
- Trustpilot has a small number of reviews (9) with low overall score (~2.1/5); mixed user feedback on content quality and stock ratings performance.
- No recent consumer scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware associations found; site itself publishes articles warning about scams and fraud.
- Corporate Crime Reporteropen
"SEC Charges TheStreet, Three Execs, with Accounting Fraud. The SEC alleged that TheStreet Inc., which operates the website TheStreet.com, filed false financial reports throughout 2008"
- Forbesopen
"SEC today said it has charged online financial news site TheStreet and three of its executives with accounting fraud"
Incorporated May 4, 1998 in New York as TheStreet, Inc. (formerly TheStreet.com, Inc.); subsidiary of The Arena Group; founded 1996; BBB rating A+ (not accredited); 30 years in business
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 thestreet.com and not a lookalike like t-hestreet.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 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 thestreet.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- thestreet.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. thestreet.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2, expiring in 173 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- thestreet.com is 28.9 years old, registered on 8/8/1997 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. 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 thestreet.com as clean.
- No. thestreet.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- thestreet.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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.
- Yes. thestreet.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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