No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is unitedfuelco.com legit or a scam?
United Fuel Co. is a legitimate 19-year-old Illinois fuel distributor with clean scans, active business registration, and positive reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the online presence for United Fuel Co., a family-owned fuel and oil supplier serving agriculture, construction, and government clients in central Illinois. The strongest trust signal is the domain age of 7118 days combined with matching physical address, phone, and email listed in official county directories. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags while the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Evidence confirms an active woman-owned business registration plus a 4.8-star rating from 11 reviews and no complaints or scam mentions anywhere. These factors together rule out any malicious intent.
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 unitedfuelco.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- unitedfuelco.com is the website for United Fuel Co., a local fuel and oil distributor in Rantoul, IL serving Champaign, Ford, Vermilion and Piatt Counties.
- Physical address listed: 536 N. Ohio Ave, PO BOX 938, Rantoul, IL 61866; Phone: (217) 892-2083; Email: shelleywarner@unitedfuelco.com
- Facebook page: United Fuel Co., Rantoul with 69 likes, described as family-owned and locally operated.
- Listed in Rantoul Chamber of Commerce business directory and Champaign County business directory as woman-owned.
- Birdeye.com shows 4.8/5 rating based on 11 reviews for United Fuel Company.
- Domain has been active for 7118 days (~19.5 years); privacy policy published Oct 31, 2025 on site.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across multiple searches including Reddit, Trustpilot, BBB.
- Birdeyeopen
"United Fuel Company has a 4.8 star rating with 11 reviews"
Woman-owned business listed in Champaign County directory; physical address 536 N Ohio Ave, Rantoul IL; phone (217) 892-2083
Our research found United Fuel Company listed as an active woman-owned business in Champaign County, Illinois, with a 4.8-star rating on review sites and no scam reports or complaints.
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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (shelleywarner@unitedfuelco.com).
- Phone number listed ((217) 892-2083).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://unitedfuelco.com/
- 2200https://unitedfuelco.com/
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 unitedfuelco.com and not a lookalike like u-nitedfuelco.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.
Referenced Domains
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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 unitedfuelco.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- unitedfuelco.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. unitedfuelco.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- unitedfuelco.com is 19.5 years old, registered on 12/6/2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 unitedfuelco.com as clean.
- No. unitedfuelco.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- unitedfuelco.com resolves to an IP operated by Linode 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.
- 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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