Is vivesmarts.com safe?
http://vivesmarts.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Spanish casino-comparison page run by an undisclosed operator on a domain with a documented record of wrong-item deliveries and unanswered refunds
vivesmarts.com now publishes a Spanish-language ranking of "new betting houses 2026" with bonus amounts, star ratings and "Jugar Ahora" buttons, and its own privacy policy says it shows advertising through affiliate networks. The same domain carries a large body of independent consumer complaints — a 1.3/5 an independent review platform's rating, buyers who ordered glucose meters and received cheap pulse oximeters, and a customer who says nobody answers about a return — plus a consumer-organisation complaint file. The legal pages are titled "Cronosapiens" and route contact to a cronosapiens.es mailbox, and no gambling licence, company address or phone is disclosed. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 7 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Vivesmarts is rated "Bad" with 1.3 / 5 on Trustpilot"
- ModerateThe site is branded Vivesmarts but its privacy text refers to Cronosapiens.es and the contact page gives a cronosapiens.es mailbox; no licence, company address or phone is disclosed.
- ModerateThe privacy policy says the site shows advertising through affiliate networks, and the page ranks casinos with bonus offers and Play Now buttons.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "pedí un glucómetro y mandaron un oximetro por 49.99 euros"
- ModerateA five-star "Verificado por 2,993 community members" badge appears with no named verifying body or methodology.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Vivesmarts.com 可疑商店"
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning, TLS is valid, the domain is about 647 days old and the hosting IP has a 0/100 abuse score.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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- Report the site
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
vivesmarts.com now publishes a Spanish-language ranking of "new betting houses 2026" with bonus amounts, star ratings and "Jugar Ahora" buttons, and its own privacy policy says it shows advertising through affiliate networks. The same domain carries a large body of independent consumer complaints — a 1.3/5 an independent review platform's rating, buyers who ordered glucose meters and received cheap pulse oximeters, and a customer who says nobody answers about a return — plus a consumer-organisation complaint file. The legal pages are titled "Cronosapiens" and route contact to a cronosapiens.es mailbox, and no gambling licence, company address or phone is disclosed. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
The domain's own complaint record describes wrong products and no refunds
Independent review research on this exact domain is strongly negative: an independent review platform rates vivesmarts.com "Bad" at 1.3 out of 5, and the individual reviews describe ordering a glucose meter and receiving a cheap AliExpress pulse oximeter instead, and a buyer who collected an order and then found nobody answering to arrange a return.
A second review repeats the same substitution — a glucose meter ordered, an oxygen-measuring device delivered — and a consumer organisation's public complaints list carries a refund request against the same shop. A further review calls the operation fraudulent and describes two glucose meters replaced by blood-oxygen devices.
A saved scanner analysis also classifies the URL as a suspicious shop and cites the low an independent review platform's score across 64 reviews. That analysis is older saved evidence rather than a fresh check, but it points at the same complaint pattern rather than a technical infection.
What the site publishes today: an affiliate casino ranking with an unverifiable trust badge
The live page is a ranked list of betting and casino brands — for example a crypto-friendly brand at #9 offering a €150 bonus with Bitcoin withdrawals, and a casino at #10 offering a 100% match up to €500 plus 200 free spins — each with a "Jugar Ahora" (Play Now) button, payment-method badges and an 18+ responsible-gambling line. The privacy policy states the site shows advertising content through affiliate networks, so those buttons are the page's revenue path.
Directly under the intro sits an orange "Ver el top Casas de Apuestas Nuevas" button followed by a five-star badge reading "Verificado por 2,993 community members". No verifying body, methodology or link to such a community is shown, so the badge is an unsupported trust claim pushing visitors into the ranked list.
The site describes its topic as analysis and comparison of new betting houses and names Carlos Medina Ruiz as the data controller, but the privacy text refers to Cronosapiens.es collecting data on this site and the contact page gives a mailbox on cronosapiens.es. No gambling licence, registration number, company address or phone appears, and the only outbound links captured in the commercial graph are responsible-gambling resources rather than the casino destinations themselves.
Clean connection checks do not offset the operator picture
Nothing technical was flagged at scan time: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the domain is roughly 647 days old and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 26 saved reports. No malicious redirects, popups, downloads or notification prompts were observed.
The risk here is commercial and operator-level, not malware. A gambling comparison page that earns affiliate commission, hides who runs it behind a second brand's legal pages, and sits on a domain with a documented history of substituting cheap products and ignoring refund requests gives a visitor no accountable party if a bonus, deposit or payout goes wrong. The responsible-gambling links and 18+ notices are a positive touch but do not identify or vouch for the operator.
Why the score is 38
3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Vivesmarts is rated "Bad" with 1.3 / 5 on Trustpilot".
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googlegambling
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Dark-themed page with a 'Vivesmarts' wordmark top-left and a nav bar reading Inicio, Apuestas Sin DNI, Casas Apuestas Sin Licencia, Nuevas. Large headline 'Casas de Apuestas Nuevas 2026 con Métodos de Pago Rápidos' with a 'Publicado: 25 junio 2026 · Actualizado: 25 junio 2026' date line. Orange call-to-action button 'Ver el top Casas de Apuestas Nuevas →' directly below the intro paragraph. Five-star row with the text 'Verificado por 2,993 community members' beneath the CTA. Intro text claims the listed new betting houses arrived with an official DGOJ licence and mentions Bizum, PayPal and Apple Pay payment methods.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Dark-themed page with a 'Vivesmarts' wordmark top-left and a nav bar reading Inicio, Apuestas Sin DNI, Casas Apuestas Sin Licencia, Nuevas.
- 02
Large headline 'Casas de Apuestas Nuevas 2026 con Métodos de Pago Rápidos' with a 'Publicado: 25 junio 2026 · Actualizado: 25 junio 2026' date line.
- 03
Orange call-to-action button 'Ver el top Casas de Apuestas Nuevas →' directly below the intro paragraph.
- 04
Five-star row with the text 'Verificado por 2,993 community members' beneath the CTA.
- 05
Intro text claims the listed new betting houses arrived with an official DGOJ licence and mentions Bizum, PayPal and Apple Pay payment methods.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Casas de Apuestas Nuevas 2026: Las Más Recomendadas en ES
- Meta description
El panorama del juego online en España evoluciona a gran velocidad, y cada temporada trae consigo plataformas deportivas que buscan conquistar a los usuari
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacidad/Read
- Contact page/contacto/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Casas de Apuestas Nuevas 2026: Las Más Recomendadas en ES
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
7 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Crypto Casino & Gambling Fraud
Service and business model
Gambling
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 013 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Vivesmarts is rated "Bad" with 1.3 / 5 on Trustpilot"
- 023 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "pedí un glucómetro y mandaron un oximetro por 49.99 euros"
- 031 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Web research findings
Independent findings for vivesmarts.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustpilotopen
"Vivesmarts is rated "Bad" with 1.3 / 5 on Trustpilot"
- Trustpilotopen
"Pedimos un glucómetro y nos mandaron un oxímetro de aliexpress de 2eur"
- Trustpilotopen
"lo recogí y ahora nadie me contesta para hacer la devolución"
- Gridinsoftopen
"Vivesmarts.com 可疑商店"
- Gridinsoftopen
"该网站在 Trustpilot 上评分较低 (1.3)，基于 64 条评价"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainvivesmarts.com
- Redirects tovivesmarts.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesbegambleaware.org · gamblingtherapy.org
Domain Timeline
- Jan 28, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.7 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 7, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (carlos@vivesmarts.com).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for vivesmarts.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://vivesmarts.com/
- 2200https://vivesmarts.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Vivesmarts is rated "Bad" with 1.3 / 5 on Trustpilot" · The site is branded Vivesmarts but its privacy text refers to Cronosapiens.es and the contact page gives a cronosapiens.es mailbox; no licence, company address or phone is disclosed.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Independent research | 7 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Independent research
- Result7 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is vivesmarts.com a scam or a legit casino?
Is vivesmarts.com safe to use?
I already deposited money on vivesmarts.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from vivesmarts.com?
Is vivesmarts.com a licensed, regulated casino?
How do I report vivesmarts.com?
vivesmarts.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has vivesmarts.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is vivesmarts.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the vivesmarts.com domain?
Does vivesmarts.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the vivesmarts.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Spanish casino-comparison page run by an undisclosed operator on a domain with a documented record of wrong-item deliveries and unanswered refunds
vivesmarts.com now publishes a Spanish-language ranking of "new betting houses 2026" with bonus amounts, star ratings and "Jugar Ahora" buttons, and its own privacy policy says it shows advertising through affiliate networks. The same domain carries a large body of independent consumer complaints — a 1.3/5 an independent review platform's rating, buyers who ordered glucose meters and received cheap pulse oximeters, and a customer who says nobody answers about a return — plus a consumer-organisation complaint file. The legal pages are titled "Cronosapiens" and route contact to a cronosapiens.es mailbox, and no gambling licence, company address or phone is disclosed. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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