SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is www.europa-it-search.com legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Established UK IT recruitment agency with 8-year-old domain, clean security scans, and active business registration.

Cross-checked against 9 independent sources — none raised a concern
www.europa-it-search.comScanned Jul 15, 2026
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 58·MT 78
Screenshot of www.europa-it-search.comSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 8 years oldEncrypted connection
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
8 years old
Registered May 29, 2018

Website Preview

Screenshot of www.europa-it-search.com
SCAN-TIME CAPTURE
www.europa-it-search.com

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

50
/ 100
Visual inspection

Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks

Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.

Visual similarity50/100

What our vision model saw

1 signal

Screenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust78/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain www.europa-it-search.com was registered in May 2018 and has remained active for over eight years. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and browser blocklists show no flags. The hosting IP carries an elevated abuse score, yet the page itself loads legitimate recruitment content with no login forms or credential-harvesting elements. Independent records confirm an active UK company registered in Reading with the same name and focus on IT placements. No scam reports or complaints appear in our web research. The combination of age, clean technical signals, and verified business registration outweighs the single infrastructure concern.
Risk Factors
3
  • Hosting IP shows elevated abuse score of 82/100 with 36 prior reports.
  • No postal address is displayed on the homepage.
  • All contact emails use external domains rather than the site domain.
Positive Signals
4
  • Domain registered 8.1 years ago in May 2018.
  • Zero detections from 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Active UK business registration confirmed with physical office in Reading.
  • Site content matches legitimate IT recruitment activities with verifiable client placements.
The full analysis

Page Content

The site presents itself as Europa Search, an IT recruitment consultancy operating across the USA and Europe. It lists divisions in AI, Cloud, DevOps, and Development, along with recent placements at a Nordic bank and a European FMCG client. Ten phone numbers appear but no postal address is visible on the homepage. The page loads external resources from Wix infrastructure and Sentry for error tracking.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on IP 34.149.87.45 with an abuse score of 82/100 and 36 prior reports. SSL is valid and issued by Google Trust Services with 33 days remaining. One redirect hop occurs within the same domain. External scripts load from parastorage.com and wixstatic.com, consistent with a Wix-hosted site.

Domain History

The domain was registered on 29 May 2018 through Tucows Domains Inc. and is 8.1 years old. WHOIS privacy protection is disabled. No recent ownership changes are recorded in the available data.

Web Reputation

Our web research found no scam reports or consumer complaints. Business registration records confirm an active UK company based in Reading (RG1 1SB) operating as an IT recruitment agency. The company posts job listings on major recruitment platforms and maintains a professional presence consistent with legitimate operations.

What this means for you

The site shows the profile of an established recruitment business rather than a fraudulent operation. Visitors can review the listed contact numbers and cross-check the UK company registration before engaging with any recruitment process.

AI Recommendation
The site appears legitimate for recruitment purposes. Verify the UK company registration and use the listed phone numbers before sharing personal details or CVs.
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 www.europa-it-search.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · United Kingdom
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
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • Europa Search is a legitimate IT recruitment agency operating in the UK and Europe.
  • The domain has been registered since May 2018.
  • The company maintains an active presence on job boards like Indeed and TotalJobs, where they frequently post recruitment consultant roles.
  • The business is physically located in Reading, UK.
  • Online discussions regarding the agency are typical of the recruitment industry, focusing on salary negotiations and recruiter performance rather than scam activity.
  • The website is indexed by professional platforms like RemoteHub and is not flagged as malicious by security scanners.
Business registration
Status: active · United Kingdom

Europa Search is a UK-based recruitment agency with an office in Reading (RG1 1SB) specializing in IT and data consultancy recruitment.

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 www.europa-it-search.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. Business registration records confirm an active UK recruitment agency in Reading. The company appears on job boards posting legitimate consultant roles, and online discussions focus on standard recruitment topics rather than fraud concerns.

Domain Timeline

  1. May 29, 2018
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 8.1 years old today.

  2. Jul 15, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

www.europa-it-search.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious57Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
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.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
ListedCheck ↗

Technical Details

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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

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 contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers115-39571
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (115-39571).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age8 years old
RegistrarTucows Domains Inc.
RegisteredMay 29, 2018
ExpiresMay 29, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WR1
ExpiresAug 18, 2026 (33d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingGoogle LLC
Server locationUS
Web serverPepyaka
Platform / CMSWix

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://www.europa-it-search.com/
  • 2200https://www.europa-it-search.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score82%
Reports on file36
ISPGoogle LLC
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

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 www.europa-it-search.com and not a lookalike like w-ww.europa-it-search.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·www.europa-it-search.com
SAFE

Europa Search is a UK-based IT recruitment agency. The domain is 8.1 years old with clean scans and a verified UK business registration.

The site appears legitimate for recruitment purposes. Verify the UK company registration and use the listed phone numbers before sharing personal details or CVs.

AV engines
92
Domain age
8 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, 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 www.europa-it-search.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 8.1 years old, registered on May 29, 2018 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • www.europa-it-search.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from www.europa-it-search.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from www.europa-it-search.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report www.europa-it-search.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — www.europa-it-search.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • www.europa-it-search.com is 8.1 years old, registered on May 29, 2018 through Tucows Domains Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
  • Yes — www.europa-it-search.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, valid for another 33 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • www.europa-it-search.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 15, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about www.europa-it-search.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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