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Evidence page · Updated July 26, 2026

Checking whether NorthClaim is legit? Good. Here's the evidence.

Automated "scam checkers" flag every young domain — ours included. The real security authorities disagree: Google, VirusTotal's 91 vendors, and Sucuri all report northclaim.com clean — and the site claiming we have "negative reviews" can't show you one.

Google: no unsafe content VirusTotal: 0 / 91 Sucuri: no malware
Run the 60-second check See the "reviews" claim

The 60-second check

Don't trust us. Look at their screens — then click through.

The tools security professionals actually use, showing northclaim.com. Every card opens the live result. Captured July 24, 2026.

Google Safe Browsing result for northclaim.com: No unsafe content found Tap image for the full capture
Google Safe Browsing
No unsafe content found

The database behind the red warnings Chrome shows billions of users. We're not in it.

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VirusTotal result for northclaim.com: no security vendors flagged this domain as malicious, 0 of 91 Tap image for the full capture
VirusTotal
0 of 91 vendors flag it

Ninety-one independent security vendors scan the domain. Zero call it malicious.

See the live VirusTotal report →
Sucuri SiteCheck result for northclaim.com: no malware found, site is not blacklisted Tap image for the full capture
Sucuri SiteCheck
No malware · not blacklisted

Independent website-security firm. No malware, nine blacklists checked, none listing us.

Run the live Sucuri scan →
The paper trail: registered US LLC · domain paid through March 2033 Delaware registry → Official .com record →

The claim that worries people most

"Negative reviews"? Ask them to show you one.

ScamAdviser's report is where most of the fear comes from. Read what it claims — then look at what it actually provides.

What ScamAdviser claims
"This website has received negative reviews."
"…a suspiciously high number of reviews."
"We found a lot of reviews for this company."

Captured July 24, 2026, from its public report on northclaim.com.

What its report actually shows

No reviewer. No review text. No star rating. No date. No count. No platform. No link.

The report displays nothing that identifies even one of the reviews it says it found. The same panel also notes the site is rated safe by DNSFilter.

Another scanner, Gridinsoft, looked at the same site two weeks earlier and said the opposite: NorthClaim has "no established public user-review history." Both statements cannot be true.

The simple truth: NorthClaim launched in March 2026. There is no public review history yet — negative or positive. Software generated both claims. Neither talked to a customer, or to us.

ScamAdviser highlights claiming negative reviews and a suspiciously high number of reviews, with no reviews shown
ScamAdviser's claims, captured July 24, 2026. No supporting reviews appear anywhere in the report. Tap to enlarge.
ScamAdviser section saying it found a lot of reviews without identifying any
"We found a lot of reviews" — none identified. Tap to enlarge, or verify on the live report or Gridinsoft's.

Know what you're reading

Those warnings come from software, not investigators.

Three things worth knowing about "scam checker" pages before you let one make this decision for you.

01

Automated scores, by their own admission

ScamAdviser's methodology page says its score is computed by an algorithm, is "not a verdict," automatically penalizes any domain under six months old, and can produce false positives for legitimate new sites. That is our exact profile: a new domain.

Read their own explainer →
02

The report pages are businesses

They earn money from ads and affiliate commissions. Their reports about us carried the "COUNTY RECORDS" pop-up and "DOWNLOAD EXTENSION" ad shown below; one doubles as a pitch for the scanner's own anti-malware product.

See the captures below →
03

Their own details contradict their headlines

One report's summary says "malware or phishing" while its own detail table labels those rows Spam, with 24 of 27 providers clean. Another lists us in Iceland while its own technical panel shows California. The details quietly disagree with the scary headline.

Full claim-by-claim breakdown →

See it for yourself: ads dressed up as part of the report.

Both captures are from the scanner pages warning people about us.

Pop-up on ScamAdviser styled as an official County Records consent prompt, served by a third-party ad network
On ScamAdviser, July 26, 2026: a pop-up styled like an official records-access prompt, floating over the report. It isn't ScamAdviser — the "I Agree" button opens an affiliate tracking link for TruthFinder, a paid background-check product. We closed it instead. Tap to enlarge.
Scam Detector report showing a large Download Extension advertisement above NorthClaim company details
On Scam Detector, July 24, 2026: a green "DOWNLOAD EXTENSION" ad placed between the trust score and our company details. We did not click or install it. Tap to enlarge.

The one thing they get right

Yes, we're new. Here's why that's the whole story.

NorthClaim exists because of a Canadian law that only took effect in December 2025. A company built for that law cannot have a decade of history — and "new" is the main thing these scoring algorithms punish.

Nov 20, 2025

Bill C-3 receives royal assent

Canada amends the Citizenship Act.

Dec 15, 2025

The law takes effect

IRCC begins applying the new citizenship-by-descent rules.

Mar 24, 2026

northclaim.com is created

Registered three months after the rules took effect — and paid through 2033.

Today

IRCC estimates ~19 months

Government processing takes longer than the company has existed — so final outcomes, and reviews of them, don't exist yet. From anyone.

Verify the dates: official Bill C-3 announcement · official IRCC processing-time tool. Newness is a fair reason to verify a company. It is not, by itself, evidence of fraud — which is why everything on this page links to sources you can check.

Verify the business, not just the domain

A real company, with terms you can read before paying.

This is what an actual scam doesn't give you: a registered legal entity, a named founder, published policies, inspectable work, and a phone that a real person answers.

Registered US company

NorthClaim LLC · 8 The Green, Suite R, Dover, Delaware 19901.

Search Delaware's official registry →

A named founder

Kevin Paradis is publicly named, with a verifiable Association of Professional Genealogists membership.

View the APG directory profile →

Inspectable work

Redacted portal views, archive correspondence, and delivery records from real cases.

Inspect the proof page →

Published terms & refund policy

Read exactly what you're buying and how refunds work — before paying anything.

Refunds →  Terms →  Privacy →

Transparent pricing

Research, records, evidence organization, and a complete application package — priced upfront.

See pricing →

A person, not a chatbot

Call or text the founder directly with any question on this page.

Text (305) 206-7840 →

What NorthClaim does

  • Researches your family line and identifies the Canadian connection.
  • Locates and coordinates the genealogical and vital records.
  • Organizes the evidence and prepares your application package.
  • Supports you while you review, sign, and submit it.

What NorthClaim will never claim

  • We are not the Government of Canada, IRCC, or a law firm.
  • We don't make citizenship decisions or guarantee approval.
  • We can't speed up government processing or get special access.
  • Anyone who promises those things — avoid them.

For the thorough

The full claim-by-claim breakdown.

Every disputed scanner claim, its exact wording, and what the evidence on its own page shows. Screenshots captured July 24, 2026. Open any item.

Gridinsoft: "malware or phishing blacklist detections" Category error

Gridinsoft's summary describes two external provider results as "multiple malware or phishing blacklist detections." Its own detail table labels both rows Spam — a different category (see Sophos's own category definitions). The third headline warning is Gridinsoft's own flag. 24 of 27 providers: clean.

Gridinsoft provider table showing two Spam labels and 24 clean providers
Gridinsoft's own table: one Gridinsoft warning, two "Spam" labels, 24 clean. Live report ↗
Gridinsoft: hosting country "Iceland" Stale / contradicted by its own page

The summary lists Iceland. Gridinsoft's own technical panel on the same page places the live endpoint in Walnut, California, US, with valid TLS. The likely source of the Iceland value is old WHOIS-privacy data — Namecheap's privacy provider is based in Iceland. Current registry data shows US registrant information and Cloudflare.

Gridinsoft technical panel showing a California US endpoint with valid TLS
Same report, its own technical panel: California, US.
Old registration data: Namecheap, expires 2027, unsigned DNSSEC Stale

Scanner pages still show Namecheap, a March 2027 expiration, and unsigned DNSSEC. The current .com registry record shows Cloudflare as registrar, expiration March 24, 2033, and signed DNSSEC. The registry changed after their scans; the data is stale, and stale data is what these scores are built on. Check the live registry record ↗

Scam Detector: "phishing and spamming activity… stay away" Contradicts its own page
Scam Detector's report claiming phishing and spamming activity, highlighted in red, above the same report's own data panel showing not detected by any blacklist engine and valid HTTPS found, highlighted in green
The exact contradiction, highlighted. Top: the claim and the "staying away" recommendation. Bottom: the same report's own data panel. Tap to enlarge, or check the live report yourself.

Scam Detector's narrative says its algorithm detected high-risk phishing/spamming activity — while its own data panel on the same page reports "Not detected by any blacklist engine" and "Valid HTTPS Found." It identifies no malicious URL, phishing page, incident date, or affected account. Its report also displayed the third-party "DOWNLOAD EXTENSION" advertisement shown above, and used the stale Namecheap/2027 registration data. We make no claim about the advertised products beyond the fact that the ads were displayed.

"This website is very young" Accurate — see the timeline above

True: the domain was created March 24, 2026. A new company should be verified — that's what this page is for. ScamAdviser's own methodology says domains under six months automatically score lower and that legitimate new sites can be false-positived. Age is the input; "scam" is the algorithm's guess.

The clean results in full Current checks

Collected July 24, 2026. Point-in-time evidence, not a guarantee — no honest company promises a website can never be compromised.

Google Transparency Report showing no unsafe content found for northclaim.com
Google Safe Browsing: no unsafe content. Live ↗
VirusTotal showing zero of 91 vendors flagging northclaim.com as malicious
VirusTotal: 0 / 91 malicious. Live ↗
Sucuri SiteCheck showing no malware found and not blacklisted
Sucuri: no malware, not blacklisted. Live ↗
Official IRCC tool showing about 19 months processing time
IRCC's official estimate: ~19 months. Live ↗

Method: we quote reports exactly, date every capture, link every live source, and label stale data as stale rather than calling anyone a fraud. We don't claim these scanner companies are scams, that no review of us exists anywhere, or that clean scans guarantee the future. Spot an error? Send the source and exact statement to support@northclaim.com — material corrections get dated on this page.

Still skeptical? Keep being skeptical.

Just aim it at evidence instead of an algorithm. Click the sources above, read the terms, inspect the work — then ask a real person the hard questions.

Text Kevin Call (305) 206-7840