Is aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in legit or a scam?
Official Maharashtra Government portal for citizen services, operated by a verified joint venture with TCS and confirmed by multiple government sources.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page displays a standard server-side error message, providing no visual content to assess for scam patterns.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders an HTTP Error 503 Service Unavailable message
MT Intelligence
The domain is a verified gov.in subdomain, which is strictly reserved for Indian government entities. Our research confirms it is the primary platform for 'Aaple Sarkar' services, managed by MahaOnline Limited—a joint venture between the state government and Tata Consultancy Services. While the site occasionally experiences technical downtime or server errors, these are infrastructure issues rather than security threats. Multiple official platforms, including the national UMANG app, link directly to this URL as the authoritative source. We found no evidence of malicious intent or phishing patterns.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in is the official Aaple Sarkar portal of the Maharashtra Government for online citizen services such as certificates, domicile, income, and more.
- Operated by MahaOnline Limited, a joint venture between Government of Maharashtra and TCS (established 2010).
- Multiple official and third-party sources (gov.in subdomains, 99acres.com, UMANG, government Facebook posts) explicitly list https://aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in/ as the official website.
- Page content shows Maharashtra Government branding (महाराष्ट्र शासन), lists departmental services, provides 24x7 helpline 1800 120 8040, and notes migration of some services to MAITRI portal.
- Reddit thread criticizes the site's design and usability ("Website is a joke"), with complaints about registration difficulties.
- YouTube video titled "Aaple Sarkar Mahaonline Complaint" describes unresolved application for document copy after 6+ months.
- Some web filters flag the domain under "Malicious Websites" category, but this appears inconsistent with official government status and lack of scam reports.
- 99acres.comopen
"The Maharashtra Government has devised Aaple Sarkar, an online portal to help citizens apply for civic services online. ... official Aaple Sarkar portal: aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in"
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
- UMANG.gov.inopen
"Maharashtra government has come with the Aaple Sarkar Application through which the citizens will be able to register themselves and apply online for various certificates. ... Website https://aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in/"
MahaOnline Limited is a joint venture (since 2010) between Government of Maharashtra (26%) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS, 74%). Operates official citizen service portals including Aaple Sarkar.
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.
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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 aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in as clean.
- No. aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in resolves to an IP operated by Mahaonline Limited in IN (usage type: Government). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 29, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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