Is ad-score.com legit or a scam?
Ad-score.com is a legitimate ad-fraud detection service operated by Adscore Technologies DMCC with over 11 years of domain history and no malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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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
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What our vision model saw
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 4,350 days, which is a strong indicator of a stable, long-term operation. Our antivirus network shows zero flags across 92 different security engines, and the site is not present on any major browser blocklists. The service is a known provider of traffic verification tools, often used by ad networks to filter out bots and low-quality traffic. While some users may see the domain in their browser's network logs due to its tracking-protection role, this is a functional part of its anti-fraud technology rather than a security threat. The company is legally registered in the UAE and maintains a professional presence in the industry.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ad-score.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ad-score.com (primary site www.adscore.com) is the website of Adscore Technologies DMCC, a Dubai, UAE-based company founded in 2017 providing AI-based ad fraud detection, bot detection, proxy/low-quality traffic filtering, and scraping prot
- The service claims to categorize traffic (human, proxy, low quality, bots), protect over 1B impressions per day, and is targeted at advertisers, ad networks, and publishers; it was developed by the team behind PopAds.net after 10+ years of
- Listed as a customer success story by infrastructure provider m247.com; appears in adblock filter lists (EasyList) and tracking protection discussions due to its fingerprinting/JavaScript usage on partner sites for traffic validation.
- Subdomains such as js.ad-score.com, data.ad-score.com, and img-*.ad-score.com are used for tracking/fingerprinting and have been rated as legitimate/safe by ScamAdviser.
- Trustpilot page for adscore.com shows very limited reviews (2 reviews noted in one crawl, average around 2.9 in another); no widespread user complaints or scam reports found across web searches, Reddit, or review aggregators.
- Domain age provided as 4350 days (~11.9 years) aligns with operational history tied to PopAds.net (active since ~2010); no negative scam reports, fraud allegations, or significant complaints identified in targeted searches.
- Company LinkedIn and ZoomInfo profiles confirm focus on advertising verification and anti-fraud tools; no business dissolution or red flags in registration data.
- m247.comopen
"Adscore is a global, advertising verification provider specialising in using AI functionality to improve online advertising performance"
- adscore.com FAQopen
"Adscore has been created by the team behind the PopAds.net advertising network. While managing and operating the network for 10+ years, we have seen and fought all kinds of fraud."
Adscore Technologies DMCC, Dubai (DMCC free zone company), founded 2017, 2-10 employees, privately held. LinkedIn and customer success stories confirm existence and operations.
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 ad-score.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ad-score.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ad-score.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc. · Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, expiring in 100 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ad-score.com is 11.9 years old, registered on 8/1/2014 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 ad-score.com as clean.
- No. ad-score.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ad-score.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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.
- Yes. ad-score.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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