Is adegascar.online legit or a scam?
Newly registered APK piracy site masquerading as a free app/game download platform, flagged as phishing by multiple security vendors.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Fake shop — do not order
Domain is only 44 days old. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
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MT Intelligence
The domain adegascar.online is only 44 days old with no legitimate business registration, contact information, or verifiable company presence. One antivirus engine flagged it as phishing, and closely related domains (adescargar.net and adescargar.online) are consistently flagged by security tools as suspicious or phishing. The site's primary promotion appears on Instagram Reels recommending it for downloading paid apps and games for free — a classic piracy and malware-distribution pattern. The complete absence of business details, combined with the age, the phishing classification, and the piracy-focused marketing, indicates this is a malicious operation designed to distribute compromised or malware-laden APK files.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for adegascar.online, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain adegascar.online is 44 days old per input data; no direct WHOIS results found in searches.
- Very limited web presence; exact domain "adegascar.online" appears almost exclusively in Instagram Reels as a recommended site for downloading paid apps/games for free (e.g. "websites you should be using... adegascar.online turbo.ai").
- Closely related domains adescargar.net and adescargar.online are flagged by security tools: PCRisk reports 39/100 trust score with 7/91 engines flagging as potentially suspicious/malicious; one report explicitly flags adescargar.online as "
- Gridinsoft classified adescargar.net as phishing with 1/100 trust score.
- Reddit threads question if adescargar sites are safe or scams, with one post labeling a similar domain high risk despite some scanner scores around 93/100.
- ScamDoc gives adescargar.online (older registration from 2021) a 93% good trust score with no user reviews; owner hidden in WHOIS.
- No business registration, positive user reviews, or official company information located.
Security scanners and community reports consistently flag this domain and its close variants (adescargar.net, adescargar.online) as phishing or suspicious. PCRisk reported 7 out of 91 engines flagging adescargar.online as potentially malicious with a 39/100 trust score. Gridinsoft classified adescargar.net as phishing with a 1/100 trust score. Reddit users in r/ScamChecker questioned the safety of similar adescargar domains, with one post labeling a variant as high-risk. The site is actively promoted on Instagram Reels as a platform for downloading paid apps and games for free — a known vector for malware and piracy distribution. No positive reviews, business registration, or legitimate company information was found.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 44 days old — very young for a shop.
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 44 days old — very young for a shop.
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with adegascar.online
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
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 flags adegascar.online as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — adegascar.online scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. adegascar.online presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- adegascar.online is 1 month old, registered on 5/1/2026 through Dynadot Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 97 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged adegascar.online as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. adegascar.online is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- adegascar.online resolves to an IP operated by Trellian Pty. Limited in US (usage type: Commercial). 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 14, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around adegascar.online 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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