Is adscale.de a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on adscale.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is adscale.de safe to use?

adscale.de 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.

Does adscale.de have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. adscale.de presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 120 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has adscale.de been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report adscale.de as clean.

Is adscale.de on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. adscale.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is adscale.de hosted?

adscale.de resolves to an IP operated by A100 ROW GmbH in DE (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.

Is adscale.de a well-known website?

Yes. adscale.de 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.

How often is the adscale.de report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around adscale.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is adscale.de legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 91/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official corporate platform for Ströer SSP, a major German advertising network with a clean security record and verified business registration.

Why we trust it

Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines in our network.Verified business registration for Ströer SSP GmbH in the German commercial register (HRB 166609).Long-standing domain history dating back to 2007.

adscale.deScanned 1h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 89·MT 92

Warning signals (1)

Redirects to another domain

Positive signals (4)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

SAFE

No threats detected

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

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

adscale.de

1Professional corporate branding for Ströer visible in header

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

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.

/ 100

No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

The page displays a professional corporate layout for a legitimate media and advertising company with standard compliance features like a cookie consent banner.

Visual risk0/100

What our vision model saw

6 signals

Professional corporate branding for Ströer visible in header

Standard Cookiebot consent management modal overlaying content

High-quality original photography and professional typography

Clear navigation elements including language switcher and search icon

Legitimate business content regarding Supply Side Platform (SSP) services

No urgency tactics, fake badges, or suspicious data entry forms

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The domain is a long-standing asset of the Ströer media group, one of Germany's largest advertising companies. Our analysis confirms it is registered to Ströer SSP GmbH in Munich and has been active since 2007. The technical scan shows a perfect safety record with zero flags from over 90 antivirus engines. The page content is professional, focusing on programmatic advertising services for publishers and advertisers. There are no high-risk indicators like urgency tactics, fake forms, or suspicious redirects.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The site serves as a professional B2B portal for the Ströer Supply-Side Platform (SSP). It provides detailed information on yield management, real-time advertising, and brand safety for digital publishers. The layout uses high-quality corporate branding and includes a standard cookie consent manager.

Infrastructure

The domain is hosted on secure infrastructure with a valid SSL certificate issued by Amazon. It successfully handles traffic through a legitimate redirect chain that aligns with the company's rebranding from AdScale to Ströer SSP.

Domain History

The domain has a significant history, originally belonging to AdScale GmbH before its acquisition and integration into the Ströer group. It maintains a high traffic index consistent with a major European ad-tech provider.

Web Reputation

The site has a clean reputation across major security databases. While some ad-blocking tools may flag the domain due to its nature as an advertising server, this is a functional classification rather than a security threat. No consumer fraud reports or scam complaints were found.

Risk Factors

The domain is sometimes included in ad-blocker lists because it serves advertising content, which is normal for an SSP.
No direct contact email is listed on the landing page, though it links to the main Ströer corporate contact sections.

Positive Signals

Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines in our network.
Verified business registration for Ströer SSP GmbH in the German commercial register (HRB 166609).
Long-standing domain history dating back to 2007.
Professional visual design with no deceptive elements or clone patterns.
Valid SSL encryption and secure hosting environment.

AI Recommendation

This site is safe to use for its intended business purposes. No action is required as it is a legitimate corporate platform.

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 adscale.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · Germany

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

5 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

adscale.de hosts/redirects to or serves as the domain for Ströer SSP, a legitimate supply-side platform (SSP) for programmatic advertising (display, video, mobile) operated by Ströer SSP GmbH in Germany.
The company was originally founded in 2007 as AdScale GmbH (or adscale GmbH), acquired by Ströer around 2012-2013 (91% stake reported in 2012), and officially renamed Ströer SSP GmbH in 2016.
Registered at Amtsgericht München under HRB 166609; active German GmbH with stated capital of €100,000 at founding; address in Munich; part of the large Ströer media group.
The site promotes yield management, private deals/auctions, RTB, brand safety, and ad fraud protection for publishers and advertisers. Official Ströer pages link to or reference it.
A separate Israeli/US company at adscale.com (AI advertising platform for Shopify/ecommerce on Meta/Google) exists and has mixed reviews (high Shopify rating ~4.6/5 but Trustpilot 2.5/5 for www.adscale.de listing and some predatory billing
No scam reports, fraud alerts, or significant complaints found specifically for adscale.de or Ströer SSP GmbH. It appears in tracker/adblock lists as an adtech domain (normal for SSPs).
Malwarebytes flags it in some contexts for tracking (typical for advertising domains) but does not classify it as malicious.

Business registration

Status: active · Germany

Registered as Ströer SSP GmbH (formerly AdScale GmbH / adscale GmbH), HRB 166609 at Amtsgericht München. Founded 2007, renamed to Ströer SSP GmbH in 2016. Address: St.-Martin-Str. 106, 81669 München. Owned by Ströer SE & Co. KGaA. Managing directors include Stephan Kern.

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and business registries for adscale.de and found no scam reports or complaints. The site is officially registered as Ströer SSP GmbH (formerly AdScale GmbH) at the Munich District Court. It is a well-known entity in the European digital advertising industry with a verified physical address in Munich.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

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.

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

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles2

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No phone number listed on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.

Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.2

IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04

ExpiresOct 28, 2026 (120d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingA100 ROW GmbH

Server locationDE

Web servercloudflare

Platform / CMSTYPO3 CMS

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1302http://adscale.de/
2302https://adscale.de/
3301https://stroeer.de/ssp/cross-domain
4301https://www.stroeer.de/ssp/cross-domain
5200https://www.stroeer.de/werben-mit-stroeer/onlinewerbung/crossmedia/stroeer-ssp/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPA100 ROW GmbH

Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 adscale.de and not a lookalike like a-dscale.de.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
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Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

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

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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 adscale.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
adscale.de 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. adscale.de presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 120 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 adscale.de as clean.
No. adscale.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
adscale.de resolves to an IP operated by A100 ROW GmbH in DE (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. adscale.de 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.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around adscale.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·adscale.de

SAFE

This is the official website for Ströer SSP, a legitimate German advertising technology platform. It is a well-established corporate site with no signs of fraudulent activity or malicious intent. You can safely browse this page.

This site is safe to use for its intended business purposes. No action is required as it is a legitimate corporate platform.

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