Warning signs detected
African classifieds site with 2015 Singapore registration but repeated complaints of fake job ads and user scams on the platform. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is afribaba.com legit or a scam?
African classifieds site with 2015 Singapore registration but repeated complaints of fake job ads and user scams on the platform.
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
MT Intelligence
The site operates as an independent classifieds marketplace for African countries with a registered Singapore company active since 2015. Browser blocklists are clean and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Multiple reports from Reddit, Moroccan news outlets, and older complaints highlight scams such as fake recruitment ads posted by users. Positive ratings appear on several independent review sites while independent review aggregator sits at 2.5/5 from limited reviews. The combination of legitimate infrastructure with documented platform abuse leads to a moderate-risk assessment.
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
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for afribaba.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- afribaba.com is an online classifieds platform for buying/selling across African countries, launched ~2015, with mobile app available.
- Company registered in Singapore since 2015 (AfriBaba / AFRIBABA SARL), active operations with significant traffic (hundreds of thousands monthly visits).
- Scamadviser and Scam-Detector rate the site as likely legitimate/safe with good traffic signals; owner uses privacy-protected WHOIS.
- Trustpilot rating 2.5/5 based on 13 reviews; some user reports of scams occurring via individual ads posted on the platform (e.g., fake recruitment, prostitution-related fraud in Morocco).
- Police in Morocco (Settat, 2026) arrested individuals operating suspicious activity through the site; older complaints of fake job ads using the platform name.
- No evidence of the domain itself being a typosquat or direct clone of major brands; competitors include other African classifieds sites like g-trouve.com.
- Domain receives positive safety scores on multiple checkers (Scamdoc subdomain 95%, Eveninsight 95/100) despite user-generated content risks.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that afribaba.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
- Instagram / Moroccan newsopen
"تمكنت عناصر الشرطة القضائية بولاية أمن سطات من توقيف ستة أشخاص (إفريقيتان، إفريقيان ومغربيان) كانوا ينشطون عبر موقع “Afribaba”"
- Reddit r/Moroccoopen
"afribaba with a very suggestive picture they got online and ... Be careful it's just a scam"
- Weblogy.netopen
"La société Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour a constaté que des individus mal intentionnés ont fait passer une annonce de recrutement a son nom sur le site AFRIBABA"
- Scamadviseropen
"This website is receiving a lot of traffic according to Tranco (500). We found several positive reviews for this site."
- Scam-Detectoropen
"afribaba.com is likely a safe website, given all the risk factors and data numbers analyzed in this in-depth review."
- Scamdoc (subdomain)open
"Ma.afribaba.com ... Excellent Trust Score: 95%. Risk is extremely low!"
Founded 2015 by Jacques Temgo; registered address 16 RAFFLES QUAY #33-03 HONG LEONG BUILDING SINGAPORE 048581
Our research found several mentions of scams occurring through user ads on the platform, including fake recruitment posts reported on news sites and Reddit. Police in Morocco arrested individuals for suspicious activity linked to the site. Positive reviews from independent checkers rate it as safe overall, though independent review aggregator shows mixed user feedback with a 2.5 rating.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://afribaba.com/
- 2403https://afribaba.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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 job / survey / task scam.
0 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 job / survey / task scam.
Suspicious task-based offer
Signals common to task-wall, fake-job, and paid-survey grifts were detected on this page.
- Treat afribaba.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Never pay up-front fees, deposits, or "training costs"
Legitimate employers do not charge you to work. Task-walls that require deposits to "unlock higher earnings" are always a scam.
- Verify the job via the company's official site
Go to the real company's domain directly (not through a link) and search their careers page. If the role doesn't exist there, the listing is fake.
- OpenReport the listing
Report to the platform the listing appeared on (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.), to the FTC, and to the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked afribaba.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- afribaba.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. afribaba.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. afribaba.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- afribaba.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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