Is albertvdberg.nl a scam?

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

Is albertvdberg.nl safe to use?

albertvdberg.nl passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does albertvdberg.nl have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. albertvdberg.nl presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

How old is the albertvdberg.nl domain?

albertvdberg.nl is 13.4 years old, registered on 1/22/2013 through Triple Interactive B.V.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.

Has albertvdberg.nl been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report albertvdberg.nl as clean.

Is albertvdberg.nl on any phishing or malware blacklists?

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

Where is albertvdberg.nl hosted?

albertvdberg.nl resolves to an IP operated by Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited in NL (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.

How often is the albertvdberg.nl report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 13, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around albertvdberg.nl have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is albertvdberg.nl legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 82/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Established personal blog about Portuguese nature and expat life — no scam signals detected.

Why we trust it

Domain registered 13 years ago — consistent with a genuine long-running personal project.Zero antivirus detections across 92 engines and clean browser blocklists.Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.

albertvdberg.nlScanned 4h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 82·MT 82

Positive signals (5)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Domain is 13 years old Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

13 years old

Registered Jan 22, 2013

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

albertvdberg.nl

1Personal blog layout with navigation menu containing sections: Home, Albert, Fauna in Portugal, Flora in Portugal, Mijn tuin, Portugal, Schrijfsels — consistent with a hobbyist/personal site.

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

Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The screenshot depicts a fully-rendered Dutch-language personal blog about life in Portugal, with no scam indicators, suspicious overlays, or deceptive design patterns visible.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

3 signals

Personal blog layout with navigation menu containing sections: Home, Albert, Fauna in Portugal, Flora in Portugal, Mijn tuin, Portugal, Schrijfsels — consistent with a hobbyist/personal site.

Hero image shows a colorful umbrella street installation in Portugal with Dutch-language tagline 'Mijn leven in Portugal' (My life in Portugal), indicating a personal lifestyle blog.

No trust badges, urgency timers, suspicious forms, or payment elements visible.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

This is a genuine personal website operated by Albert van den Berg, a Dutch expat living in Portugal since 2009. The domain was registered 4,889 days ago (approximately 13 years), and the content — nature photography, travel stories, gardening updates, and personal essays — is consistent with a long-running hobby blog. Our antivirus network flagged nothing, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. The site lacks any commercial elements: no shop, no login forms, no payment requests, no cryptocurrency, and no contact harvesting. Web research found no scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions on consumer-review sites or Reddit. The visual design is a straightforward WordPress blog layout with no deceptive patterns, urgency timers, or trust-badge spoofing.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The site is a Dutch-language personal blog titled 'Mijn leven in Portugal' (My life in Portugal). Navigation includes sections on fauna (amphibians, bees, lizards, beetles, dragonflies, scorpions, spiders, insects, flies, butterflies, birds, bugs), flora (mushrooms, plants), a personal garden, travel logs across Portuguese regions, and a writing section with poetry, stories, and personal essays. Recent posts discuss vegetable gardening and car maintenance — typical hobbyist content.

Infrastructure

Domain age: 4,889 days (registered approximately 13 years ago). Hosting IP 191.96.96.45 has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. SSL certificate is valid (Let's Encrypt, 82 days to expiry). No redirects, homoglyphs, or internationalized domain tricks detected. The site loads external resources from legitimate CDNs (Google Fonts, WordPress.org) and a personal portfolio domain (cryoutcreations.eu).

Domain History

Registered with Triple Interactive B.V. (a Dutch registrar) with WHOIS privacy disabled, indicating transparency. The 13-year registration history is consistent with a long-standing personal project rather than a disposable fraud domain.

Web Reputation

Our antivirus network: 0 of 92 engines flagged malicious or suspicious. Browser blocklists: clean. Web research found zero scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions on consumer-review aggregators, Reddit, or Dutch review sites. The site appears in lists of legitimate Portuguese expat blogs. No business registration was expected or found, as this is a personal hobby site, not a commercial entity.

Positive Signals

Domain registered 13 years ago — consistent with a genuine long-running personal project.
Zero antivirus detections across 92 engines and clean browser blocklists.
Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
Valid SSL certificate from a trusted issuer.
No commercial elements, payment forms, or credential-harvesting patterns.

AI Recommendation

This site is safe to visit. It is a genuine personal blog about Portuguese nature and expat life with no commercial or malicious intent.

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

Domain age

13 yrs

Registered Jan 2013

Business registration

No public record found

Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.

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

No scam reports found

No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

Domain registered approximately 13 years ago (4889 days).
Personal website of Albert van den Berg, Dutch expat living in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal since 2009.
Content focuses on nature photography (fauna, amphibians, bees, lizards, beetles in Portugal), personal stories, blog posts about daily life, and fiction with twists.
No shop, e-commerce, login forms, cryptocurrency, airdrops, or commercial services detected.
No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or Dutch review sites.
Site appears in lists of personal Portugal expat blogs alongside other non-commercial sites.
Multiple unrelated professionals share the name (professor, rugby player, etc.), but this domain matches the photographer/expat profile.

Research summary

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

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for albertvdberg.nl and didn't find scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions. The domain appears in lists of legitimate Portuguese expat blogs. For an established personal hobby site with no commercial activity, this clean record is expected.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines

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 profiles0

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.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History

Age13 years old

RegistrarTriple Interactive B.V.

RegisteredJan 22, 2013

ExpiresUnknown

Owner privacyVisible

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1

ExpiresSep 3, 2026 (82d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited

Server locationNL

Web serverApache/2

Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://albertvdberg.nl/
2200https://albertvdberg.nl/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited

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 albertvdberg.nl and not a lookalike like a-lbertvdberg.nl.com or an IDN homoglyph.
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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.

gmpg.org fonts.googleapis.com cryoutcreations.eu wordpress.org

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 albertvdberg.nl. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
albertvdberg.nl passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. albertvdberg.nl presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
albertvdberg.nl is 13.4 years old, registered on 1/22/2013 through Triple Interactive B.V.. 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 albertvdberg.nl as clean.
No. albertvdberg.nl is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
albertvdberg.nl resolves to an IP operated by Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited in NL (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.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 13, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around albertvdberg.nl 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·albertvdberg.nl

SAFE

A legitimate Dutch-language personal blog documenting life in Portugal, run by a nature photographer and expat. The site has been online for 13 years, carries no scam indicators, and shows genuine hobby content with no commercial intent.

This site is safe to visit. It is a genuine personal blog about Portuguese nature and expat life with no commercial or malicious intent.

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