Critical risk detected
Piracy site distributing free pre-installed cracked PC games with multiple malware and hardware-damage reports on independent review aggregator. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is ankergames.net legit or a scam?
Piracy site distributing free pre-installed cracked PC games with multiple malware and hardware-damage reports on independent review aggregator.
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 presents itself as a source for free pre-installed Steam games with direct downloads, which is a classic cracked-software distribution model. One antivirus engine flagged it as malicious while browser blocklists stayed clean and the domain is over 600 days old. Four independent review aggregator reviews describe remote access trojans, viruses, and destroyed hardware after using the site. Three Reddit posts in piracy subreddits list it as accepted in their megathreads, yet the concrete malware complaints are more serious. The combination of illegal content plus real-world infection reports makes the risk too high for safe use.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ankergames.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain ankergames.net offers free pre-installed PC games with direct downloads; page title 'AnkerGames - Free Pre-installed PC Games'
- - Listed on CS.RIN RU megathread (added due to download speed); now also on r/PiratedGames megathread as of May 2026
- - Trustpilot profile for ankergames.net has 30 reviews with average score 3.1/5
- - Multiple Reddit threads in r/PiratedGames, r/FitGirlRepack, r/CrackSupport discussing site legitimacy and safety
- - Scamadviser rates domain as 'likely safe' but notes unlawful content (game piracy) and mixed reviews
- - Operates YouTube channel @AnkerGames_net with ~3.39K subscribers and tutorial videos
- - Site FAQ claims all games are 'thoroughly tested and verified for safety'
- Trustpilotopen
"I was given a remote access trojan... I was forced onto a Discord call and was threatened to get SWATted, don't trust this site whatsoever"
- Trustpilotopen
"fake site u can find all games but actually lot a virus, How can them sell Tarkov ???????? just that proof this site is fake dont installe on that"
- Trustpilotopen
"STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE. After about a month of playing, it killed my graphics card."
- Trustpilotopen
"DONT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THIS WEBSITE, my 2000$ computer is basically toast and I’m pissed, tons of hidden encryptions"
- Reddit (r/PiratedGames)open
"As already pointed out the site is listed as trusted by cs rin and by extension would be considered trustworthy here."
- Reddit (r/PiratedGames)open
"To anyone seeing this as of May 23 2026, Ankergames are now on the MegaThread and considered SAFE"
- Reddit (r/FitGirlRepack)open
"One of the best sites, it has pre-installed softwares (Download and Play), no installation needed."
independent review aggregator shows four negative reviews describing remote-access trojans, viruses, and destroyed graphics cards after downloads from the site. Reddit threads in r/PiratedGames and r/FitGirlRepack contain three positive mentions that place the site on community megathreads as acceptable for piracy. No business registration records were 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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (23222834).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with ankergames.net
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 flags ankergames.net as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — ankergames.net scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. ankergames.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ankergames.net is 1.7 years old, registered on 9/23/2024 through Tucows Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged ankergames.net as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. ankergames.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ankergames.net 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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