SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is anon.li legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 81/100

Legitimate open-source privacy service for email aliases and encrypted sharing, clean across our security scans with community endorsements.

anon.liScanned 26d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 73·MT 85
Category tags
privacyemail90% MT confidence
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/93
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
Anon.li is a professional landing page for a privacy tool providing anonymous email aliases, E2EE file drops, and encrypted forms. It earned perfect scores from our antivirus network, sandbox, and browser blocklists with no scam family matches. Positive feedback appears in privacy forums like Reddit, and it's an active open-source project on GitHub. The hosting IP has some abuse reports, but no direct issues tie to this site, supporting our safe verdict.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

  • Promotes three products: Alias for private email forwarding with custom domains and PGP; Drop for browser-encrypted file sharing up to 250GB; Form for E2EE response collection with embeds and API.
  • Open-source with tools like CLI, browser extension, and API; free tier offers unlimited aliases.
  • Clean design with no login forms, urgency, or spam elements; one address listed but no phone.

Infrastructure

  • Valid Let's Encrypt SSL valid for 87 days; hosted on Amazon IP 216.198.79.1 with 59 abuse reports but clean reputation score.
  • No redirects, homoglyphs, or external risks; loads assets from umami.is and codeberg.org.
  • WHOIS data unavailable; not in global traffic indexes.

Domain History

  • Recently launched service with active founder feedback-seeking on Reddit.
  • Open-source repo confirms development; no historical red flags.

Web Reputation

  • Zero scam reports or complaints found.
  • Two positive safety mentions: Gridinsoft rates it safe (76/100), Reddit r/emailprivacy praises alongside established tools like SimpleLogin.
  • No business registration but transparent as indie open-source project.
Risk Factors
3
  • Hosting IP has 59 abuse reports, indicating past issues on the network.
  • WHOIS data unavailable, common for privacy services but limits transparency.
  • Recently launched with no global traffic ranking yet.
Positive Signals
5
  • Clean across 93 antivirus engines, our sandbox, and browser blocklists.
  • Professional page design with open-source badges and legit privacy features.
  • Positive reviews from Gridinsoft and Reddit privacy community.
  • Active GitHub repo and tools like CLI/extension confirm real development.
  • Valid SSL and no scam family triggers or clone indicators.
AI Recommendation
Safe to use for email aliases and encrypted sharing—start with the free plan. Enable PGP if handling sensitive data.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

Screenshot of anon.li
LIVE RENDER
anon.li

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

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.

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/ 100
No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

The page exhibits a professional, fully-rendered landing page design for a privacy service with clean typography, navigation, CTAs, and trust badges like 'Open Source' and 'Encrypted' that appear legitimate. No scam patterns such as fake badges, urgency timers, poor quality, clones, pop-ups, or suspicious elements are present.

Visual risk0/100

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for anon.li, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

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
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Open-source project on GitHub (anondotli/anon.li) providing email aliases, E2EE file sharing (anon.li Drop), and encrypted forms
  • Recently launched service; founder active on Reddit r/emailprivacy seeking user feedback
  • Free plan offers unlimited aliases, PGP forwarding, reply-by-alias, and custom domains
  • Positive safety rating from Gridinsoft (76/100 trust score, no malware/phishing detected)
  • Mentioned positively in privacy communities alongside SimpleLogin and addy.io
  • Browser extension, CLI, API, and MCP server for AI agents available
  • No scam, fraud, complaint, or negative review reports found across searches
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Gridinsoftopen

    "Based on current analysis, anon.li appears to be generally safe. No major malware or phishing threats were detected, and strong independent"

  • Reddit r/emailprivacyopen

    "That's why I think email aliasing is so underrated, especially free services like SimpleLogin, AnonAddy, anon.li."

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
Our web research found zero scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions for anon.li. It has two positive signals: Gridinsoft deems it generally safe with no malware/phishing, and Reddit's r/emailprivacy community recommends it alongside tools like SimpleLogin. It's an open-source project with a free plan, browser tools, and active founder engagement, but no public business registration.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Moderate correlation

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score
0/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Evidence (2)
  • Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US) — an ASN with elevated scam density.
  • IP 216.198.79.1 has 59 abuse reports — likely part of a network.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 93 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 93 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless93Engines
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.

Sandbox Render
Page rendered in a safe sandbox
Requests made1
Unique IPs0
Countries3
Detected brandsNone

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
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainshop@anon.li
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (shop@anon.li).
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 6, 2026 (87d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingVercel, Inc
Server locationUS

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1308http://anon.li/
  • 2200https://anon.li/

Server Reputation

Hosting
CountryUnited States
NetworkAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
IP address216.198.79.1
Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file59
ISPVercel, Inc
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 anon.li and not a lookalike like a-non.li.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
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AbuseIPDB
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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 found no threat indicators on anon.li. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·anon.li
SAFE

Anon.li offers privacy-focused email aliases, end-to-end encrypted file sharing, and forms. It passes all our antivirus, sandbox, and blocklist checks with positive mentions in privacy communities. Feel free to sign up and use it.

Safe to use for email aliases and encrypted sharing—start with the free plan. Enable PGP if handling sensitive data.

AV engines
93
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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