Warning signs detected
Official-looking Egyptian bookstore site with a single phishing flag and almost no rendered page content despite a 5-year-old domain. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is aseeralkotb.com legit or a scam?
Official-looking Egyptian bookstore site with a single phishing flag and almost no rendered page content despite a 5-year-old domain.
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 domain is over five years old and tied to a real Egyptian publishing house with physical stores, social media presence, and mobile apps. Our antivirus network recorded a single phishing detection from LevelBlue while all other engines and browser blocklists stayed clean. The scanned page returned no text, no contact information, and no functional elements, which conflicts with the established business profile. User complaints exist about possible pirated books and app issues, but no widespread scam reports appear. These mixed signals keep the assessment at suspicious rather than clearly safe or malicious.
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 aseeralkotb.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- aseeralkotb.com is the e-commerce site for عصير الكتب (Aseer Al Kotb), an Egyptian bookstore and publishing house established September 2014 with physical branches in Cairo, Alexandria, Mansoura, Zagazig.
- Company address listed: First floor, Building 53 Central Street, Al-Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt 11571; phones +20 10 30693988, 0020225087454; emails info@aseeralkotb.com, support@aseeralkotb.com.
- Active social media: Instagram @aseeralkotb, Facebook @aseeralkotb, YouTube @Aseeralkotb (74K subscribers), X @AseerAlkotb; sells Arabic and translated books, participates in Cairo International Book Fair.
- Has official iOS and Android apps (Aseer Elkotb / com.asseralkotb) for reading/buying books; App Store rating 3.6/5 from 61 ratings.
- LinkedIn company page: ASEER ALKOTOB - عصير الكتب, founded 2014, Book and Periodical Publishing, Cairo HQ.
- One Reddit comment (r/arabs, 2022): 'heard once that they sell pirated printed books.'
- App Store user reviews include complaints about 'Fake description & not for free' and app bugs in free books section.
- Redditopen
"heard once that they sell pirated printed books."
Egyptian publishing house and bookstore chain founded 2014; physical address Al-Mokattam, Cairo; multiple branches; LinkedIn company page lists 51-200 employees
Our research found the site belongs to an established Egyptian bookstore chain with physical branches in Cairo and other cities since 2014. A single Reddit post raised concerns about possible pirated books. App reviews include complaints about bugs and inaccurate descriptions. No major scam reports or widespread fraud complaints were identified on review platforms.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat aseeralkotb.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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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 aseeralkotb.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.
- aseeralkotb.com currently scores 49/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. aseeralkotb.com 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.
- aseeralkotb.com is 5.6 years old, registered on 10/12/2020 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 aseeralkotb.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. aseeralkotb.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aseeralkotb.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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