No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is badoo.com legit or a scam?
Official Badoo dating site with clean technical results and a domain registered over 23 years ago.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the legitimate Badoo dating platform with matching homepage content and branding. Technical scans show zero malicious detections, a valid SSL certificate, and an extremely old domain. The hosting IP carries only minimal abuse history. Evidence confirms this is the primary domain of Badoo Trading Limited, a real UK company. User complaints focus on fake profiles within the service rather than the site itself being fraudulent or malicious.
Website Preview
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the legitimate Badoo dating site homepage with a standard privacy consent banner.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for badoo.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- badoo.com is the official website of Badoo, an online dating app founded in 2006 by Andrey Andreev.
- Company operates as Badoo Trading Limited (UK), subsidiary of Bumble Inc. (formerly MagicLab).
- Domain age exceeds 23 years (8405 days as provided).
- Trustpilot shows ~15K reviews with average score ~2.9/5; frequent mentions of fake profiles and scammers on platform.
- ScamAdviser rates badoo.com as 'Very Likely Safe' / legit despite negative user reviews.
- Badoo maintains official guidelines prohibiting scams/fraud and claims to block ~95% of scam profiles.
- No evidence of badoo.com being a clone or typosquat; it is the primary brand domain.
- Trustpilotopen
"The app is full of fake profiles, scammers, and inactive accounts, and the whole platform feels more focused on getting money out of users than helping people actually connect."
- Trustpilotopen
"Full of scammers and fake accounts."
- Redditopen
"I downloaded Badoo and being in a major US city. I keep getting likes and matches with women claiming to be in my area or have my area in their profile ..."
- ScamAdviseropen
"We discovered mainly negative reviews for this site"
- Digital Forensicsopen
"Badoo has become infected with scammers . Cybercriminals that prey on innocent users by entrapping them with fake profiles and fake flirtations."
Badoo Trading Limited, private limited company, registered office in London, active per Companies House
independent review aggregator and Reddit contain multiple complaints about fake profiles and scammers on Badoo. independent review aggregator and other sources still classify the site as legitimate. The company is registered in the UK as Badoo Trading Limited and has operated since 2006.
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.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://badoo.com/
- 2200https://badoo.com/
Server Reputation
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 badoo.com and not a lookalike like b-adoo.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 found no threat indicators on badoo.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- badoo.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. badoo.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 41 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- badoo.com is 23.0 years old, registered on 5/26/2003 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 badoo.com as clean.
- No. badoo.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- badoo.com resolves to an IP operated by Public-services-2 NAT/PAT POOL in Miami in US (usage type: Commercial). 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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