No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is bancodevenezuela.com legit or a scam?
Official Banco de Venezuela banking site with a 27-year-old domain, clean records, and confirmed real-world registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain bancodevenezuela.com matches the official bank listed on Wikipedia and bank communications. It has been registered for over 27 years with Tucows and shows zero abuse reports on its hosting IP. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, while one independent review calls it generally safe. The site carries active business registration in Venezuela as Banco de Venezuela, S.A. Visual capture was incomplete, but this does not change the strong legitimacy signals from domain age and registration data.
Website Preview
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for bancodevenezuela.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain bancodevenezuela.com is the official website of Banco de Venezuela (BDV), confirmed by Wikipedia and active site content with recent 2026 news.
- Domain listed as official in multiple bank communications and social media.
- In April 2023, LockBit 3.0 ransomware group claimed bancodevenezuela.com as a victim; bank stated core platforms unaffected.
- Bank actively warns users to verify www.bancodevenezuela.com to avoid phishing sites.
- One independent scanner rates the domain as generally safe with no major threats detected.
- Real bank operating in Venezuela with physical branches and official app BDVApp.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Based on current analysis, bancodevenezuela.com appears to be generally safe. No major malware or phishing threats were detected, and strong independent trust ..."
Banco de Venezuela, S.A. Banco Universal; RIF G-20009997-6
Our research found no scam reports or consumer complaints. One independent review states the site appears generally safe with no major threats detected. The domain is confirmed as the official Banco de Venezuela website with active business registration in Venezuela.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
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 bancodevenezuela.com and not a lookalike like b-ancodevenezuela.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.
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 bancodevenezuela.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- bancodevenezuela.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- bancodevenezuela.com is 27.6 years old, registered on 10/19/1998 through Tucows Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. bancodevenezuela.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- bancodevenezuela.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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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