Is becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx safe?
http://becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Unofficial look-alike of Mexico's Rita Cetina scholarship portal, monetised with ads and flagged by an external warning
becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx is an information blog about Mexico's Beca Rita Cetina school scholarship that borrows the programme's name in a .com.mx domain while the real portals live on .gob.mx. A published warning names this exact domain as a deceptive look-alike, the page carries third-party advertising, and one antivirus family reports an adverse result. The site does, however, point its sign-in and registration buttons to the genuine becaritacetina.gob.mx and gob.mx addresses, and no evidence shows it collecting credentials itself, so this is a moderate-risk imitation rather than a confirmed phishing or fraud operation.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.-10 pts
- ModerateOne public warning in public web research: "Desconfía de dominios parecidos pero tramposos, del estilo becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx o becaritacetina-gob.com.mx. Ese .com.mx o los guiones de más son la…"-10 pts
- MinorThe page carries third-party advertising (Ray-Ban | Meta, NBA/Peacock) while presenting itself as information about a government benefit programme.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSign-in, registration and portal buttons point to the genuine becaritacetina.gob.mx and gob.mx addresses rather than to a form on this domain.
- SupportsPhone number listed (55 1162 0300).
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 72 to 52 and split those 20 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx is an information blog about Mexico's Beca Rita Cetina school scholarship that borrows the programme's name in a .com.mx domain while the real portals live on .gob.mx. A published warning names this exact domain as a deceptive look-alike, the page carries third-party advertising, and one antivirus family reports an adverse result. The site does, however, point its sign-in and registration buttons to the genuine becaritacetina.gob.mx and gob.mx addresses, and no evidence shows it collecting credentials itself, so this is a moderate-risk imitation rather than a confirmed phishing or fraud operation.
A look-alike domain named in an explicit warning
An external article about the Rita Cetina scholarship warns readers to distrust look-alike domains such as becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx, explaining that the .com.mx ending or extra hyphens are the warning sign because official government sites do not use .com. That is a direct, named warning about this exact host, not a generic category label.
The domain itself is only 246 days old, so there is no long track record behind the name it is borrowing.
The site does not disclose who runs it, and the only phone number found on the page is a single contact detail that does not establish an official or institutional operator.
What the page actually does
The page presents itself as a guide to the scholarship and offers buttons such as "Iniciar sesión becaritacetina.gob.mx", "Registrarse becaritacetina.gob.mx" and "Portal oficial becaritacetina.gob.mx", alongside links to gob.mx/curp, the SEP portal and the Benito Juárez scholarship search. Those buttons point at the genuine government addresses rather than at a form on this domain, which is the main reason the score is not lower.
The commercial side is advertising: the rendered page shows a Ray-Ban | Meta ad at the top and an NBA/Peacock ad in the middle. Traffic drawn in by a name that resembles an official benefit portal is what those ad placements monetise.
The page also lists a phone number, which is the only contact detail observed; it does not identify an organisation behind the site.
Technical checks versus operator risk
Technical signals are mixed but not alarming: one antivirus family, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, returned an adverse result out of 93 engines, with no vendor consensus, while the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
The real concern is operator-level: an undisclosed publisher using a scholarship programme's name on a non-government domain, named in a public warning, and earning from ad impressions. Nothing observed shows a fake login form on this host, so the risk is deception and misdirected trust rather than proven credential theft.
Why the score is 52
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMalicious | malicious |
All 93 engine results
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Malicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendermisc
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekereducational institutions
- Googlegovernment
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Ray-Ban | Meta advertisement at the top of the page. NBA/Peacock advertisement in the center of the page.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Ray-Ban | Meta advertisement at the top of the page.
- 02
NBA/Peacock advertisement in the center of the page.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Beca Rita Cetina 2026: Registro, Requisitos y Fechas de Pago
- Meta description
La Beca Rita Cetina es un apoyo económico del gobierno mexicano para estudiantes de preescolar, primaria y secundaria en escuelas públicas.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terminos-y-condiciones/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Beca Rita Cetina 2026: Registro, Requisitos y Fechas de Pago
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01One public warning in public web research: "Desconfía de dominios parecidos pero tramposos, del estilo becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx o becaritacetina-gob.com.mx. Ese .com.mx o los guiones de más son la…"
- 02One antivirus family reported an adverse result with no consensus across 93 engines.
- 031 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
Web research findings
Independent findings for becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Becas Méxicoopen
"Desconfía de dominios parecidos pero tramposos, del estilo becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx o becaritacetina-gob.com.mx. Ese .com.mx o los guiones de más son la señal de alerta: los sitios oficiales del gobierno no usan .com."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainbecaritacetinagobmx.com.mx
- Redirects tobecaritacetinagobmx.com.mx
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · cdn.larapush.com
Domain Timeline
- Mar 2, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 3, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Phone number listed (55 1162 0300).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Ads
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx/
- 2200https://becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. · The page carries third-party advertising (Ray-Ban | Meta, NBA/Peacock) while presenting itself as information about a government benefit programme.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One public warning in public web research: "Desconfía de dominios parecidos pero tramposos, del estilo becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx o becaritacetina-gob.com.mx. Ese .com.mx o los guiones de más son la…"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx a scam or is it safe?
Is becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx safe to use?
Has becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx domain?
Does becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Unofficial look-alike of Mexico's Rita Cetina scholarship portal, monetised with ads and flagged by an external warning
becaritacetinagobmx.com.mx is an information blog about Mexico's Beca Rita Cetina school scholarship that borrows the programme's name in a .com.mx domain while the real portals live on .gob.mx. A published warning names this exact domain as a deceptive look-alike, the page carries third-party advertising, and one antivirus family reports an adverse result. The site does, however, point its sign-in and registration buttons to the genuine becaritacetina.gob.mx and gob.mx addresses, and no evidence shows it collecting credentials itself, so this is a moderate-risk imitation rather than a confirmed phishing or fraud operation.
09 · Community
Community
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