Critical risk detected
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Is bellona.org legit or a scam?
Official Bellona Foundation environmental NGO site with 28-year domain history, Wikipedia listing, and clean scan results.
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 site presents itself as the Bellona Foundation, an established environmental NGO focused on climate and pollution issues. Its domain is over 28 years old and matches the organization's founding date exactly. Independent sources including Wikipedia and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition confirm it as the real organization with offices in multiple countries. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, and the page content shows legitimate news and publications. A small number of antivirus detections exist but are outweighed by the long history and positive verification.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for bellona.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - bellona.org is the official website of the Bellona Foundation (also called Bellona Environmental Foundation), an independent non-profit environmental NGO founded in 1986 in Oslo, Norway.
- - Wikipedia entry, UN-affiliated partnerships (e.g., CCAC, UNEP observer status), and offices in Brussels, Washington D.C., St. Petersburg, Murmansk confirm established operations.
- - Domain age of 10,264 days (~28 years) aligns with organization's founding date.
- - No scam reports, fraud allegations, or consumer complaints identified in web searches including Reddit; only unrelated game references or site links.
- - Organization has filed complaints against others (e.g., Equinor) and faced some public criticism in Norway/Russia per Wikipedia, but no quantified complaints against it.
- - Active publications, news, and social media presence as a science-based climate/pollution advocacy group.
- Wikipediaopen
"The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with branches in Europe and North America."
- Climate & Clean Air Coalitionopen
"The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO based in Norway. Founded in 1986 as a direct action protest group, Bellona has become a recognised technology and solution-oriented organization with offices in Oslo, Brussels, Wa"
Environmental NGO/foundation (Miljøstiftelsen Bellona) founded June 16, 1986, headquartered in Oslo; multiple offices internationally
Our research found no scam reports or complaints against bellona.org. The site is confirmed as the official home of the Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian environmental NGO founded in 1986, with matching details on Wikipedia and partner organization pages. Business registration records show it as active.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (europa@bellona.org).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://bellona.org/
- 2200https://bellona.org/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with bellona.org
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- Verify the business through independent channels
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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 flags bellona.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — bellona.org scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. bellona.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- bellona.org is 28.1 years old, registered on 4/20/1998 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 4 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged bellona.org as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. bellona.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- bellona.org resolves to an IP operated by Redpill Linpro Nordic Cloud in NO (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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