No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ble.ir legit or a scam?
Official Iranian messaging platform owned by Bank Melli Iran with one indirect complaint about unresponsive support.
Analysis Summary
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 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
The page appears to be a legitimate Persian social media or content aggregation platform with standard UI elements and no obvious visual scam indicators.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage displays a Persian-language social media or messaging platform interface
Verified account badges are visible next to channel names
Functional navigation categories for news, sports, and entertainment are present
Call-to-action button for downloading an application is visible in the top left
Content includes news headlines and channel recommendations with member counts
Intelligence
The domain hosts a legitimate Persian-language social media and messaging service with verified account badges and functional navigation. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Business registration confirms ownership by Bank Melli Iran, a major state bank. The single complaint found references the domain only as a support destination for a separate game app, not as a scam site itself. The page loads news content and channel recommendations without login forms or credential-harvesting elements. These factors together indicate a real service rather than a fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ble.ir, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official domain for Bale Messenger (بله), a multi-purpose Iranian app providing messaging, social media, and financial services.
- The platform is owned by Bank Melli Iran, a major state-owned bank.
- Technical analysis indicates the service is part of Iran's National Information Network (NIN), often used to maintain domestic connectivity during global internet shutdowns.
- Used by official Iranian government entities, such as the Iranian National Science Foundation, for public communication.
- Some users of third-party apps (e.g., mobile games) have reported being directed to ble.ir for support, which they characterized as 'shady' or unresponsive.
- The app is known to use Telegram for OTP (One-Time Password) delivery for non-Iranian phone numbers.
- Google Play Store Reviewopen
"Scam app with fake support and rigged match results! ... their 'Support' button points to a shady external Iranian messaging service (ble.ir) where it is impossible to get any help."
- Wikidataopen
"Iranian instant messenger, banking app and social media service. ... review score 4.3."
Owned and operated by Bank Melli Iran, the first national bank of Iran.
Our research found one complaint on the Google Play Store describing ble.ir as an unresponsive support channel for a third-party backgammon game. A Wikidata entry confirms the domain is the official host for Bale Messenger, an Iranian messaging and banking app owned by Bank Melli Iran, with a reported 4.3 review score. The platform is also referenced in connection with Iran's National Information Network and official government communications. No widespread scam reports or consumer complaints directly targeting the domain were located.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ble.ir/
- 2200https://ble.ir/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 ble.ir and not a lookalike like b-le.ir.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
ble.ir is the official domain for Bale Messenger, an Iranian messaging and banking app owned by Bank Melli Iran. One user complaint linked the domain to unresponsive support in a third-party game, but no direct scam activity appears on the site itself. Avoid entering credentials if redirected from unrelated apps.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ble.ir, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- ble.ir passed our automated checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from ble.ir), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from ble.ir is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report ble.ir as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — ble.ir is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — ble.ir presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Asseco Data Systems S.A. · Certum DV TLS G2 R39 CA, valid for another 148 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- ble.ir resolves to an IP operated by Iran Information Technology Company PJSC in IR (Fixed Line ISP). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 11, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about ble.ir has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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