Is borger.dk legit or a scam?
The authentic Danish government portal for public services, which is frequently impersonated by phishing campaigns but is itself entirely safe.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this is the legitimate borger.dk domain, established in 2007 as the central hub for Danish public services. The site is managed by the Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) and maintains a high global traffic rank. While one engine, Gridinsoft, flagged it as suspicious, this is a false positive likely triggered by the high volume of phishing attacks that impersonate this brand. Technical signals including a valid SSL certificate, clean hosting IP reputation, and official business registration confirm its authenticity. We found no evidence of malicious activity originating from the domain itself.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for borger.dk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- borger.dk is the official Danish national citizen portal (National Citizen Portal) providing access to public self-services, Digital Post, Mit Overblik, and information from authorities; launched in 2007 and operated by the Agency for Digit
- Developed and run in cooperation between Digst (responsible for quality and architecture), state ministries (editorial content), municipalities, regions, and external supplier Netcompany.
- High user trust: 90% of population feel safe using it and 91% overall satisfaction (Dec 2022 survey); site established ~2003 with registration until 2033.
- Scamadviser rates it "Very Likely Safe" / legit and safe, citing high traffic (Tranco rank), valid SSL, long registration, and age; notes some negative reviews detected but concludes safe.
- Frequent official warnings from police, Digst, and borger.dk itself about phishing emails, SMS, and calls impersonating borger.dk or linking to fake borger.dk sites to steal MitID credentials.
- No evidence of the legitimate domain being involved in scams; all reports concern impersonation/phishing using the borger.dk name or lookalikes.
- No dedicated Trustpilot page for borger.dk; subdomains like e-demokrati.borger.dk have poor reviews unrelated to the main portal. No major complaints about the official site found on Reddit or review sites.
- fagligsenior.dkopen
"Advarsel: Falsk mail fra borger.dk kan koste dig dyrt"
- fagligsenior.dkopen
"Politiet advarer: Ringer op - og sender link til falsk borger.dk"
- jammerbugtposten.dkopen
"Telefonsvindel i Nordjylland: Udnytter falsk borger.dk-side"
- digst.dkopen
"Pas på phishing: Falske SMS og e-mails i omløb"
Official government portal operated by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Agency for Digital Government / Digst). Joint public sector project (state, municipalities, regions). Managed with supplier Netcompany. No private company CVR tied directly to the domain.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://borger.dk/
- 2301https://borger.dk/
- 3200https://www.borger.dk/cross-domain
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 borger.dk and not a lookalike like b-orger.dk.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.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, 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 borger.dk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- borger.dk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. borger.dk presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 147 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged borger.dk as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. borger.dk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- borger.dk resolves to an IP operated by GlobalConnect A/S in DK (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 1, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around borger.dk have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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