Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone academic journal site using a stolen ISSN from a legitimate Italian publication on a 115-day-old domain. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is bthnl.net legit or a scam?
Clone academic journal site using a stolen ISSN from a legitimate Italian publication on a 115-day-old domain.
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 page claims to be a peer-reviewed journal with Scopus indexing, UGC CARE status, and an impact factor of 7.235. Evidence shows the ISSN 0391-6715 actually belongs to the real Italian journal Bollettino Storico - Bibliografico Subalpino. The site uses a free Gmail address for submissions and provides no physical address or proper domain email. The domain is only 115 days old with no business registration found. No direct scam reports exist yet, but the clear ISSN misuse and impersonation pattern match known predatory journal tactics.
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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 bthnl.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain bthnl.net is 115 days old.
- Site title and content claim it is 'BULLETIN FOR TECHNOLOGY AND HISTORY' with ISSN 0391-6715, UGC CARE Group 2, DHET South Africa accredited, impact factor 7.235, Scopus indexing.
- ISSN 0391-6715 is registered to the real Italian journal 'Bollettino Storico - Bibliografico Subalpino' (print, semiannual, Deputazione Subalpina di Storia Patria).
- Scimagojr page for the real journal includes a comment questioning any journal named 'Bulletin For Technology And History' with that ISSN.
- Multiple Indian academic institutions and researchers list or reference publications in 'Bulletin For Technology And History Journal' ISSN 0391-6715 (e.g., PDFs, faculty pages, Instagram posts).
- No direct scam reports, complaints, or reviews mentioning bthnl.net found in web searches including Reddit and scam trackers.
Site uses ISSN 0391-6715 (registered to Italian journal Bollettino Storico - Bibliografico Subalpino) but rebrands as English-language 'Bulletin For Technology And History'
Scam Network Intelligence
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (0391-6715).
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with bthnl.net
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 bthnl.net as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — bthnl.net scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. bthnl.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 50 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- bthnl.net is 3 months old, registered on 2/8/2026 through Spaceship, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report bthnl.net as clean.
- No. bthnl.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- bthnl.net resolves to an IP operated by Webhosting Holdings LLC in NL (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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