No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is cafe24.com legit or a scam?
Official 1999-founded South Korean e-commerce hosting platform with clean scans and public company registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain cafe24.com belongs to Cafe24 Corp., a real public company listed on the Korean stock exchange since 1999. Technical scans show zero malware detections, a clean browser blocklist record, and a valid SSL certificate. The domain itself is over 27 years old with low IP abuse scores. While independent review aggregator lists three negative reviews labeling the service a scam, independent hosting review sites give positive feedback and confirm the company's active operations with nearly 1,000 employees. No evidence of cloning or impersonation appears.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cafe24.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Cafe24 Corp. is a publicly traded South Korean company (KRX:042000) founded May 17, 1999, providing e-commerce platform services
- - Main domain cafe24.com registered May 1999 via Gabia, Inc.; company operates global e-commerce infrastructure with millions of stores
- - Wikipedia and official sources confirm it as legitimate No.1 e-commerce platform in South Korea with ~2M store brands and high GMV
- - Trustpilot page for cafe24.com shows 3 reviews averaging 2.8/5, including multiple 'scam company' comments
- - Hosting review sites rate it positively (e.g., 4.1/5 on hostings.info with user praise for tools and templates)
- - No evidence of typosquatting or cloning famous brands; it is the primary domain for the real Cafe24 business
- - LinkedIn and corporate site list headquarters in Seoul, Dongjak-gu; public company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Hostings.infoopen
"Rahees Ahmed I recently used Cafe24 for my website hosting needs and was quite impressed with their platform. Their website builder tools were user-friendly and I appreciated the variety of design templates available."
- Hostings.infoopen
"Cafe24.com is one of the popular South Korea-based e-commerce sites founded by Jaesuk Lee in 1999. They provide an entire shop for company services for companies that would like to set up and develop their online stores."
Public company (Cafe24 Corp.) listed on KRX/KOSDAQ under ticker 042000; founded May 17, 1999; headquartered in Seoul; ~982-1,001+ employees as of 2025
Our research found three scam-related complaints on independent review aggregator describing unauthorized subscriptions and poor service. Two positive reviews on hosting review sites praise the website builder and templates. Corporate records confirm Cafe24 Corp. as a legitimate, publicly traded South Korean company founded in 1999 with active operations and headquarters in Seoul.
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
- 1302http://cafe24.com/
- 2200https://www.cafe24.com/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 cafe24.com and not a lookalike like c-afe24.com.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
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 found no threat indicators on cafe24.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cafe24.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cafe24.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cafe24.com is 27.1 years old, registered on 5/21/1999 through Gabia, 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 cafe24.com as clean.
- No. cafe24.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cafe24.com resolves to an IP operated by Korea Telecom in KR (usage type: Fixed Line ISP). 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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