Security Review

Is casasbahia.com.br legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 97/100

Official website for the major Brazilian retailer Casas Bahia, featuring a 29-year-old domain and verified corporate ownership.

casasbahia.com.brScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 100·MT 95
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
29 years old
Registered Jan 21, 1997
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 98% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust95/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain has been registered since 1996 and is the primary digital storefront for Grupo Casas Bahia S.A., a massive retail group with over 900 physical stores. Our analysis confirms the site uses high-grade security certificates and is hosted on reputable infrastructure with zero malware detections. While consumer review sites show a high volume of complaints, these are typical for a retailer of this scale and relate to logistics or customer service rather than fraudulent intent. The site is officially linked from the company's investor relations portal and verified corporate filings. We found no evidence of phishing or malicious activity on this specific domain.
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Page Content

The website is a fully functional e-commerce platform offering a wide range of consumer electronics, appliances, and furniture. It features localized Brazilian Portuguese content, integrated payment gateways, and official customer support channels.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on high-performance infrastructure with a valid ECC SHA384 SSL certificate issued by DigiCert. It maintains a clean reputation across all major security engines and shows no signs of malicious redirects or hidden scripts.

Domain History

Registered over 10,700 days ago, this domain is one of the oldest active retail sites in Brazil. It is not a recently created clone; rather, it is the target that many smaller phishing sites attempt to imitate.

Web Reputation

The domain holds a top-tier global traffic rank, indicating millions of monthly visitors. While some independent review aggregators show mixed consumer sentiment regarding delivery times, the business itself is a verified legal entity (CNPJ 33.041.260/0652-90).
Risk Factors
2
  • High volume of consumer complaints regarding delivery delays and customer service on third-party review sites.
  • Historical reports of scammers creating fake 'clone' sites that impersonate this official domain.
Positive Signals
4
  • Domain age of over 29 years indicates long-term stability and legitimacy.
  • Verified ownership by a publicly traded company (Grupo Casas Bahia S.A.).
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and major browser blocklists.
  • Valid high-assurance SSL certificate and secure hosting environment.
AI Recommendation
You can safely use this website for shopping. Always ensure the URL in your browser is exactly 'casasbahia.com.br' to avoid fake clone sites.
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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 casasbahia.com.br, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
29 yrs
Registered Jan 1997
Business registration
Active · Brazil
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
4 scam reports · 45580 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • casasbahia.com.br is the official online store of Grupo Casas Bahia S.A. (CNPJ 33.041.260/0652-90), a major Brazilian retailer with over 900 physical stores.
  • Reclame Aqui lists 45,580 complaints for Casas Bahia - Loja Online with a 'Regular' reputation (6.0/10 average in recent 6 months), 86.3% response rate, 73.6% resolution rate, and consumer score of 3.98/10.
  • Primary complaints center on delivery delays (26.5%), issues with TVs and home appliances; some reports of account fraud and unauthorized purchases using customer data.
  • Scamadviser rates it as 'Very Likely Safe' with valid SSL, money-back payment options, and long registration, despite noting mainly negative reviews.
  • Trustpilot shows low score (~2/5 from ~260 reviews); older news (2017) reports scammers creating fake clone sites impersonating Casas Bahia.
  • Domain age over 29 years (10,749 days); company founded in 1952, part of publicly traded Grupo Casas Bahia with investor disclosures and physical presence.
  • No evidence this specific domain is a scam or phishing site; it is actively promoted by the legitimate company on official channels.
Scam reports (4)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Reclame Aquiopen

    "Esta empresa recebeu 45580 reclamações. ... nota média dos consumidores é 3.98. ... 44.5% voltariam a fazer negócio."

  • PROTESTEopen

    "casas bahia - Fraude em cadastro no site. Estou sendo vítima de fraude no meu cadastro nas Casas Bahia , alguém está tentando fazer compra através do meu cadastro"

  • PROTESTEopen

    "casas bahia - Compra Fraude com meu login. ... o pedido estava com meus dados pessoais reais, o que ocasionou a quadrilha da fraude aguardar a entrega da empresa NA PORTA DA MINHA CASA."

  • VEJAopen

    "Golpistas criam sites falsos da Casas Bahia e Americanas. ... golpistas criaram páginas dublês de redes varejistas famosas , como Ponto Frio, Casas Bahia e Americanas."

Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Scamadviseropen

    "In summary, we think casasbahia.com.br is legit and safe for consumers to access."

  • Grupo Casas Bahia RIopen

    "Atua nas vendas online (1P e 3P) por meio do site www.casasbahia.com.br e também possui um dos apps mais baixados, além de mais de 900 lojas"

Business registration
Status: active · Brazil

Grupo Casas Bahia S.A., CNPJ 33.041.260/0652-90, registered since 2012 (or earlier as Via Varejo), publicly traded company operating the official site

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We identified that this site is the official online store for Grupo Casas Bahia S.A., a major Brazilian retailer. Consumer review sites show a 'Regular' reputation due to the high volume of transactions, with most complaints centered on delivery logistics. Independent security researchers and corporate filings confirm this domain is the authentic destination for the brand.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age29 years old
RegistrarHidden
RegisteredJan 21, 1997
ExpiresJan 21, 2031
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerDigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1
ExpiresNov 27, 2026 (152d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAkamai Technologies, Inc.
Server locationUS
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAkamai Technologies, Inc.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 casasbahia.com.br and not a lookalike like c-asasbahia.com.br.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 casasbahia.com.br. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • casasbahia.com.br passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. casasbahia.com.br presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 152 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • casasbahia.com.br is 29.4 years old, registered on 1/21/1997. 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 casasbahia.com.br as clean.
  • No. casasbahia.com.br is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • casasbahia.com.br resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in US (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.
  • Yes. casasbahia.com.br sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·casasbahia.com.br
SAFE

This is the official website for Casas Bahia, one of Brazil's largest and most established retail chains. The domain has been active for nearly 30 years and is operated by a legitimate, publicly traded corporation. You can safely browse and shop here.

You can safely use this website for shopping. Always ensure the URL in your browser is exactly 'casasbahia.com.br' to avoid fake clone sites.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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