Is chatrandom.com safe?

http://chatrandom.com/

Moderate RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Chatrandom is a long-running video chat platform with documented billing complaints and non-refundable purchase terms.

Chatrandom operates a live video chat service that offers paid upgrades, tokens, and subscriptions. The domain is over 6,000 days old and shows no malware detections, yet multiple user reports cite account bans shortly after payment and difficulty obtaining refunds.

Review the full Terms and test any paid features with the smallest possible amount; keep records of all transactions and cancellation attempts.
Read full analysis
Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

Chatrandom operates a live video chat service that offers paid upgrades, tokens, and subscriptions. The domain is over 6,000 days old and shows no malware detections, yet multiple user reports cite account bans shortly after payment and difficulty obtaining refunds.

Billing policy and user complaints

The site's Terms state that all purchases of Tokens, Gifts, and subscriptions are final and non-refundable except where required by law.

User reviews on the Google Play Store and independent review sites report account bans immediately after subscribing and difficulty canceling subscriptions.

Technical checks and reputation signals

The domain is 6101 days old and carries no malware detections from the multi-engine malware scan or the browser threat feed.

The operator lists a domain email (support@chatrandom.com) and a U.S. phone number, and the site maintains active social media profiles.

Why the score is 52

Multiple user reports cite post-payment account bans and refund difficulties. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 92

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 92 engines

No antivirus engine in this saved scan raised an adverse result. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
92
All 92 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - unrated - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • Synthient - unrated - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - clean - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
chatrandom.com
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Start, Stop, Girls, Select Your Gender, Start Chat

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Start, Stop, Girls, Select Your Gender, Start Chat

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Chatrandom: Free Random Video Chat - Stranger Cam Chat Live

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 92 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

Subscription Trap

Service and business model

Content

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Multiple user reports cite post-payment account bans and refund difficulties.
  2. 02Multiple user reports cite post-payment account bans and refund difficulties.
  3. 03Purchases are stated as final and non-refundable except where required by law.

If this is a scam — what it means for you

What happens when a visitor upgrades

A visitor clicks the Upgrade button and completes payment for tokens or a subscription.

If this is a scam, how it works

The evidence-backed path

Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.

  1. Shortly after payment, some users report their accounts are banned, preventing further use of the service.

  2. Refund requests are directed to the app store or the site's billing support, and the Terms state purchases are generally non-refundable.

Review the full Terms and test any paid features with the smallest possible amount; keep records of all transactions and cancellation attempts.

Subscription TrapConfidence: Moderate

Grounded in 5 saved evidence references.

Web research findings

Independent findings for chatrandom.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
4 scam reports
Scam reports (4)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Google Play Storeopen

    "scammers, literally just opened the app and subscribed and got banned without even opening the camera"

  • Steve Jabbaopen

    "Complaints that gender-filter access only became clear after payment."

  • Steve Jabbaopen

    "Complaints about seeing too much unsolicited explicit male nudity."

  • Digitalways Infoopen

    "complaints clustering around billing practices, moderation gaps, and the difficulty of canceling subscriptions."

Reputation Sources

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

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

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainchatrandom.com
  2. Redirects tochatrandom.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencescom.chatrandom · googletagmanager.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Jan 19, 2010
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 17 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 4, 2026
    Saved security review — Flagged as suspicious

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

chatrandom.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainsupport@chatrandom.com
Phone numbers(916) 445-1254
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles4
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (support@chatrandom.com).
  • Phone number listed ((916) 445-1254).
  • Links to 15 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age17 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredJan 19, 2010
ExpiresJan 19, 2035
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresDec 20, 2026 (77d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
PopularityNot in popularity top list

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://chatrandom.com/
  • 2206https://chatrandom.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 92 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · Oct 4, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result4 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Review the full Terms and test any paid features with the smallest possible amount; keep records of all transactions and cancellation attempts.

  2. Treat chatrandom.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

    Open

07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is chatrandom.com a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give chatrandom.com a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The domain is 16.7 years old. Until it can be independently verified, don't enter passwords, card details, or send money, and confirm the company through channels you find yourself rather than links on the site.
Is chatrandom.com safe to use?
chatrandom.com has a Safety Score of 52/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Do not trust blindly; analysis may be limited.
Has chatrandom.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report chatrandom.com 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.
Is chatrandom.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — chatrandom.com 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.
How old is the chatrandom.com domain?
chatrandom.com is 16.7 years old, registered on January 19, 2010 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does chatrandom.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — chatrandom.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 77 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".
Where is chatrandom.com hosted?
chatrandom.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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.
How often is the chatrandom.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 4, 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 chatrandom.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
52/100
Moderate Risk

Chatrandom is a long-running video chat platform with documented billing complaints and non-refundable purchase terms.

Saved capturechatrandom.comCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

Chatrandom operates a live video chat service that offers paid upgrades, tokens, and subscriptions. The domain is over 6,000 days old and shows no malware detections, yet multiple user reports cite account bans shortly after payment and difficulty obtaining refunds.

Recommended actionReview the full Terms and test any paid features with the smallest possible amount; keep records of all transactions and cancellation attempts.
Saved evidence only

Missing checks are never treated as a clean result.

Scan another URL
Continue toCommunity

09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.