Is cinemaos.live legit or a scam?
Fake streaming clone impersonating Amazon with unlicensed content; flagged malicious by Gridinsoft and Webroot; no business registration.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. 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.
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MT Intelligence
Cinemaos.live operates as an unlicensed streaming aggregator that mimics Amazon's interface and lists Amazon Prime among its providers without authorization. Gridinsoft and Webroot both flag the domain as malicious, and independent security scanners assign it a 1/100 trust score and classify it as a scam. The site has no legitimate business registration, no verifiable contact email or postal address, and impersonates a major brand on a low-trust .live domain. While the site appears functional and is mentioned positively in piracy communities on Reddit, this reflects its use as a free streaming tool rather than legitimacy — the underlying operation distributes copyrighted content without licenses and uses brand impersonation to build credibility.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cinemaos.live, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age approximately 380 days (registered around mid-2025).
- Gridinsoft assigns 1/100 trust score and blocks the site as a classified scam with blacklist warnings from multiple security vendors.
- Flagged as "Generic Malicious Object" in PCRisk/fmhy.net security scan alongside similar domains like cinemaos.me and cinemaos.tech.
- Scam-Detector describes it as questionable with a medium-low trust score and does not recommend use.
- Listed as a recommended free streaming site for movies, TV, anime, and manga (with auto-next features) in Reddit piracy communities such as r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH and r/BLACKBOX_TV.
- Self-describes as a Next.js/shadcn/ui site that aggregates and embeds third-party content without hosting media files itself.
- No business registration, company details, or legitimate contact information identified.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Cinemaos.live Review: Scam Risk (1/100 Trust Score). Multiple security vendors blacklist Cinemaos.live, and our checks show a 1/100 trust score. Gridinsoft blocks this website because it was classified as scam website. cinemaos.live has a b"
- PCRisk Scanner / fmhy.net scanopen
"cinemaos.live Flagged: Generic Malicious Object"
- Scam-Detectoropen
"Is cinemaos.live legit? It's definitely questionable, and we don't recommend it based on its medium-low trust score."
Page lists Amazon Prime among streaming providers; detected as Amazon impersonation/clone attempt per input. Site aggregates unlicensed streams of movies/TV/anime.
Security vendors and scam-detection services consistently flag cinemaos.live as malicious or high-risk. Gridinsoft assigns a 1/100 trust score and classifies it as a scam website with multiple security-vendor blacklist warnings. PCRisk scanner flags it as a generic malicious object alongside related domains (cinemaos.me, cinemaos.tech). Scam-Detector rates it as questionable with medium-low trust and does not recommend use.
In contrast, the site is actively promoted in Reddit piracy communities (r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH and r/BLACKBOX_TV) as a well-designed free streaming aggregator for movies, TV shows, anime, and manga. Users praise its interface and auto-next features, though some note the presence of advertisements.
No legitimate business registration, company details, or owner information was found in any jurisdiction. The site self-describes as a content aggregator that embeds third-party streams without hosting media files directly.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Amazon on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (1275779).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cinemaos.live/
- 2200https://cinemaos.live/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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 Amazon.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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 Amazon.
- 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 cinemaos.live
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags cinemaos.live as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — cinemaos.live scored 12/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. cinemaos.live presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 43 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cinemaos.live is 1.0 year old, registered on 5/27/2025 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged cinemaos.live as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. cinemaos.live is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cinemaos.live resolves to an IP operated by YottaSrc Hosting and Cloud Service in FR (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 June 11, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around cinemaos.live 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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