Is daretolovesports.ca legit or a scam?
Faith-based youth sports nonprofit in Ontario with legitimate community presence but flagged by 6 antivirus engines and listed on a malware blacklist; mixed legitimacy signals.
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
Fake shop — do not order
11 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
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MT Intelligence
DARE to Love Sports Club appears to be a real nonprofit organization operating youth basketball, pickleball, and summer camps in Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario. The organization is listed on the Peel Community Information Centre directory, appears on the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board bulletin board, and maintains a Facebook presence describing itself as a faith-based nonprofit. However, the domain triggers significant red flags: six antivirus engines (BitDefender, CyRadar, ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, AutoShun, Chong Lua Dao) flag it as phishing or malicious, and the domain appears on a GitHub malware blacklist. A 2019 Reddit post expressed skepticism about ticket legitimacy when the organization sold Raptors tickets via Kijiji. The contact information uses a free Yahoo email address rather than a domain-owned email, which is atypical for established nonprofits. The domain is 11+ years old and the organization claims roots to 1999, suggesting longevity, but the antivirus consensus and blacklist presence create genuine uncertainty about whether the site has been compromised, is hosting malicious content, or is being misused for phishing.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for daretolovesports.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active since ~2015 (4107 days old as of scan); organization claims founding in 1999 or 2013 by Lillian Mendoza; operates youth/adult basketball, pickleball leagues, summer camps in Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario.
- Self-describes as nonprofit promoting DARE (Discipline, Attitude, Respect, Effort) and LOVE values with faith-based elements; listed on peel.cioc.ca community directory, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board bulletin board, and has F
- Physical address: 7340 Copenhagen Road, Unit 37, Mississauga, ON L5N 2S5; contacts include 416-993-6899, 416-712-9992 (text), info@daretolovesportsclub.com, daretolovesportsclub@yahoo.com.
- Appears in a malware/ad-blocking blacklist (GitHub tf-domains-example) and one 2019 Reddit post expressing doubt about legitimacy of Raptors tickets sold via the organization on Kijiji.
- No dedicated Trustpilot/ScamAdviser/ScamDoc profiles found; no widespread scam reports or complaints beyond the single Reddit ticket skepticism and blacklist entry.
- Website offers program registrations (pickleball, Faith Over Fear basketball, 2026 summer camps) with refund policies stated on some pages; no crypto, high-pressure sales, or obvious malicious content detected.
- Mentioned in a 2024 Toronto bankruptcy creditor list (position 41), but context unclear and does not indicate the organization itself is bankrupt.
- peel.cioc.caopen
"DARE to LOVE Sports Club · Community Information Partners Peel. 75 Watline Ave, Unit #103 . Mississauga, ON L4Z 3E5. Phone: 905-890-9432."
- Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Boardopen
"DARE to Love Sports Club - FREE Youth Basketball - Grades 7+ ... DARE to Love Sports/STEAM Summer Camps (Ages 4-15)"
- Facebookopen
"DARE to LOVE Sports Club is a nonprofit organization that promotes DARE virtues and LOVE values through the spirit of sport."
Listed as Ontario non-profit corporation (in historical public list); operates as nonprofit in Mississauga/Brampton area with physical address 7340 Copenhagen Road, Unit 37, Mississauga, ON; listed on community boards and school district bulletins.
Our research found the organization listed on the Peel Community Information Centre directory as an active nonprofit with a physical address in Mississauga and verified contact numbers. The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board bulletin board mentions DARE to Love Sports Club youth programs. A Facebook page describes the organization as a nonprofit promoting faith-based youth sports. However, the domain appears on a GitHub malware blacklist, and a 2019 Reddit post in r/torontoraptors expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of Raptors tickets sold by the organization via Kijiji. The organization is also listed as a creditor in a 2024 Toronto bankruptcy filing (position 41), though the context is unclear. No dedicated profiles on major review aggregators were found, and no widespread scam complaints exist beyond the single Reddit post and blacklist entry.
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 (yahoo.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (416-712-9992).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://daretolovesports.ca/
- 2200https://daretolovesports.ca/
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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Only free-mail contact addresses — no on-domain email.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Only free-mail contact addresses — no on-domain email.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with daretolovesports.ca
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 daretolovesports.ca as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — daretolovesports.ca scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. daretolovesports.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 97 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- daretolovesports.ca is 11.3 years old, registered on 3/18/2015 through Domain Robot Enterprises Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 12 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged daretolovesports.ca as malicious or suspicious (11 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. daretolovesports.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- daretolovesports.ca resolves to an IP operated by IONOS Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around daretolovesports.ca 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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