Is delfi.lt legit or a scam?
Delfi.lt is Lithuania's leading news portal, operated by a legitimate company since 2001 with no malware or phishing indicators.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as OpenAI / ChatGPT, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official OpenAI / ChatGPT property.
MT Intelligence
Delfi.lt is the official domain of Delfi, UAB, a major Lithuanian news publisher established in 2001 and owned by Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has a clean abuse record, and SSL is valid. Business registration confirms active status with €20.9M annual revenue and 185 employees — consistent with a major news operation. The evidence package shows that while scammers have repeatedly impersonated Delfi using fake Facebook accounts and lookalike domains (delfilietuvoje.com, delfiplus.com), the legitimate delfi.lt domain itself is not a scam. One historical report mentions crypto scammers exploiting the Delfi brand name, but this targeted the brand reputation, not the official site. The page title and meta description match the verified official portal exactly.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for delfi.lt, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- delfi.lt is the official website of Delfi, Lithuania's largest and longest-running news portal, established around 2000 and operated by Delfi, UAB (company code 125483974, registered 2001).
- Parent company is Estonian Ekspress Grupp; 2024/2025 revenue reported between €17.2M and €20.9M with 185–employees and active business registration in Lithuania (lowest credit risk).
- The site and company frequently publish articles about scams, fraud, cybersecurity, and AI/ChatGPT risks; it is not itself a scam site.
- Scammers have repeatedly impersonated Delfi using fake Facebook accounts (e.g., Delfi Plus, News Delfi), similar domains (delfilietuvoje.com, delfiplus.com), and distorted articles for disinformation/scam ads (noted in 2023 reports).
- One 2019 report describes crypto scammers exploiting the Delfi name/brand to lure victims (virusai.lt article).
- No Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc ratings found for the legitimate delfi.lt; Reddit discussions treat it as a mainstream (if sometimes criticized) Lithuanian news source alongside 15min.lt.
- Page title and description match the verified official news portal; no connection to OpenAI/ChatGPT impersonation or cloning.
- virusai.ltopen
"Delfi kriptovaliutų apgavystė: Delfi vardu besinaudojantys internetiniai sukčiai vilioja iš nieko neįtariančių asmenų pinigus."
- debunk.orgopen
"The largest disinformation and scam attack ever recorded in Lithuania... Fake delfilietuvoje.com pretended to be Delfi... more than 30 fake Delfi Plus, Delfi+ and Delfi +Plus Facebook profiles... accounts that pretend to be Delfi.lt."
Delfi, UAB (company code 125483974), registered 15 Jan 2001 (25+ years), owned by Ekspress Grupp, address Gynėjų g. 16, Vilnius. 2025 revenue ~€20.9M, ~185 employees, lowest credit risk. Operates major Lithuanian news portal since ~2000.
Our research confirmed that delfi.lt is the official website of Delfi, Lithuania's largest news portal, operated by Delfi, UAB (registered 2001, company code 125483974) and owned by Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp. The company reports €20.9M annual revenue with 185 employees and active business registration in Lithuania.
Two reports in the evidence package describe scams related to the Delfi brand: one from 2019 documents crypto scammers exploiting the Delfi name to lure victims, and another from 2023 describes a large-scale disinformation campaign where scammers created fake Delfi Facebook profiles (Delfi Plus, News Delfi) and lookalike domains (delfilietuvoje.com, delfiplus.com). Both reports confirm these are separate fraudulent operations impersonating the brand, not compromises of the official delfi.lt site.
No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found for the legitimate delfi.lt domain itself. The site is widely recognized as a mainstream Lithuanian news source.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@delfi.lt).
- Phone number listed (2100005).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://delfi.lt/
- 2301https://delfi.lt/
- 3200https://www.delfi.lt/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 delfi.lt and not a lookalike like d-elfi.lt.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.
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 found no threat indicators on delfi.lt. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- delfi.lt passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. delfi.lt presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 39 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report delfi.lt as clean.
- No. delfi.lt is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- delfi.lt resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- Yes. delfi.lt 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around delfi.lt 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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