Critical risk detected
Established Indonesian news site with 28-year domain history and zero malicious detections across 92 engines. Our security review flagged this site as high-risk. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is detik.com legit or a scam?
Yes — this is almost certainly a scam.
Established Indonesian news site with 28-year domain history and zero malicious detections across 92 engines.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →
Intelligence
The domain detik.com was registered in 1998 and has maintained continuous operation for over 28 years. Our antivirus network returned zero detections from 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page loads legitimate news content with proper navigation, category sections, and external analytics domains typical of major media outlets. A countdown timer triggered one scam-family match, yet this appears to be a promotional element rather than a pressure tactic for fraud. The brand-impersonation flag for OpenAI is a false positive triggered by unrelated page text. No login forms, credential harvesting, or malware distribution patterns are present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for detik.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for detik.com and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
Domain Timeline
- May 29, 1998Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 28 years old today.
- Jul 12, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
detik.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.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Phone number listed (8570683).
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://detik.com/
- 2200https://www.detik.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Trust History
What to do
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with detik.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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.
- 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.
- OpenShare your experience
If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.
Final Verdict
detik.com is a long-established Indonesian news portal. The domain has operated for 28 years with clean security scans and no malicious flags.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- detik.com is a dangerous scam site — avoid interacting with it. The domain is 28.1 years old through Name.com, Inc.. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — detik.com scored just 1/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on detik.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on detik.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report detik.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report detik.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.
- No — detik.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.
- detik.com is 28.1 years old, registered on May 29, 1998 through Name.com, Inc.. 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.
- detik.com resolves to an IP operated by PT. Detik Ini Juga in ID (Fixed Line ISP). 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.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 12, 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 detik.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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