Is divar.ir legit or a scam?
Divar is the leading Iranian classifieds marketplace with over 50 million users, though its popularity makes it a frequent target for third-party peer-to-peer fraud.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been active since 2012 and is operated by a registered Iranian corporation with hundreds of employees. Our analysis shows it holds a massive global traffic rank and is recognized as a primary digital infrastructure in its region. While local authorities have noted that a high percentage of online fraud in Iran occurs via ads on this platform, this is a reflection of its massive user base rather than the site being malicious. The platform provides official guidance on avoiding common peer-to-peer scams like advance-payment fraud. Technical signals, including valid SSL and clean antivirus scans, confirm the site is a legitimate business operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for divar.ir, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Divar.ir is Iran's largest and most popular online classifieds platform for real estate, vehicles, goods, jobs and services, founded in 2012.
- Operated by Agah Pardazan Hooshmand (registered Iranian company); has 501-1,000 employees and has received significant foreign investment.
- Claims 53-70+ million users and over 100 million annual ads; available as a mobile app with high download numbers (100M+ installs reported).
- Police FATA (cyber police) publicly stated that ~60% of Iran's online scams occur on the Divar platform, primarily via fake ads demanding deposits (bi'aneh).
- Divar maintains an official fraud hub and complaint system warning users about common scams such as verification code theft, fake payments, and job scams.
- No evidence of the site itself being a scam; it is a legitimate, long-established Iranian business widely used for peer-to-peer transactions.
- Domain WHOIS confirms Iranian registration to the operating company; active since at least 2012 with extensive media and Wikipedia coverage.
- Police FATA (via multiple Iranian news and Instagram)open
"پلیس فتا: 60 درصد کلاهبرداریهای سایبری در پلتفرم دیوار انجام میشود ... رایجترین ترفند مجرمان، دریافت بیعانه از کاربران است."
- Zoomit.iropen
"در معاملات آنلاین دیوار، کلاهبرداران از الگوهای مشخص برای فریب استفاده میکنند. ... اپلیکیشن دیوار ... بستر مناسبی برای سوءاستفاده و کلاهبرداری برخی افراد سودجو هم شده است."
- Divar official fraud hubopen
"کلاهبردارها با دریافت کد تأیید دیوار از شما، وارد حساب کاربری شما میشوند ... کلاهبرداری از خریدارها با کارتبهکارت بیعانه"
- Wikipediaopen
"Divar ... is an Iranian Persian classified ads and E-commerce mobile app, and an online platform for users in Iran founded in Iran in 2012 ... 53.1M users/yr"
- Cafebazaar app pageopen
"برنامهٔ دیوار، با بیش از ۷۰ میلیون کاربر، پرکاربردترین سکوی آگهیهای آنلاین در ایران است."
- Divar brand landingopen
"دیوار بزرگترین مرجع نیازمندیهای ایران است. ... ۵۳ میلیون کاربر یکتا ... ۱۴۰ میلیون آگهی"
Registered to Agah Pardazan Hooshmand (آگاه پردازان هوشمند); parent company of Divar; 501-1,000 employees; received Dutch investment of $47M; official WHOIS holder
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://divar.ir/
- 2200https://divar.ir/
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 divar.ir and not a lookalike like d-ivar.ir.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
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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 found no threat indicators on divar.ir. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- divar.ir passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. divar.ir presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Asseco Data Systems S.A. · Certum DV TLS G2 R39 CA, expiring in 164 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 divar.ir as clean.
- No. divar.ir is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- divar.ir resolves to an IP operated by Avaye Hamrahe Houshmande Hezardastan PJSC in NL (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.
- Yes. divar.ir 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 20, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around divar.ir 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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