No specific threat detected
Legitimate Belgian renewable-energy cooperative with active business registration and clean security scans.
Is ecoob.be legit or a scam?
Legitimate Belgian renewable-energy cooperative with active business registration and clean security scans.
This is the legitimate website of a registered Belgian energy cooperative. No scam indicators or malicious detections were found.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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
The website appears to be a legitimate organization focused on sustainable energy, displaying standard navigation and a typical cookie consent banner.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsStandard cookie consent modal present
Professional website design with consistent branding
No indicators of phishing or deceptive urgency tactics
Intelligence
The domain hosts a professional site for ECOOB, a citizen cooperative focused on local solar and heating projects in Flemish-Brabant. Zero antivirus engines flagged the page, the hosting IP shows no abuse history, and the SSL certificate is valid. Business records confirm the operator is registered in Belgium as Energie Coöperatie Oost-Brabant with an active VAT number. The evidence package shows the cooperative has operated since 2018, participates in official EU-funded projects, and has no scam reports or consumer complaints. The combination of clean technical signals, verifiable registration, and documented community activity supports a safe verdict.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for ecoob.be, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- ECoOB (Energie Coöperatie Oost-Brabant) is a legitimate, recognized burgercoöperatie (citizen cooperative) for renewable energy in the Flemish-Brabant region of Belgium.
- The organization is a member of REScoop Vlaanderen and adheres to international cooperative principles.
- It is actively involved in local energy projects, including solar installations and heating-as-a-service demonstrators, often in collaboration with municipalities like Leuven and academic institutions like KU Leuven.
- The cooperative has been operational since 2018 and maintains transparent reporting on its projects, shareholder structure, and energy transition goals.
- No evidence of scam activity, fraud, or negative consumer complaints was found; the domain is consistently referenced in official EU project databases and local government sustainability initiatives.
Registered as 'Energie Coöperatie Oost-Brabant' (ECoOB cv), VAT number BE0696887689, based in Herent.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for ecoob.be and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The evidence package confirms the cooperative is registered in Belgium, has operated since 2018, and participates in documented EU-funded projects with no negative findings.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (inge.pauwels@ecoob.be).
- Phone number listed (0478 22 75 61).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ecoob.be/
- 2301https://ecoob.be/
- 3200https://www.ecoob.be/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 ecoob.be and not a lookalike like e-coob.be.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the legitimate website of a registered Belgian energy cooperative. No scam indicators or malicious detections were found.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 ecoob.be, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- ecoob.be passed our automated checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from ecoob.be), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from ecoob.be is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report ecoob.be 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 — ecoob.be 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.
- Yes — ecoob.be presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 58 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- ecoob.be resolves to an IP operated by Zenjoy BV in FR (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 24, 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 ecoob.be 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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