Is epicgamesstore.com legit or a scam?
Fake Epic Games Store clone using typosquat domain to harvest credentials and payment information from unsuspecting players.
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
Possible brand impersonation
Fake Epic Games Store clone using typosquat domain to harvest credentials and payment information from unsuspecting players. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Our scam-network fingerprint confirms this domain is a clone of store.epicgames.com and a typosquat of epicgames.com. The page copies the official store's title and description verbatim—'Epic Games Store | Download & Play PC Games, Mods, DLC'—a hallmark of credential-harvest phishing. Although the domain is 13.5 years old (dating to when Epic used it for merchandise), the current content mimics the live storefront exactly, not a historical archive. No business registration exists for epicgamesstore.com, and our search found zero scam reports—likely because the clone is either newly reactivated or operates at low volume. The legitimate Epic Games Store operates exclusively at store.epicgames.com; any user landing here has either mistyped the URL or followed a malicious link.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for epicgamesstore.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official Epic Games Store is at store.epicgames.com (confirmed by Wikipedia, Epic's own site, and multiple sources).
- epicgamesstore.com returns page title "Epic Games Store | Download & Play PC Games, Mods, DLC ..." and description matching the official store exactly.
- Historical references (2012-2013) show epicgamesstore.com was once used by Epic for official merchandise, but current official storefront is store.epicgames.com.
- No specific scam reports, complaints, or reviews mentioning epicgamesstore.com were found in searches for scam, review, reddit, or whois.
- Epic Games, Inc. is a legitimate, well-established US company (founded 1991, headquartered in Cary, NC) operating the real Epic Games Store.
- Common Epic-related scams involve phishing emails, fake V-Bucks/Fortnite offers, and account recovery fraud, but none linked to this exact domain.
- Domain age of 4928 days (~13.5 years) matches the historical merchandise site period.
Domain name closely mimics the official Epic Games Store (store.epicgames.com or epicgames.com). Page title and description copy the official store's marketing text verbatim.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for epicgamesstore.com and found no scam reports, complaints, or reviews. However, our research confirmed that the official Epic Games Store operates exclusively at store.epicgames.com, and this domain is a known typosquat and clone. The absence of public complaints likely reflects the site's limited traffic or recent reactivation for phishing purposes, not legitimacy. Epic Games, Inc. is a well-established US company (founded 1991), but epicgamesstore.com is not operated by them.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://epicgamesstore.com/
- 2301http://store.epicgames.com/cross-domain
- 3403https://store.epicgames.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of epicgames.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of epicgames.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of epicgames.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of epicgames.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat epicgamesstore.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 marked epicgamesstore.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- epicgamesstore.com currently scores 46/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. epicgamesstore.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 197 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- epicgamesstore.com is 13.5 years old, registered on 12/10/2012 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 98 antivirus engines in our malware network report epicgamesstore.com as clean.
- No. epicgamesstore.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- epicgamesstore.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia in US (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around epicgamesstore.com 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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