Is eventbrite.co.uk legit or a scam?
Official UK domain for Eventbrite, an established global ticketing platform with over 19 years of domain history and verified business registration.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for nearly 20 years and is registered to a verified UK corporation, Eventbrite UK Limited. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists show no malicious activity or phishing signatures. While some users report issues with specific event organizers or refund disputes on third-party review sites, these are typical of a large-scale marketplace and do not indicate that the website itself is a scam. The site uses secure, valid encryption and is a high-traffic destination. We found no evidence of technical fraud or malicious intent associated with the infrastructure.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for eventbrite.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- eventbrite.co.uk is the official UK website of Eventbrite, a major global event ticketing and discovery platform founded in 2006.
- EVENTBRITE UK LIMITED (company #07644044) is active, incorporated in the UK on 23 May 2011, with registered office in London.
- Trustpilot page for www.eventbrite.co.uk shows mixed-to-poor reviews (rated around 1.7 in some snapshots) with frequent complaints about organizers, refunds, customer service, and occasional scam accusations against events or the platform.
- Reports exist of scammers cloning legitimate events on the Eventbrite platform to sell fraudulent tickets (Which? investigation, March 2025).
- Eventbrite publishes its own guides on spotting and fighting ticket fraud/scams, emphasizing buying directly from official Eventbrite event pages.
- Reddit discussions treat eventbrite.co.uk links as legitimate for ticket sales; no widespread evidence of the domain itself being a phishing or tech-support scam site.
- Domain has been active for over 19 years (7174 days ≈ 19.6 years) and is not a typosquat.
- Trustpilotopen
"The organiser is so rude, they are obviously scam ..."
- Which?open
"Scammers cloned my event on Eventbrite ... a scammer had cloned the event on Eventbrite and even created a discounted 'early bird' ticket"
- Tripadvisoropen
"Do not use scam company ... refusing to give me a refund as my tickets wouldn’t load so had to buy more ... fell like I have been scammed"
- Google Ads Communityopen
"Eventbrite.co uk is a scam"
EVENTBRITE UK LIMITED, Company number 07644044, incorporated 23 May 2011, registered office 1 More London Place, London SE1 2AF, SIC 63990
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.
- Scam family match: Tech-Support Scam.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://eventbrite.co.uk/
- 2301https://eventbrite.co.uk/
- 3200https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/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 eventbrite.co.uk and not a lookalike like e-ventbrite.co.uk.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.
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 eventbrite.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- eventbrite.co.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. eventbrite.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 185 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- eventbrite.co.uk is 19.7 years old, registered on 11/2/2006 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report eventbrite.co.uk as clean.
- No. eventbrite.co.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- eventbrite.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in CA (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. eventbrite.co.uk 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.
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