Is fbox.city legit or a scam?
A pirate streaming portal and fmovies.to clone that provides free movies while operating without legal licensing or verifiable business credentials.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
A pirate streaming portal and fmovies.to clone that provides free movies while operating without legal licensing or verifiable business credentials. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The site operates within the high-risk pirate streaming ecosystem and is identified as a clone of the well-known fmovies.to network. Our antivirus network shows flags from Webroot, alphaMountain.ai, and Gridinsoft, which categorize the domain as suspicious or malicious. Although the domain is over 800 days old, it lacks any verifiable business registration, and the provided US address appears to be fabricated. The site's own history admits to copyright lawsuits and previous blocks by major search engines. Users should be aware that such sites often rely on aggressive advertising redirects that can lead to more dangerous content.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fbox.city, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- fbox.city is a free, no-registration, ad-supported streaming site offering latest movies and TV shows in claimed HD quality; part of the pirate streaming ecosystem with predecessors like fbox.to that faced shutdowns.
- Site history section admits facing copyright infringement lawsuits from major studios (Paramount, Sony, Universal) and Google blocks in 2023; relaunched on fbox.city in early 2024 claiming legal compliance while continuing to stream the sam
- Scamadviser rates it "very likely not a scam but legit and reliable" with positive highlights (valid SSL, positive reviews, entertainment category).
- Gridinsoft gives it a low 35/100 trust score, labels it a "Suspicious Website" due to low third-party reputation, limited review history, hidden ownership (Namecheap + privacy protection), and recommends blocking.
- Heavy self-promotion across YouTube, Linktree, Issuu, Glassdoor (fake-looking "employee" reviews praising quality), Reviews.io, and other profiles using identical marketing text; lists a US address that appears fabricated for legitimacy.
- Domain approximately 2+ years old (consistent with ~813 days provided); no major malware, phishing, or user scam complaints found in searches, but typical risks of pirate streaming sites (ads, redirects, legal exposure) noted in related dis
- No verifiable legitimate business registration tied to the streaming operation; address and company claims unconfirmed.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Fbox.city Suspicious Website... 35/100 trust score... classified as suspicious website... low third-party reputation score... Gridinsoft blocks this website because it was classified as suspicious website."
Lists physical address 881 Slawson Ln, Lincoln, CA 95648 and phone; FBOX LLC mentioned in D&B for software services but no clear link to the streaming site. Likely fake or unverified.
Multiple sources describe Fbox as a clone or successor created by the makers of Fmovies; site itself lists similar pirate streaming alternatives like 123Movies and Putlocker; Reddit users link it to Fmovies ecosystem.
Scam Network Intelligence
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (916-408-0121).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://fbox.city/
- 2200https://fbox.city/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with fbox.city
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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.
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 flags fbox.city as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — fbox.city scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. fbox.city presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 44 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- fbox.city is 2.2 years old, registered on 3/28/2024 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged fbox.city as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. fbox.city is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- fbox.city resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (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.
- 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 fbox.city 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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