Security Review

Is fortnitechecking.top legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Fake Fortnite inventory-checker phishing site designed to harvest Epic Games login credentials; flagged by six antivirus engines.

fortnitechecking.topScanned 13h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 18
Category tags
phishingcredential-harvesting#Phishing#Clone Site92% MT confidence
Technical red flags (3)

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.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
13/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
66 days old
Registered Apr 7, 2026
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 92% confidence
DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

12 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. 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.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust18/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site impersonates Epic Games' official Fortnite branding and claims to offer an inventory-value checker, but operates from a non-official domain (fortnitechecking.top) registered just 66 days ago. Six established antivirus engines—alphaMountain.ai, Criminal IP, Emsisoft, Fortinet, G-Data, and Gridinsoft—all classify it as phishing. The page explicitly instructs users to 'sign in' and 'establish a secure connection' to view their inventory, a classic credential-harvesting pattern. No legitimate contact information, business registration, or social proof appears anywhere on the page. The domain has zero traffic ranking and zero abuse reports on its hosting IP, consistent with a newly-deployed phishing campaign.
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Page Content

The page mimics Epic Games' visual branding and Fortnite terminology, presenting itself as an official inventory-value checker. It prominently displays a 'SIGN IN' call-to-action and promises users can 'establish a secure connection' to view their locker's market value. The body text uses phrases like 'No hidden fees, no obligations' to lower user suspicion. A copyright notice falsely claims '© 2026, Epic Games, Inc.' to reinforce the impersonation.

Infrastructure

The domain uses valid SSL encryption (Let's Encrypt, 82 days to expiry), which is common for phishing sites to appear legitimate. Hosting IP 172.67.196.159 has a clean abuse score (0/100) and no reported abuse, suggesting the attacker used a reputable hosting provider. External resources load from legitimate CDNs (Google Fonts, Cloudflare, Microsoft Clarity), a tactic used to bypass basic reputation checks.

Domain History

Registered 66 days ago via PDR Ltd. with privacy protection disabled. The domain has never been indexed by search engines (zero traffic ranking), indicating it is either newly deployed or actively hidden from organic discovery. The short age combined with phishing-specific infrastructure is a hallmark of disposable phishing campaigns.

Web Reputation

Six antivirus engines flag the site as phishing: alphaMountain.ai, Criminal IP, Emsisoft, Fortinet, G-Data, and Gridinsoft. Browser blocklists remain clean, likely because the domain is too new to have been widely reported. No legitimate business registration, contact details, or social media presence exists.

Risk Factors
7
  • Six antivirus engines (alphaMountain.ai, Criminal IP, Emsisoft, Fortinet, G-Data, Gridinsoft) classify the site as phishing.
  • Domain registered only 66 days ago with no legitimate business history or traffic ranking.
  • Impersonates Epic Games and Fortnite branding on a non-official domain to deceive users.
  • Requests users to sign in with Epic Games credentials on a third-party site—classic credential-harvesting pattern.
  • No contact information, business registration, postal address, or social media links present.
  • False copyright notice ('© 2026, Epic Games, Inc.') reinforces the impersonation.
  • Page uses legitimate CDNs and valid SSL to appear trustworthy while hosting malicious intent.
Positive Signals
3
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt reduces some technical red flags.
  • Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
  • No malware or exploit code detected in our sandbox analysis.
AI Recommendation
Do not enter your Epic Games login credentials on this site. If you have already signed in, change your Epic Games password immediately and enable two-factor authentication. Report the domain to Epic Games' security team and your browser's abuse-reporting system.
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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fortnitechecking.top, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
2 months
Registered Apr 2026
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No independent review data available for this domain.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
13 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

12Malicious1Suspicious50Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
alphaMountain.ai
Malicious· phishing
Criminal IP
Malicious· phishing
Emsisoft
Malicious· phishing
Fortinet
Malicious· phishing
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Gridinsoft
Malicious· phishing
Kaspersky
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· phishing
Netcraft
Malicious· malicious
SOCRadar
Malicious· phishing
Sophos
Malicious· phishing
Webroot
Malicious· malicious
ESET
Suspicious· suspicious

13 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates Fortnite on a non-official domain.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age66 days old
RegistrarPDR Ltd.
RegisteredApr 7, 2026
ExpiresApr 7, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresSep 3, 2026 (82d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://fortnitechecking.top/
  • 2200https://fortnitechecking.top/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

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.

Top match: Brand Impersonation
Brand Impersonation
High likelihood
60/100
  • Page claims to be Fortnite.
  • AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

  • Do not interact with fortnitechecking.top

    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.

  • Report 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.

    Open

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 fortnitechecking.top as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — fortnitechecking.top scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. fortnitechecking.top presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • fortnitechecking.top is 2 months old, registered on 4/7/2026 through PDR Ltd.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 13 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged fortnitechecking.top as malicious or suspicious (12 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. fortnitechecking.top is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • fortnitechecking.top 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 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around fortnitechecking.top have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·fortnitechecking.top
DANGEROUS

This is a phishing site impersonating Fortnite's inventory checker to steal login credentials. Six major antivirus engines flag it as phishing, the domain is only 66 days old, and it requests users to sign in with their Epic Games account on a non-official domain.

Do not enter your Epic Games login credentials on this site. If you have already signed in, change your Epic Games password immediately and enable two-factor authentication. Report the domain to Epic Games' security team and your browser's abuse-reporting system.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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