Is foursquare.com legit or a scam?
Foursquare is a highly reputable location intelligence platform with over 24 years of domain history and zero security flags.
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. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot 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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The page displays a professional, fully-rendered corporate website for Foursquare with no visual indicators of scamming or phishing.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional high-quality design with consistent branding
Functional navigation menu with multiple corporate categories
Clear call-to-action buttons for sales and free trials
No deceptive urgency tactics or fake trust badges visible
Layout matches the established corporate identity of Foursquare
MT Intelligence
This domain has been registered for over 8,800 days, which is a massive indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our antivirus network shows a perfect 0/92 clean record, and the site is ranked within the global top-100k for web traffic. The page content correctly reflects the company's pivot from consumer apps to enterprise geospatial data. Business registration records confirm Foursquare Labs, Inc. is an active U.S. corporation with hundreds of employees. While some consumer review sites show mixed ratings regarding customer support, there is no evidence of fraudulent or malicious activity.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for foursquare.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Foursquare.com is the official website of Foursquare Labs, Inc., a legitimate geolocation technology company founded in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, headquartered in New York City (with offices in San Francisco and elsewher
- The company pivoted from consumer check-in apps (Foursquare City Guide, Swarm) to an enterprise location intelligence platform providing POI data, foot traffic analytics, and geospatial tools; it has raised significant venture funding from
- Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and SEC Form D filings confirm ongoing operations, acquisitions (e.g., Placed, Factual, Unfolded), patents, and recent activity such as 2024 layoffs of ~25% of workforce.
- BBB profile for Foursquare Labs, Inc. (New York) shows D- rating, not accredited, due to failure to respond to 4 complaints in the last 3 years (file opened 2010).
- Trustpilot page for www.foursquare.com has a low TrustScore of 2/5 based on 73 reviews; Reviews.io shows 5.0/5 from only 2 reviews (one in Arabic seemingly unrelated to the platform).
- No scam reports, fraud alerts, or evidence of phishing/malware associated with foursquare.com itself; one Reddit post references official support emails (privacy@foursquare.com) in a phishing investigation context.
- Domain age of 8853 days (~24 years) aligns with the company's long history; page content matches the official geospatial intelligence platform description.
- Reviews.ioopen
"Foursquare Labs Inc. has collected 2 reviews with an average score of 5.00."
Foursquare Labs, Inc. incorporated in Delaware on or before 2009 (over 5 years ago per SEC filings); also registered in New York. Operating since 2009 with ~300 employees.
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.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://foursquare.com/
- 2200https://foursquare.com/
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 foursquare.com and not a lookalike like f-oursquare.com.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 foursquare.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- foursquare.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. foursquare.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 87 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- foursquare.com is 24.3 years old, registered on 3/25/2002 through Gandi SAS. 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 foursquare.com as clean.
- No. foursquare.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- foursquare.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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.
- Yes. foursquare.com 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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