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How we checked

Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

  • Antivirus (68 of 98 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
  • Google Safe Browsing: completed
  • page reading: completed
  • page capture: completed
  • domain records: completed
  • web research: completed
Verdict

FreeMike is a non-commercial advocacy site for a Belgian citizen imprisoned in Russia, with no scam mechanics found

freemike.org presents itself as the information and campaigning page of the "Support Committee for the Release of Mikhaïl 'Mike' Lochtchinine", a Belgian citizen described on the page as sentenced to 16 years in Russia over an alleged €211 transfer. The site's visible purpose is advocacy: it asks visitors to sign a petition, which routes to Change.org, and it is supported by ordinary privacy policy and terms links to Google's policy pages. Nothing on the reviewed page offers goods, takes payment, or pushes downloads. The main reasons this is not rated higher are contextual rather than behavioural: the registrable domain is young, and one saved antivirus observation carries a stale adverse flag. Those two facts alone do not describe a fraud mechanism, so the site lands in the safe band on the strength of a verifiable own-domain contact, a postal address, clean browsing and TLS results, and a moderation-appropriate call to action.

You can use freemike.org normally: it is an advocacy and information page whose only call to action is a Change.org petition, and no payment, download, or credential form was found. Treat the contact details and case description as the committee's own claims rather than independently verified facts, remember the domain is still relatively new, and if you choose to sign the petition, review Change.org's own privacy terms before submitting your details there.

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freemike.org: Safe — MalwareTips website safety report

Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

Score explained

Why 88/100

Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.

What pulled the score down

  1. Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.

What pushed the score up

  • SupportsThe site lists an email address on its own domain, president@freemike.org, which is a positive consistency signal for an advocacy committee.
  • SupportsA postal address is visible on the page, which is unusual for disposable scam pages and consistent with the stated committee purpose.
  • SupportsThe prominent call to action routes to a Change.org petition rather than to any checkout, deposit, or download flow.
  • SupportsSafe Browsing returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.

No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

freemike.org presents itself as the information and campaigning page of the "Support Committee for the Release of Mikhaïl 'Mike' Lochtchinine", a Belgian citizen described on the page as sentenced to 16 years in Russia over an alleged €211 transfer. The site's visible purpose is advocacy: it asks visitors to sign a petition, which routes to Change.org, and it is supported by ordinary privacy policy and terms links to Google's policy pages. Nothing on the reviewed page offers goods, takes payment, or pushes downloads. The main reasons this is not rated higher are contextual rather than behavioural: the registrable domain is young, and one saved antivirus observation carries a stale adverse flag. Those two facts alone do not describe a fraud mechanism, so the site lands in the safe band on the strength of a verifiable own-domain contact, a postal address, clean browsing and TLS results, and a moderation-appropriate call to action.

A campaigning page, not a commercial or transactional site

The reviewed page identifies the case it campaigns on: Mikhaïl "Mike" Lochtchinine, a Belgian citizen, reportedly sentenced to 16 years in Russia for "high treason" over an alleged €211 transfer to a Ukrainian ex-girlfriend. That framing is consistent with an advocacy committee rather than a storefront, service, or prize/lottery page, and there is no offer of value exchange on the reviewed page.

The only prominent action the page invites is "Sign the Petition to free Mike", which links out to Change.org. That is a petition destination rather than a checkout, deposit, or download flow, so the visitor's typical next step is a public petition signature with the third party rather than a payment or account creation on this domain.

The page also links to a Privacy Policy and a Terms of Service, both of which point at Google's policy host. Those are standard policy surfaces rather than commercial conversion points, and there is no cart, price list, subscription form, or wallet prompt on the reviewed evidence.

Own-domain contact, a postal address, and no adverse commercial findings

The site shows a contact email on its own domain, president@freemike.org, and a postal address on the page. For a low-traffic advocacy site, an own-domain contact plus an address is the kind of detail that some scam operations omit, though on its own it only confirms the site presents itself as a real committee.

No cross-domain commercial funnels, affiliate redirects, or off-domain email addresses were recorded for this target, and there was no evidence of payment pages, subscriptions, or account creation. The commercial profile is therefore effectively non-monetised in the evidence reviewed.

Clean technical checks and one stale antivirus flag

The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no technical signal of malware delivery, credential harvesting, or interception on the reviewed connection.

One antivirus family, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, had an adverse result in a saved observation, but that result is marked stale and is a single engine's historical flag rather than a current detection. On its own it is not evidence of a live threat, and it is the main reason the score is not at the very top of the safe band.

The registrable domain is only 312 days old, which limits the depth of track record available, but domain youth is context rather than a scam mechanism. Combined with the absence of commercial risk mechanics and the presence of ordinary contact details, the operator side of the risk picture is quiet.

Why the score is 88

The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

1/ 98

detections

Saved analysis from December 30, 2025 - stale

1 engine flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
1
Suspicious
0
Total
98
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMaliciousmalicious
All 98 engine results
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Malicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
  • AlphaSOC - Unrated
  • Antiy-AVL - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
  • Artists Against 419 - Clean
  • AutoShun - Unrated
  • Axur - Unrated
  • benkow.cc - Clean
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • Cluster25 - Unrated
  • CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Clean
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Feodo Tracker - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
  • Fortinet - Clean
  • Fortra - Unrated
  • G-Data - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
  • Google Safe Browsing - Clean
  • GreenSnow - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - Unrated
  • Heimdal Security - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
  • IPsum - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - Clean
  • Kaspersky - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • malwares.com URL checker - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - Clean
  • Rising - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - Unrated
  • Sangfor - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - Unrated
  • Scantitan - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - Clean
  • Seclookup - Clean
  • securolytics - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Clean
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • Spam404 - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • Threatsourcing - Clean
  • Trustwave - Clean
  • Underworld - Unrated
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Unrated
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

How security vendors categorise this site

  • Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites

Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
freemike.org
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Mikhaïl "Mike" Lochtchinine is a Belgian citizen who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia for "high treason", allegedly over a €211 transfer to his Ukrainian ex-girlfriend.

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Mikhaïl "Mike" Lochtchinine is a Belgian citizen who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia for "high treason", allegedly over a €211 transfer to his Ukrainian ex-girlfriend.

What the page says about itself

What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.

Page title
Home | Free Mike
Meta description
This is the homepage of the website

Pages we read

  • Main page/Read
  • About page/aboutRead
  • Contact page/contactusRead

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Home | Free Mike

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 68 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. What remains unverified

    1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Free

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The prominent call to action routes to a Change.org petition rather than to any checkout, deposit, or download flow.
  2. 02The site lists an email address on its own domain, president@freemike.org, which is a positive consistency signal for an advocacy committee.
  3. 03A postal address is visible on the page, which is unusual for disposable scam pages and consistent with the stated committee purpose.

Web research findings

Independent findings for freemike.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for freemike.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

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

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

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainfreemike.org
  2. Redirects towww.freemike.org
  3. Hosted byOVH SAS
  4. Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · download.odoo.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Dec 8, 2025
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 months old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 17, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainpresident@freemike.org, info@freemike.org
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (president@freemike.org).
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age10 months old
RegistrarGandi SAS
RegisteredDec 8, 2025
ExpiresDec 8, 2027
Last updatedSep 14, 2026
RegistrantNot published (privacy or GDPR redaction)
Owner privacyUnknown (owner not published)
Nameserversns-124-b.gandi.netns-197-c.gandi.netns-241-a.gandi.net
Verified ownerNo owner has verified this domain on MalwareTips
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR2
IssuedOct 4, 2026 (13 days before this scan)
ExpiresJan 2, 2027 (76d)
Self-signedNo
Trusted chainYes: our check verified the issuer chain
Matches hostnameYes

Certificate issued for www.freemike.org.

Hosting & Technology
HostingOVH SAS
Server IP51.83.122.203
Server locationFrance (FR)
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSOdoo
PopularityNot in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Technologies and payments

Scripts, fonts and CDNs

  • Google Fonts

Payment providers the page loads

None seen among the outside domains we saved.

Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://freemike.org/
  • 2200https://www.freemike.org/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPOVH SAS
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result1 of 98 engines flagged
CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Dec 30, 2025
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

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.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on freemike.org and not a lookalike like f-reemike.org or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. 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.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is freemike.org legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on freemike.org, so it appears legitimate. and the domain is 10 months old, registered on December 8, 2025. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is freemike.org safe to use?
freemike.org has a Safety Score of 88/100 (Safe). The saved checks and analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like freemike.org still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from freemike.org), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from freemike.org is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has freemike.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 98 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged freemike.org, 1 of them as outright malicious in the saved analysis from December 30, 2025. None of these detections came from the engines we treat as highest-confidence, so they are weighed alongside the other checks rather than on their own.
Is freemike.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — freemike.org is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the freemike.org domain?
freemike.org is 10 months old, registered on December 8, 2025 through Gandi SAS. A registration history of under two years is neither a strong positive nor a strong negative signal on its own.
Does freemike.org have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — freemike.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 76 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is freemike.org hosted?
freemike.org resolves to an IP operated by OVH SAS in FR (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the freemike.org report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 17, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about freemike.org has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
88/100
Safe

FreeMike is a non-commercial advocacy site for a Belgian citizen imprisoned in Russia, with no scam mechanics found

Saved capturefreemike.orgCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

freemike.org presents itself as the information and campaigning page of the "Support Committee for the Release of Mikhaïl 'Mike' Lochtchinine", a Belgian citizen described on the page as sentenced to 16 years in Russia over an alleged €211 transfer. The site's visible purpose is advocacy: it asks visitors to sign a petition, which routes to Change.org, and it is supported by ordinary privacy policy and terms links to Google's policy pages. Nothing on the reviewed page offers goods, takes payment, or pushes downloads. The main reasons this is not rated higher are contextual rather than behavioural: the registrable domain is young, and one saved antivirus observation carries a stale adverse flag. Those two facts alone do not describe a fraud mechanism, so the site lands in the safe band on the strength of a verifiable own-domain contact, a postal address, clean browsing and TLS results, and a moderation-appropriate call to action.

Recommended actionYou can use freemike.org normally: it is an advocacy and information page whose only call to action is a Change.org petition, and no payment, download, or credential form was found. Treat the contact details and case description as the committee's own claims rather than independently verified facts, remember the domain is still relatively new, and if you choose to sign the petition, review Change.org's own privacy terms before submitting your details there.
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