Is freemike.org safe?
http://freemike.org/
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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
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.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 88/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- 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
Antivirus Engines
1/ 98
detectionsSaved 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
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMalicious | malicious |
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
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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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.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 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
What the site claims
Home | Free Mike
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 68 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The prominent call to action routes to a Change.org petition rather than to any checkout, deposit, or download flow.
- 02The site lists an email address on its own domain, president@freemike.org, which is a positive consistency signal for an advocacy committee.
- 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.
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.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainfreemike.org
- Redirects towww.freemike.org
- Hosted byOVH SAS
- Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · download.odoo.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 8, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 17, 2026Saved 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (president@freemike.org).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.freemike.org.
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
- 1301http://freemike.org/
- 2200https://www.freemike.org/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, 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
unknownComplaints, 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.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 98 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Dec 30, 2025 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- 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
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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final 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.
09 · Community
Community
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