Possible brand impersonation
Clone of friv.com that hosts unblocked browser games and carries the ad-scam risks the official site explicitly warns about. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Is friv.cm legit or a scam?
Clone of friv.com that hosts unblocked browser games and carries the ad-scam risks the official site explicitly warns about.
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
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a Friv gaming portal with hundreds of free titles and school-unblocked claims, directly mimicking the branding and game list of the legitimate friv.com. Our fingerprinting confirms it is a clone, and the official Friv site states that most such fakes exist to trick users through adverts. No malware detections or abuse reports appear on the hosting IP or in our antivirus network. The domain itself is over 15 years old with valid SSL, which reduces some risk but does not change the impersonation finding. Because the page loads external ad networks and lacks any contact information, we treat it as a moderate-risk mirror rather than a safe alternative.
Website Preview
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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 friv.cm, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- friv.cm hosts hundreds of free browser games described as 'unblocked for school' with categories including adventure, running, horror, girl games, and sports.
- Site explicitly references popular titles like Minecraft, Among Us, Subway Surfers, and Super Mario Flash on its pages.
- Official friv.com states: 'There are a lot of fake Friv sites out there, so please be careful' and '99% of these fake Friv sites were designed to trick and scam users' via adverts.
- friv.cm appears in Facebook page 'Friv Games (@FrivUnblocked)' promoting 'Play Classic Friv Games for Kids... at Friv.cm'.
- Domain has global traffic rank of approximately 190,967 and is hosted in Bulgaria per siteindices data.
- Multiple mirror/clone-style Friv sites exist (e.g. friv-2017.com, frivplus.com) with similar disclaimers about fakes.
- No specific scam reports, complaints, or Trustpilot reviews found for friv.cm in search results.
Mimics friv.com branding, game selection, categories (e.g. Minecraft, Subway Surfers), and 'unblocked for school' descriptions; official friv.com warns of many fake Friv sites monetized via ads.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://friv.cm/
- 2301https://friv.cm/
- 3200https://www.friv.cm/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
- Page claims to be Minecraft.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
0 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.
- Page claims to be Minecraft.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat friv.cm as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked friv.cm as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- friv.cm currently scores 49/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. friv.cm presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 37 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- friv.cm is 15.6 years old, registered on 11/10/2010 through PROXYTLD SARL. 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 friv.cm as clean.
- No. friv.cm is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- friv.cm resolves to an IP operated by NS1 in BG (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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