Critical risk detected
8 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is game-course.ru legit or a scam?
Subscription site for game courses impersonating Minecraft that multiple engines flagged as phishing and malware.
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 page presents itself as an online game-course platform with paid subscriptions and Minecraft references on a non-official domain. Eight antivirus engines detected it as phishing or malicious, including alphaMountain.ai, CyRadar, and SOCRadar. The site lacks any postal address and uses aggressive recurring billing language that starts at 10 rubles then jumps to 499 rubles. No traffic ranking or business registration signals appear, and the domain is not indexed. These concrete signals together indicate a high-risk subscription trap rather than a legitimate service.
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 game-course.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for game-course.ru and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@game-course.ru).
- Phone number listed (461107606109).
- Links to 13 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://game-course.ru/
- 2200https://game-course.ru/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
Subscription trap / negative-option billing
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Do not interact with game-course.ru
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Your card will be charged the full price after the trial
Most subscription traps bill the full amount ($49-$149) 14 days after sign-up, and every month thereafter. "Cancel anytime" often means you must call a foreign support line that's deliberately hard to reach.
- If you already signed up — call your bank today
Ask your bank to block future charges from the merchant and dispute any charges already made. Many banks will issue a new card number to prevent recurring billing. Save the confirmation email as evidence.
- OpenReport the billing scheme
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or your national consumer-protection body — subscription traps are specifically illegal in most jurisdictions when the auto-bill terms aren't clearly disclosed.
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 flags game-course.ru as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — game-course.ru scored 14/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. game-course.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 61 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 9 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged game-course.ru as malicious or suspicious (8 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. game-course.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- game-course.ru resolves to an IP operated by Selectel Network in RU (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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