No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is gazeta.pl legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Established Polish news portal operating since 2001 with clean scans and legitimate business registration.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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 screenshot shows a legitimate and fully-rendered Polish news portal (Gazeta.pl) with a standard GDPR privacy consent overlay.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsLarge GDPR/cookie consent modal covering the main content
Professional news portal layout with weather and sports widgets
Consistent branding for the Polish news site Gazeta.pl
Functional navigation elements for mail, forum, and subscriptions
Intelligence
The domain registered in 2001 and ranks among Poland's major news outlets. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines. The hosting IP carries a zero abuse score with no reports. Visual analysis confirms a fully rendered professional news layout with standard navigation and widgets. Evidence shows the site belongs to Agora S.A., a Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed company. Two Reddit threads note that scammers occasionally abuse free @gazeta.pl email addresses for phishing attempts, yet the domain and website remain legitimate.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for gazeta.pl, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Gazeta.pl is one of the largest and most established internet portals in Poland, operated by the publicly traded media company Agora S.A.
- The domain has been registered since 2001 and serves as a major news outlet and free email service provider.
- Because it offers free email accounts to the public, the domain is frequently used by third-party scammers for phishing and 'money mule' recruitment emails.
- Security reports indicate the domain itself is legitimate and has a low risk profile, despite the abuse of its email service by bad actors.
- It is the digital counterpart to the major Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, though the two were split into separate online entities in 2008.
- Reddit (r/PartneredYoutube)open
"Got an email today from 'tivepuenn@gazeta.pl' ! I'm pretty sure is a pishing scam atempt... Best Regards, Emmett from DMCA."
- Reddit (r/poland)open
"The senders email looks legit, as the domain gazeta.pl seemed like a real website... they're reaching out on behalf of a different company, 'Integral sp z. o. o.'"
- IPQualityScoreopen
"Gazeta.pl is a popular email service commonly used for personal account creation. Recent quality reports have classified gazeta.pl with a low risk profile."
Owned by Agora S.A., a major media group listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE: AGO).
Our research found two Reddit posts noting that scammers have sent emails from @gazeta.pl addresses. One post describes a suspected phishing attempt; another questions whether a sender using the domain was legitimate. A reputation service classifies the domain as low-risk. Business records confirm the site belongs to Agora S.A., a major Polish media company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The domain itself shows no direct scam reports against the website.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 1, 2001Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 26 years old today.
- Jul 13, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
gazeta.pl has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (12.07.2026).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://gazeta.pl/
- 2301https://www.gazeta.pl/
- 3200https://www.gazeta.pl/0,0.html
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 gazeta.pl and not a lookalike like g-azeta.pl.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.
Final Verdict
Gazeta.pl is a long-established Polish news portal and email provider. The domain has operated since 2001 under Agora S.A., a publicly listed media company. Two Reddit posts mention scammers abusing free email accounts from the domain, but the site itself shows no malicious indicators.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 gazeta.pl, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 25.5 years old, registered on January 1, 2001 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- gazeta.pl passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from gazeta.pl), 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 gazeta.pl is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report gazeta.pl as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — gazeta.pl 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.
- gazeta.pl is 25.5 years old, registered on January 1, 2001 through home.pl sp. z o.o.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — gazeta.pl presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, valid for another 65 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".
- gazeta.pl resolves to an IP operated by Agora TC Sp.z.o.o. in PL (Commercial). 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.
- Yes — gazeta.pl ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 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 gazeta.pl has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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