Brand impersonation — not the real site
Typosquatting clone of GitHub.com that impersonates the official developer platform with almost identical branding and content. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is github.co legit or a scam?
Typosquatting clone of GitHub.com that impersonates the official developer platform with almost identical branding and content.
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 loads content that directly copies GitHub's homepage, navigation, and marketing text while using the domain github.co instead of the real github.com. Our fingerprinting confirms it as both a clone and typosquat of the official domain. One antivirus engine flagged it malicious and another suspicious, while the domain shows no traffic ranking or business records. No scam reports exist yet, but the impersonation alone makes this unsafe for any user interaction. The combination of domain mismatch and copied design is the strongest indicator of risk.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for github.co, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Web searches for 'github.co' return results exclusively about github.com (official site) with no direct references to github.co
- No scam reports, reviews, complaints, or Reddit discussions specifically mentioning github.co found across multiple targeted searches
- Searches including 'github.co scam', 'github.co review', 'github.co complaint', and site:reddit.com yielded zero relevant hits for the .co domain
- Official GitHub domain confirmed as github.com in Wikipedia, status pages, and all primary results
- Domain github.co matches common typosquat pattern for github.com (TLD substitution)
- No evidence of business registration, ownership, or legitimate use of github.co in search results
Domain github.co is nearly identical to official github.com except for TLD (.co vs .com)
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (83.7222 16.1165).
- Links to 72 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://github.co/
- 2302https://github.co/
- 3200https://github.com/?ref=github.cocross-domain
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.
- Domain is a typosquat of github.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of github.com.
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.
- Domain is a typosquat of github.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of github.com.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with github.co
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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 flags github.co as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — github.co scored 10/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. github.co presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft TLS G2 RSA CA OCSP 16, expiring in 163 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged github.co as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. github.co is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- github.co resolves to an IP operated by Microsoft Corporation in US (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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