Is gogoanime.bid legit or a scam?
A long-running Gogoanime mirror site that provides unlicensed anime streams but carries risks from rogue advertising networks and malicious redirects.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. 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.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over four years, which is unusually long for a piracy mirror. Our analysis confirms it is a clone of the Gogoanime network, a well-known source for unlicensed streaming. While some community discussions on Reddit previously labeled it as a working mirror, security engines like CRDF and alphaMountain.ai have flagged it for malicious or suspicious behavior. The primary risk stems from the site's reliance on aggressive third-party ad networks that frequently trigger deceptive redirects. Because it operates outside of legal frameworks, there is no verified business entity or contact information behind the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for gogoanime.bid, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- gogoanime.bid is a long-running (approx. 4+ years old per cutestat.com and domain age data) mirror/clone of the popular but illegal anime streaming site Gogoanime (also known as Anitaku).
- Heavily discussed on Reddit (r/animepiracy, r/AroundAnimeTV) as one of the "official" or working domains in 2022–2023 during domain migrations from .tel, .sx, etc.
- Like other Gogoanime domains, it is associated with intrusive ads, pop-ups, redirects, and potential malware/adware risks according to security sites like pcrisk.com and myspybot.com.
- No official company; operates as an unlicensed piracy site streaming copyrighted anime without licenses (confirmed across multiple sources).
- Current status mixed: low global traffic rank (~4.3M per SimilarWeb), some sources call it fake in favor of newer mirrors like anitaku.to or gogoanime.news.
- Well-known.dev and cutestat.com have historical scans; uses privacy-protected WHOIS via NameCheap.
- No dedicated Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc profiles found for this exact domain.
- GitHub (aniyomi discussion)open
"gogoanime.bid is a fake website though. Go to https://gogoanime.news so see the real domains."
- pcrisk.comopen
"gogoanime.so is not a trusted website... uses rogue advertising networks: it contains deceptive, dubious advertisements and redirects users to dubious websites."
- myspybot.comopen
"The site displays misleading pop-up ads that fuel phishing and other social engineering hoaxes. It also redirects web traffic to pages that disseminate malware."
One of many frequently changing mirror domains for the long-running Gogoanime piracy network. Multiple sources note domain changes due to takedowns; some label specific .bid as fake while others reference it as official at the time.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://gogoanime.bid/
- 2200http://survey-smiles.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with gogoanime.bid
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags gogoanime.bid as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — gogoanime.bid scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. gogoanime.bid presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- gogoanime.bid is 4.3 years old, registered on 3/2/2022 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged gogoanime.bid as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. gogoanime.bid is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- gogoanime.bid resolves to an IP operated by Limestone Networks, Inc. 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around gogoanime.bid have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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