Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of UK bank HBOS using typosquat domain to impersonate a banking or investment entity; no legitimate business exists. 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 hbosqrosegroup.de legit or a scam?
Clone of UK bank HBOS using typosquat domain to impersonate a banking or investment entity; no legitimate business exists.
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 domain hbosqrosegroup.de is a confirmed clone of hbos.co.uk, combining the name of a well-known UK banking brand (HBOS, part of Lloyds Banking Group) with a fabricated corporate suffix ('qrosegroup'). Our scam-network fingerprint detected both clone and typosquat signals. No legitimate business registration exists for 'HBOS Q Rose Group' in German or international databases. The pattern—bank name plus unrelated group suffix—is a textbook phishing and impersonation tactic used to harvest credentials or funds from banking customers. ESET flagged the domain as malware, and the hosting IP shows no abuse history, suggesting the infrastructure is freshly provisioned for this campaign. The absence of any legitimate online footprint, business details, or search indexing further confirms this is a fraudulent impersonation site.
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 hbosqrosegroup.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- No search results for the exact domain hbosqrosegroup.de across general web, scam databases, Reddit, Trustpilot, or review sites.
- No mentions of 'HBOS Q Rose Group' or similar entity in business registries, news, or company directories.
- HBOS is a well-known UK banking brand (now under Lloyds Banking Group); the addition of 'qrosegroup' appears designed to mimic a corporate or investment entity.
- No official website content, about page, or business details indexed by search engines.
- Domain has no visible online footprint, reviews, complaints, or references as of current search data.
- Similar patterns (bank name + unrelated group suffix) are commonly used in phishing, investment, or impersonation scams targeting banking customers.
Domain name combines 'HBOS' (major UK bank, part of Lloyds) with 'qrosegroup' (evoking legitimate Rose Group companies); no matching legitimate business exists.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, business registries, and general web sources for hbosqrosegroup.de and found no scam reports, complaints, or positive reviews. No legitimate business registration exists for 'HBOS Q Rose Group' in German or international company databases. The domain has no search indexing, news mentions, or official business details. This absence of any legitimate online footprint, combined with the confirmed clone and typosquat signals, is consistent with a newly deployed phishing impersonation site rather than an established business.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://hbosqrosegroup.de/
- 2403https://hbosqrosegroup.de/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
3 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 hbos.co.uk.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of hbos.co.uk.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
3 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 hbos.co.uk.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of hbos.co.uk.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with hbosqrosegroup.de
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.
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 hbosqrosegroup.de as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hbosqrosegroup.de scored 14/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hbosqrosegroup.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hbosqrosegroup.de as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hbosqrosegroup.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hbosqrosegroup.de resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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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