Brand impersonation — not the real site
Fake HiAnime streaming clone using the same name and layout as the original site that shut down in March 2026. 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 hianimes.se legit or a scam?
Fake HiAnime streaming clone using the same name and layout as the original site that shut down in March 2026.
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 a free anime streaming service with popular titles and community posts. Strongest signal is the confirmed clone status of hianime.to, the legitimate domain that closed earlier this year. Supporting evidence includes the domain being only 31-92 days old, zero business registration, and five complaints plus three Reddit threads labeling it a fake proxy. Our research found no positive reviews or official endorsement from the original community. These factors together drop trust far below any legitimate streaming 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 hianimes.se, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hianimes.se appears in multiple Reddit threads questioning legitimacy and labeling it non-official/fake proxy of shut-down HiAnime
- Security scans report trust scores of 30/100 and 60/100 with some engines flagging the site; domain age reported as 31-92 days
- Original HiAnime site (primarily hianime.to) displayed goodbye message and shut down around March 13, 2026 per Wikipedia and community posts
- Reddit r/HiAnimeZone (official community) states no official proxy domains beyond specific listed ones and warns against impersonators
- Similar domains (hianimes.to, hianime.al, etc.) also flagged as high risk in ScamChecker subreddit with recent registration
- Site self-describes as free anime streaming with 'only one ad' for safety but no independent positive external reviews found
- Reddit r/ScamCheckeropen
"Score: 96/100. Risk Level: High Risk. Domain Age: 31 days. hianimes.se is likely unsafe , check details in screenshot."
- Reddit r/StreamingAnimeopen
"Its possible the site you found could be fake. As far as I know official site is still down and the mods have not made an official announcement ..."
- Reddit r/HiAnimeZoneopen
"No it's not an official proxy domain . The domains listed below and .sx are the only official domains at the moment."
Uses identical branding, title, and description as the original HiAnime piracy streaming site that shut down in March 2026
Reddit threads in r/ScamChecker, r/StreamingAnime, and r/HiAnimeZone report the site as a non-official fake proxy. Users note the original HiAnime closed in March 2026 and warn against similar new domains. No positive reviews or business records were found in any searched sources.
Scam Network Intelligence
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
- 1301http://hianimes.se/
- 2200https://hianimes.se/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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 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 hianimes.se
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 hianimes.se as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hianimes.se scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hianimes.se presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 46 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. hianimes.se is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianimes.se 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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