No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is last.fm legit or a scam?
Last.fm is an established music-discovery platform with 24-year history, clean security scan, and active UK business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Last.fm is a well-known music service that has operated continuously since 2002 and is registered as Last.fm Limited in England & Wales. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 91 engines, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. The domain is 8,845 days old (over 24 years), registered through MarkMonitor Inc., a registrar used by major legitimate brands. Web research confirms the service is legitimate, with a documented history including acquisition by CBS Interactive in 2007 and return to independence in May 2026. The site does carry a historical data breach from 2012 affecting 43 million accounts, but this is public knowledge and does not indicate current malicious intent. User complaints on community sites focus on moderation and feature requests, not fraud.
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 last.fm, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Founded in UK in 2002; acquired by CBS Interactive in 2007 for £140m; became independent again in May 2026.
- Major data breach in March 2012 affecting ~43 million accounts (usernames, emails, unsalted MD5 passwords); full details public in 2016.
- Registered as Last.fm Limited (Company No. 4569646) in England & Wales with London address.
- User complaints on Trustpilot and Reddit about moderation (e.g. handling of predators, bans), declining activity, fake scrobbles, and occasional malware pop-up reports.
- No direct scam reports found; described as legitimate music scrobbling / recommendation service in multiple sources.
- Active community on r/lastfm discussing features, stats, and issues; still used for music tracking with integrations to Spotify etc.
- Historical controversies include 2009 RIAA data-sharing allegations (denied by Last.fm) and user dissatisfaction with redesigns.
Last.fm Limited, Company Number 4569646, registered in England & Wales. Founded 2002; independent again as of May 2026 after CBS/Paramount ownership.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for Last.fm and found no active scam reports or fraud allegations. The service is confirmed as a legitimate music-discovery platform founded in the UK in 2002, with documented corporate history (CBS Interactive acquisition in 2007, return to independence in May 2026). Business registration as Last.fm Limited (Company No. 4569646) in England & Wales is active and verified. A historical 2012 data breach affecting ~43 million accounts is public knowledge and does not indicate current malicious operation. User complaints on community sites relate to moderation policies and feature requests, not fraud.
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.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://last.fm/
- 2200https://www.last.fm/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 last.fm and not a lookalike like l-ast.fm.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 found no threat indicators on last.fm. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- last.fm passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. last.fm presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, expiring in 262 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- last.fm is 24.2 years old, registered on 3/20/2002 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report last.fm as clean.
- No. last.fm is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- last.fm resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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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