Is location-fmdl.us legit or a scam?
A malicious Apple iCloud clone designed to harvest login credentials through a fake 'Find My' device tracking interface.
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
4 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. 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.
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MT Intelligence
The site is a textbook example of a credential-harvesting operation. It perfectly clones the title and meta description of Apple's official 'Find My' service but hosts it on a non-Apple domain (location-fmdl.us). Our antivirus network has already flagged the site, with Fortinet, Sophos, and Webroot identifying it as a phishing threat. The domain lacks any legitimate business registration and is not indexed in global traffic rankings, which is typical for short-lived fraud sites. Furthermore, our fingerprinting confirms it is a direct clone of icloud.com, intended to deceive users who may have lost their devices.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for location-fmdl.us, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain location-fmdl.us presents a page titled "Find Devices - Apple iCloud" with description: "Find your Apple devices like iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods and more with Find My. Play sound, activate Lost Mode, or locate devices from your
- This title and description are identical to Apple's legitimate Find My service at icloud.com/find.
- No web search results mention the domain location-fmdl.us at all; zero references on scam databases, forums, Reddit, or news sites.
- The subdomain-like structure "location-fmdl" does not match any official Apple domain (official is icloud.com/find or apple.com/icloud).
- Browse attempt on https://location-fmdl.us returned no retrievable content, consistent with short-lived or intermittently active phishing sites.
- No business entity, registration records, or legitimate company associated with the domain could be located.
- Apple frequently warns about phishing sites impersonating iCloud Find My to steal Apple ID credentials.
Page title and description exactly match Apple's official Find My / iCloud page (https://www.icloud.com/find); detected as Apple impersonation/clone attempt
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.
- Page impersonates Apple on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://location-fmdl.us/
- 2200https://www.icloud.com/findcross-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.
- Page claims to be Apple.
- 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.
- Page claims to be Apple.
- 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 location-fmdl.us
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 location-fmdl.us as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — location-fmdl.us scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. location-fmdl.us presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 88 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged location-fmdl.us as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. location-fmdl.us is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- location-fmdl.us resolves to an IP operated by PDR 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 21, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around location-fmdl.us 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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