No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is lunarscans.org legit or a scam?
Scanlation site offering free manga and anime with a clean 3-year domain history and no scam reports found.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a simple dark-themed page with buttons linking to free manga, anime, and novel reading, consistent with a scanlation group. Strongest positive signal is the domain age of over three years combined with zero scam reports or complaints in our research. Supporting signals include a clean hosting IP with minimal abuse history and two positive mentions on independent review sites and Reddit. The low-effort visual layout and lack of traffic indexing lower confidence slightly but do not indicate malice. No login forms, redirects, or malicious code patterns were detected.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Page shows a low-effort dark template with generic free-content buttons and placeholder side shapes. No major brand cloning, trust seals, timers, or overlays are visible.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsDark-themed page with five large centered buttons promising 'READ FREE MANGA ONLINE', 'WATCH 9ANIME FREE', 'WATCH FREE ANIME', 'READ FULL NOVEL ONLINE', and 'FREE ONLINE READING'
Blurred solid blue rounded rectangles flanking both sides of the button stack, resembling placeholder or incomplete UI elements
Minimal layout containing only a domain header, 'Related Searches:' label, and 'Privacy policy' footer link
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for lunarscans.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain lunarscans.org associated with Lunar Scans scanlation group on MangaDex (adult/Korean manhwa projects).
- GitHub issue (Aug 2025) reports Lunar Scans source website as closed/down.
- Reddit users reference lunarscans.org positively for early manhwa/pornhwa releases.
- Scamadviser checks on ww16.lunarscans.org and ww25.lunarscans.org conclude the site is legit/safe.
- Site mentioned in Hakuneko GitHub request (2023) as https://lunarscan.org (note singular spelling variant).
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews located in searches.
- Domain age given as 1164 days (~3.2 years); traffic analytics exist for similar lunarscan.org.
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
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 lunarscans.org and not a lookalike like l-unarscans.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 found no threat indicators on lunarscans.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- lunarscans.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 73/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. lunarscans.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- lunarscans.org is 3.2 years old, registered on 3/18/2023 through Dynadot Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. lunarscans.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- lunarscans.org 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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