Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 26 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. 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 marcdubois.ca legit or a scam?
Clone of ytmp3.net YouTube MP3 converter on a 26-day-old domain previously tied to an artist site.
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 site presents itself as a standard YouTube-to-MP3 converter with clean layout and no visible scam overlays. The strongest red flag is that our fingerprinting confirms it is a direct clone of ytmp3.net while the domain itself is only 26 days old. Supporting signals include zero abuse reports on the hosting IP, valid SSL, and clean blocklist status, yet the domain has no traffic ranking and no business registration. The name marcdubois.ca was previously linked to an Ottawa artist, making the sudden switch to a converter tool another mismatch. These factors together lower trust even though no malware or scam reports were located.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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
The screenshot shows a fully rendered, clean YouTube-to-MP3 converter page with standard layout and no visible scam patterns, fake badges, urgency elements, or suspicious overlays.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for marcdubois.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain marcdubois.ca registered approximately 26 days ago
- Currently serves YTMP3 YouTube to MP3 converter with title 'YTMP3 - YouTube to Mp3 Convert (Fast, Secure and 100% Free)'
- Previously associated with Ottawa, Ontario artist Marc Dubois (multiple references 2019–2023 including kingstonprize.ca and Instagram @habitant04)
- pcrisk.com security scan reports trust score 45/100, 0/92 engines flagged
- No scam reports, complaints, Reddit discussions, or business registrations located in web searches
Page title and description closely match those of established YouTube-to-MP3 converter sites such as ytmp3.net
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.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://marcdubois.ca/
- 2301https://ytmp3.im/cross-domain
- 3200https://the-north-star.ca/cross-domain
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 marcdubois.ca
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 marcdubois.ca as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — marcdubois.ca scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. marcdubois.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- marcdubois.ca is 26 days old, registered on 5/6/2026 through Open Provider Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. marcdubois.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- marcdubois.ca 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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