No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is match.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 28-year-old dating site with clean antivirus and IP checks but user complaints about fake profiles and billing.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain is over 28 years old and belongs to the well-known Match Group, which matches the visual analysis of a professional landing page. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged the site, and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. The evidence package confirms this is the original Match.com rather than a clone. While there are user complaints about fake profiles and an older FTC lawsuit regarding platform practices, these do not indicate the site itself is malicious or fraudulent.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully rendered, professional Match.com landing page with standard signup form and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for match.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Launched April 21, 1995; 31 years old as of 2026
- - Owned by Match Group, LLC (parent company of multiple dating services)
- - FTC filed lawsuit in 2019 against Match.com's owner alleging practices that exposed users to romance scammers (25-30% of daily registrations allegedly fraudulent per lawsuit)
- - Official help pages address phishing scam emails and reporting inappropriate behavior
- - Numerous user reports on Reddit, ConsumerAffairs, and elsewhere citing fake profiles, billing issues, and romance scams occurring on the platform
- - Domain age given as 10223 days (approximately 28 years)
- Redditopen
"Match.com is a thief site . I suggest you to try elsewhere. They are fraud. they just take your money and close your profile. They are a criminal ..."
- FTC via consumer.ftc.govopen
"Today, the FTC announced a lawsuit against Match.com, challenging several of Match’s business practices, including ones that the FTC says exposed customers to romance scammers."
- CBS Newsopen
"Between 2013 and at least mid-2018," the lawsuit alleged, "consumers who were considering purchasing a Match.com subscription were generally not aware that as many as 25-30 percent of Match.com members who registered each day were using Mat"
- ConsumerAffairsopen
"Total scam . Seems like it's all fake bots trying to keep you engaged in order to get more money by renewing your account."
- Redditopen
"I'm returning to the dating scene after a hiatus of a several years. Many years ago, I utilized match.com and eharmony and had two long term relationships ..."
Owned by Match Group, LLC; founded 1995, headquartered in Dallas, Texas; trademark held by Match Group, LLC
Our research found four scam-related mentions on Reddit, ConsumerAffairs, and news outlets citing fake profiles, billing complaints, and a 2019 FTC lawsuit against Match Group practices. One positive Reddit review noted successful past relationships through the service. The domain is confirmed as the original Match.com owned by Match Group, LLC since 1995.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://match.com/
- 2403https://www.match.com/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 match.com and not a lookalike like m-atch.com.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.
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 match.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- match.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. match.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 38 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- match.com is 28.0 years old, registered on 6/2/1998 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report match.com as clean.
- No. match.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- match.com 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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