No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is meetup.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Meetup event platform with a 27-year-old domain, clean security scans, and no malicious flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site displays the authentic Meetup homepage with real event listings and standard social login options. Its domain was registered in August 1998 and has remained active for over 27 years under the same company. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged the page, and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. While some user complaints exist about individuals contacting others through the platform for scams, the site itself is not reported as fraudulent. Business records confirm Meetup, LLC as a real US company founded in 2002 and currently owned by Bending Spoons.
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 meetup.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered August 20, 1998; expires 2026; registrant Meetup, Inc. (US)
- Company founded June 2002 in New York City; currently owned by Bending Spoons (acquired 2024)
- 60+ million users; platform for local groups and events
- BBB lists 124 complaints in last 3 years against Meetup, LLC (not accredited)
- Scamadviser trust score indicates 'Very Likely Safe' with valid SSL and high traffic ranking
- User reports of scammers contacting via platform (crypto, romance) but site itself not flagged as scam
Meetup, LLC; New York, NY; business started 2002, incorporated as LLC 2019; founded June 2002 by Scott Heiferman
Our research found three mentions of scam activity tied to individuals using the platform rather than the site being fraudulent. Reddit users noted scammers initiating contact through Meetup, while Social Catfish advised normal caution when meeting group members in person. Positive feedback highlights real-world benefits such as finding support groups. Business records confirm the company’s long history and current ownership.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (17.7755 14.9741).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://meetup.com/
- 2308https://meetup.com/
- 3200https://www.meetup.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 meetup.com and not a lookalike like m-eetup.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.
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 meetup.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- meetup.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. meetup.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2025 Q4, expiring in 224 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- meetup.com is 27.8 years old, registered on 8/20/1998 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 meetup.com as clean.
- No. meetup.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- meetup.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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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