Critical risk detected
Mentalabs.org lures users with cheap IQ tests then hits them with hidden $50 recurring subscriptions according to dozens of complaints. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is mentalabs.org legit or a scam?
Mentalabs.org lures users with cheap IQ tests then hits them with hidden $50 recurring subscriptions according to dozens of complaints.
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 legitimate testing platform with a clean professional design and no malware detections. Our research found over 50 complaints across independent review aggregator and Reddit detailing the exact same pattern: users pay $1-2 for results and are then billed $50 without clear consent. The domain is only about three months old with no verifiable business registration. While a few positive reviews mention easy navigation, the volume and consistency of scam reports outweigh the clean technical scan. This combination points strongly to a subscription-trap operation.
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 clean, professional, fully-rendered landing page for a cognitive testing service with 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 mentalabs.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain mentalabs.org registered February 24, 2026 (approx. 3 months old as of May 2026) via NameCheap with WHOIS privacy.
- Site offers online IQ, personality, and career tests; page title matches 'Discover Yourself: IQ, Personality & Career Tests | Mentalabs'.
- Trustpilot page for mentalabs.org shows 1,400+ reviews with overall 4.1/5 score but numerous recent complaints about hidden recurring subscriptions after low one-time payments ($1-2).
- Scamadviser rates it as 'probably legit' with average trust score but notes recent registration and low traffic.
- Multiple Reddit threads reference mentalabs.org in discussions of online IQ test subscription scams.
- Support page and contact email (support@mentalabs.org) listed on site; no independent business entity verification found.
- Trustpilotopen
"Dangerous Scam. They propose test results at 1.50$. When you agree they automatically subscribe you to a 50$ useless service which will charge you (without any further authorization) 24 hours later."
- Trustpilotopen
"Scam subscription trap. You do a test, then have to pay $1.50 USD to see the results... actually by paying the money you are automatically signed up to a subscription service that will bill you $50 USD 48 hours later if you don't cancel."
- Redditopen
"the site was mentalabs.org and they clearly listed at checkout that it would be $2 and nowhere did i see anything about having to pay $56"
- Redditopen
"yep found this to be true for mentalabs.org, too."
independent review aggregator contains multiple reviews warning of a subscription trap where users pay a small fee for test results and are then charged around $50 without clear authorization. Reddit threads in legaladvice and iqtest communities report the identical billing issue with mentalabs.org. A small number of positive independent review aggregator comments praise the test experience itself, but the volume of scam complaints is significantly higher.
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.
Domain & Encryption
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 subscription trap.
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 subscription trap.
Subscription trap / negative-option billing
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Do not interact with mentalabs.org
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Your card will be charged the full price after the trial
Most subscription traps bill the full amount ($49-$149) 14 days after sign-up, and every month thereafter. "Cancel anytime" often means you must call a foreign support line that's deliberately hard to reach.
- If you already signed up — call your bank today
Ask your bank to block future charges from the merchant and dispute any charges already made. Many banks will issue a new card number to prevent recurring billing. Save the confirmation email as evidence.
- OpenReport the billing scheme
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or your national consumer-protection body — subscription traps are specifically illegal in most jurisdictions when the auto-bill terms aren't clearly disclosed.
Trust History
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 mentalabs.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — mentalabs.org scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. mentalabs.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 60 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged mentalabs.org as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. mentalabs.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mentalabs.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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