No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is mercadolibre.com legit or a scam?
Official Mercado Libre marketplace with clean security scan, 27-year-old domain, and confirmed public company status.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the primary domain for Mercado Libre, a well-known e-commerce platform operating across Latin America. Strong legitimacy signals include a domain registered nearly 27 years ago, valid SSL, zero malware detections, and clean IP reputation. Business records confirm it is a Nasdaq-listed public company with headquarters in Uruguay. While independent review aggregator and Reddit show user complaints about third-party sellers and customer service, these do not indicate the site itself is fraudulent. No clone indicators or scam-family matches were found.
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 mercadolibre.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain mercadolibre.com is the primary site for Mercado Libre, a major e-commerce marketplace operating across Latin America.
- Publicly traded company (Nasdaq: MELI) with reported revenue of US$42.7 billion (2025) and 123,670 employees.
- Trustpilot reviews for www.mercadolibre.com show 1.5/5 rating from 276 reviews, with frequent mentions of issues with third-party sellers and customer service.
- Scamadviser rates mercadolibre.com as 'very likely safe' and 'legit and reliable', noting it is a very old website.
- Wikipedia confirms MercadoLibre, Inc. as the operator, with 174.2 million users as of 2016.
- Multiple Reddit threads discuss scams by individual sellers on the platform, but advise staying within the platform for resolutions.
- App Store rating for Mercado Libre app is 4.8/5 from 353K ratings.
- Trustpilotopen
"Scammers selling counterfeit products and zero customer service"
- Redditopen
"MercadoLibre is getting filled with scams : Today, while browsing Mercado Libre, I've noticed that scams, let's say, are on the rise . They offer stuff at low prices, but surprise! They can ..."
- Trustpilotopen
"Terrible, they don’t take responsibility if there’s a scam vendor. They don’t even check if is a legit vendor who announce selling a product on their website."
Public company (Nasdaq: MELI), Argentine origin, headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, incorporated in Delaware
Our research found three scam-related mentions on independent review aggregator and Reddit, mostly describing problems with individual sellers offering counterfeit goods or poor service. Two positive reviews highlight the app's reliability and fast delivery. Business records confirm MercadoLibre, Inc. is a publicly traded company with active registration in Argentina, Uruguay, and Delaware.
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
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://mercadolibre.com/
- 2200https://mercadolibre.com/
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 mercadolibre.com and not a lookalike like m-ercadolibre.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 mercadolibre.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- mercadolibre.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. mercadolibre.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 159 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mercadolibre.com is 27.1 years old, registered on 5/8/1999 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 mercadolibre.com as clean.
- No. mercadolibre.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mercadolibre.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies 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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