Is metro.co.uk legit or a scam?
The official domain for Metro UK, a long-established and legitimate national news outlet with a clean security profile.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 31 years and is the verified home of the Metro newspaper. Our analysis shows a perfect security record with zero flags from over 90 antivirus engines. The site is hosted on high-reputation infrastructure and maintains a massive global traffic rank. While some automated scanners might flag 'celebrity' content as a risk, this is simply due to the site's nature as a showbiz and news publisher. There is no evidence of phishing, malware, or fraudulent intent.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for metro.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- metro.co.uk is the official website of Metro, a major British freesheet tabloid newspaper and online news platform published by DMG Media (part of DMGT plc / Associated Newspapers Limited, company number 84121).
- The site has been active for over 31 years (domain age 11325 days ≈ 31 years) and is a well-known UK news source covering news, sport, showbiz, and celebrities.
- Legally operated from Northcliffe House, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY, UK; part of the same group as the Daily Mail.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or phishing allegations were found specifically targeting the legitimate metro.co.uk domain in web searches.
- The site itself regularly publishes articles warning readers about scams, phishing, and fraud (e.g., articles on spotting phishing emails and Amazon scam warnings).
- Trustpilot reviews for "metro.co.uk" (low volume, mixed) appear to be confused with Metro Bank reviews; no substantial negative feedback about the news site was identified.
- The "Celebrity Endorsement" and "Amazon (impersonation / clone attempt)" flags in the scanned page are typical of scam sites that impersonate or reference legitimate news brands like Metro to lend credibility to fake stories.
Operated by Metro, a division of Associated Newspapers Limited (company no. 84121, registered in England, part of DMGT plc / dmg media). Registered office: Northcliffe House, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY.
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.
- Page impersonates Amazon on a non-official domain.
- Scam family match: Celebrity Endorsement.
- Phone number listed (3669457).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://metro.co.uk/
- 2200https://metro.co.uk/
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 metro.co.uk and not a lookalike like m-etro.co.uk.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.
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on metro.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- metro.co.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. metro.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 39 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- metro.co.uk is 31.0 years old, registered on 6/17/1995 through Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude. 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 metro.co.uk as clean.
- No. metro.co.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- metro.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, 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.
- Yes. metro.co.uk sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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