Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of seized missav.com adult streaming site that hosts pirated JAV content after the original domain was taken down in 2025. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is missav.ai legit or a scam?
Clone of seized missav.com adult streaming site that hosts pirated JAV content after the original domain was taken down in 2025.
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 fully functional adult video platform with standard navigation and thumbnails. The strongest signal is its confirmed status as a direct clone of missav.com, which was seized by US authorities in January 2025 for copyright infringement. Supporting signals include a 703-day-old domain, valid SSL, zero abuse reports on the hosting IP, and only a single low-severity malware flag. Our web research found no scam complaints and one positive assessment calling it likely legitimate, yet the lack of formal business registration and explicit piracy operation lowers overall trust. The combination of clone behavior and illegal content distribution makes the site suspicious despite clean technical scans.
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 adult video streaming site with standard navigation, search, and thumbnail layout. No scam indicators or suspicious patterns are visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for missav.ai, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered June 27 2024 via GoDaddy, registrant contact in Hong Kong (King Xross)
- Successor to missav.com after US court seizure Jan 2025 following $4.5M default judgment for copyright infringement (Will Co. Ltd v. operators)
- Scamadviser trust assessment: very likely safe, Tranco rank ~500, valid SSL
- Hosts free streaming of pirated Japanese adult videos (JAV); high traffic site with user scripts and download tools discussed on GitHub/Reddit
- No formal business registration details found; WHOIS privacy-protected with HK address
- Multiple Reddit threads reference missav.ai as active MissAV mirror post-takedown
- Associated operator names from prior case: Ka Yeung Lee and Hong Kong company Youhaha Marketing
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, missav.ai is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
WHOIS lists owner King Xross, IFC 852 Mongkok Kowloon HK; linked in reports to Ka Yeung Lee and Youhaha Marketing & Promotion Limited (HK)
Current operational domain after missav.com seizure in Jan 2025; GitHub and Reddit note migration to missav.ai and missav.ws
Our research located no scam reports or consumer complaints. One review source concluded the site is very likely not a scam. The domain is documented as the active successor to missav.com after its January 2025 seizure for copyright infringement, with multiple online discussions confirming the migration to missav.ai for continued free streaming of pirated JAV content.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://missav.ai/
- 2403https://missav.ai/
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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with missav.ai
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 flags missav.ai as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — missav.ai scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. missav.ai presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 37 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- missav.ai is 1.9 years old, registered on 6/26/2024 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged missav.ai as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. missav.ai is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- missav.ai 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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