Warning signs detected
Legitimate audio-streaming platform with 18-year history, but low trust ratings and complaints about unexpected subscription charges and unresponsive support. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is mixcloud.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate audio-streaming platform with 18-year history, but low trust ratings and complaints about unexpected subscription charges and unresponsive support.
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
Mixcloud.com is the official domain of Mixcloud Limited, a UK-registered company incorporated in 2008 with active status — the domain is 6,632 days old and ranks in the global top-100k. Our antivirus network shows only one outlier detection (Gridinsoft) against 91 clean engines, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. However, independent review aggregators report a 2.2/5 score on independent review aggregator from 189 reviews, with explicit complaints about unexpected charges for both artist subscriptions and monthly premium, combined with poor support response. One reviewer labelled the billing practice a "scam alert". The platform suffered a major 2019 data breach exposing over 20 million user accounts. App-store ratings remain strong (4.8/5 on Google Play from ~193k reviews), and the company maintains active help articles warning users about phishing impersonation and fake accounts — suggesting the platform itself is not a phishing or malware vector. The risk profile is not a fake-shop or credential-harvest pattern, but rather a legitimate service with documented billing and support friction.
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 mixcloud.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Mixcloud.com is the legitimate website of Mixcloud Limited, a UK-registered private limited company (No. 06710137) incorporated in 2008 with active status.
- The platform has operated for over 18 years (domain age 6632 days) as an audio streaming service for DJ mixes, radio shows and podcasts.
- Trustpilot shows a low 2.2/5 score from 189 reviews, with specific complaints about unexpected subscription charges, poor support response, and one review explicitly labelled "Scam alert".
- Mixcloud maintains official help articles warning users about suspicious/phishing messages claiming to be from the company and about fake plays or bot accounts on the platform.
- A major data breach in 2019 exposed data (emails, IPs, hashed passwords) of over 20-22 million user accounts, which was offered for sale on the dark web.
- App stores report high user ratings (Google Play 4.8/5 from ~193k reviews), while Reddit discussions focus on platform policy changes, shadowbanning claims, and competition with SoundCloud/YouTube rather than outright fraud.
- No widespread evidence of the site itself being a phishing, malware, or scam domain; complaints center on billing/support and historical breach.
- Trustpilotopen
"Scam alert. I subscribed to an artist, and they charged me for the artist and monthly premium. The support refuses to help. Do not pay for anything."
- Trustpilotopen
"We wanted to renew the one-year subscription, my credit card was blocked by the bank... Regarding the risk of money laundering/terrorism! ... NO ONE EVER GAVE A CORRECT answer."
- Google Playopen
"Mixcloud is a streaming platform for music communities to share the sounds they love. ... 4.8 stars from 193K reviews"
- worthepenny.comopen
"Mixcloud has an overall rating of 3.8 based on 272 reviews. Customer feedback on Mixcloud is mixed: Mixcloud reviewers highlight positive aspects like wide..."
Mixcloud Limited, Company Number 06710137, incorporated 29 Sep 2008, registered address Unit 2255, 275 New North Road, London N1 7AA
Mixcloud.com is confirmed as the official domain of Mixcloud Limited, a UK-registered private limited company (Company Number 06710137) incorporated 29 September 2008 with active status. The platform has operated for over 18 years as an audio-streaming service for DJ mixes, radio shows, and podcasts. independent review aggregator reports a 2.2/5 score from 189 reviews, with specific complaints about unexpected charges for artist subscriptions combined with monthly premium fees, and poor customer support response. One reviewer explicitly labelled the billing practice a "scam alert". Google Play reports 4.8/5 stars from approximately 193,000 reviews, and consumer-review aggregators report a 3.8/5 rating from 272 reviews. A major 2019 data breach exposed emails, IP addresses, and hashed passwords of over 20 million user accounts, which were offered for sale on the dark web. The platform maintains official help articles warning users about phishing impersonation and fake accounts. No widespread evidence suggests the site itself is a phishing, malware, or credential-harvest domain; complaints centre on billing practices, support responsiveness, and the historical breach.
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
- 1302http://mixcloud.com/
- 2200https://www.mixcloud.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
1 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.
Suspicious free-trial offer
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Treat mixcloud.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
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 marked mixcloud.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- mixcloud.com currently scores 47/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. mixcloud.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mixcloud.com is 18.2 years old, registered on 4/11/2008 through Cloudflare, Inc.. 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 mixcloud.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. mixcloud.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mixcloud.com 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.
- Yes. mixcloud.com 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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