No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is moonpay.com legit or a scam?
Established crypto on-ramp service with 16-year-old domain, valid US money transmitter licenses, and clean security scans.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a legitimate crypto buying and selling service with PayPal integration and a login form for account access. Its domain age of 5941 days and registration as MoonPay USA LLC with NMLS ID 2071245 plus licenses in all 50 states indicate a real operating business. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags while the hosting IP shows no abuse reports. Evidence shows dozens of customer complaints on review sites about fees, verification delays, and support response times, yet the company also holds a 4.1/5 independent review aggregator rating from over 111,000 reviews. No clone indicators or credential-harvest patterns beyond the expected login form were detected.
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for moonpay.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain moonpay.com has 5941 days age (~16 years).
- MoonPay USA LLC registered MSB with NMLS ID 2071245 and money transmitter licenses in all 50 US states plus NY BitLicense.
- Trustpilot page shows 4.1/5 from 111K+ reviews; multiple user complaints about fees, support, verification issues.
- Reddit threads include both scam accusations (e.g., stuck transactions, no refunds) and positive experiences.
- Company maintains official support site with scam prevention guides; warns users about impersonators.
- No evidence of typosquatting; site is the primary domain for the licensed crypto payments firm.
- BBB profile lists multiple customer complaints regarding unauthorized transactions and support disputes.
- Redditopen
"MoonPay is a scam . Buyers beware: if you buy BTC transferring it to their custodial wallet, there is no way to get it back. The website is broken."
- Trustpilotopen
"Awful and expensive service. They treat you like a criminal , agents are copyying the same answears over and over again. They're more expensive than the competition."
- Product Huntopen
"Scam company . I purchased cryptocurrency via Moonpay and I never ever receive them. The customer support is also almost non-existent."
- Redditopen
"I've never had any issues personally . The wallets I use have Transak built in too, and it's been smooth for years...no problems at all apart ..."
MoonPay USA LLC is a registered money service business (NMLS ID: 2071245); holds money transmitter licenses in all 50 US states including NY BitLicense; also registered in UK (FCA FRN 944746), Canada, Australia and others.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates PayPal on a non-official domain.
- Login form present on a page impersonating PayPal — credential-harvest pattern.
- Phone number listed (6251904).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://moonpay.com/
- 2301https://moonpay.com/
- 3200https://www.moonpay.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 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.
- Login form combined with brand impersonation (credential-harvest pattern).
- Page impersonates PayPal in a login flow.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
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.
- Login form combined with brand impersonation (credential-harvest pattern).
- Page impersonates PayPal in a login flow.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
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 moonpay.com and not a lookalike like m-oonpay.com.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 moonpay.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- moonpay.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. moonpay.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- moonpay.com is 16.3 years old, registered on 2/28/2010 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report moonpay.com as clean.
- No. moonpay.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- moonpay.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.
- 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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