Is nelomanga.net legit or a scam?
Clone of MangaNelo offering free manga with clean malware scans but user complaints about aggressive ads and suspicious redirects.
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
Possible brand impersonation
Clone of MangaNelo offering free manga with clean malware scans but user complaints about aggressive ads and suspicious redirects. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
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MT Intelligence
NeloManga operates as a rebranded clone of the original MangaNelo site, which faced legal pressures and domain changes. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists show no malicious flags, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. However, the domain uses a paid privacy service to hide the owner's identity, and independent trust aggregators show conflicting signals — one rates it 91/100 as safe, another gives it only 25/100. Reddit users in piracy communities consistently report heavy popup ads, auto-redirects to sketchy sites, and instability after the rebranding. The site's own warning that it 'may not appear in Google search results' and its recommendation to bookmark it suggests awareness of potential takedown risk. The combination of clone-site status, hidden ownership, user complaints about malicious redirects, and conflicting trust scores creates moderate concern despite clean malware detection.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nelomanga.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 443 days ago (around March 2024); WHOIS owner identity hidden via privacy service in Iceland
- Functions as a free manga/manhwa/manhua reading site with high traffic (ranked top 4000 globally and #42 in Animation & Comics per SimilarWeb)
- Multiple Reddit users in r/mangapiracy report heavy popup ads, redirects to sketchy sites, and site instability after rebranding from MangaNelo
- Scamadviser rates it 91/100 and 'Very Likely Safe / not a scam'; Gridinsoft gives 71/100 with 'no major malware/phishing detections' but notes insufficient evidence for full safety
- ScamDoc shows poor trust score of 25%; page itself warns users it may not appear in search results due to 'search engine updates' and urges bookmarking
- No evidence of formal business registration or company details found; classified as Anime & Manga site owned by 'MangaNelo'
- Appears to be one of several mirror/clone domains in the Manganelo ecosystem following legal pressures on the original
- Reddit (r/mangapiracy)open
"Ever since MangaNelo became NeloManga Manga I've had so many more pop up ads and auto redirects to sketchy sites."
- Reddit (r/mangapiracy)open
"Is anybody else having a major issue with nelomanga spamming adds, and if this is permanent do you know a good alternative"
- ScamDocopen
"Nelomanga.net reviews | Poor Trust Score: 25%"
Site title and description directly copy/rebrand from Manganelo (popular manga aggregator that faced legal issues and domain changes); Reddit users refer to it as 'manganelo (nelomanga)' or successor after original faced lawsuits
Reddit users in piracy communities report that NeloManga (formerly MangaNelo) has heavy popup ads and auto-redirects to suspicious sites, with increased instability after the rebranding. Independent trust aggregators show conflicting assessments: one rates it 91/100 as 'very likely safe', while another gives it 25/100 with a 'poor trust score'. The site itself warns users that search engine updates may prevent it from appearing in Google results and recommends bookmarking — a pattern often seen in sites aware of potential legal or regulatory action. No formal business registration or company details are publicly available; the domain owner is hidden behind a paid privacy service.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nelomanga.net/
- 2301https://nelomanga.net/
- 3200https://www.nelomanga.net/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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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 brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat nelomanga.net as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
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 nelomanga.net 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.
- nelomanga.net currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. nelomanga.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nelomanga.net is 1.2 years old, registered on 3/23/2025 through NameCheap, 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 nelomanga.net as clean.
- No. nelomanga.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nelomanga.net 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around nelomanga.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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