No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is oblec.org.uk legit or a scam?
A legitimate UK-based environmental campaign site with a 4-year history, clean security scans, and verified local community involvement.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate local environmental campaign page with professional design and no visual indicators of scam or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional branding for 'Old Basing & Lychpit Environment Campaign' (OBLEC)
Functional navigation menu with relevant environmental campaign categories
High-quality, relevant hero image of a countryside landscape
No fake trust badges, urgency tactics, or suspicious pop-ups present
Layout is clean, professional, and consistent with a non-profit organization
Intelligence
The domain has been active for over four years, which is a strong indicator of stability compared to the short-lived domains used by scammers. Our antivirus network shows a perfect 0/92 clean score, and the hosting IP has no history of abuse. While the site uses a free Outlook email address, this is common for small, volunteer-run community groups. Visual analysis confirms professional branding consistent with its stated mission of opposing local housing developments. Furthermore, our research found multiple mentions of this organization in local newspapers and official council documents. The lack of any scam reports across independent review aggregators further solidifies its status as a genuine community initiative.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for oblec.org.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain oblec.org.uk registered 2022-04-11, age 4.2 years.
- Site describes OBLEC as 'Old Basing and Lychpit Environment Campaign', a volunteer-run local group opposing housing developments in the Loddon Valley parish (Hampshire, UK).
- Active Facebook page: 'Old Basing and Lychpit Environment Campaign' with ~34 likes; primary function stated as resisting large housing on greenfield sites.
- Multiple local news mentions in Basingstoke Gazette (2023–2025) covering public meetings hosted by OBLEC on Local Plan issues.
- Submitted formal responses to Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council consultations (e.g., Regulation 18 Local Plan submission PDF).
- Supported/endorsed by local groups including Lychpit Community Residents Association and referenced positively in Parish Council newsletters.
- No scam reports, complaints, Trustpilot/ScamAdviser/ScamDoc listings, or negative reviews found across web searches including Reddit.
Domain Timeline
- Apr 11, 2022Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4.2 years old today.
- Jul 7, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
oblec.org.uk has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (outlook.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://oblec.org.uk/
- 2200https://oblec.org.uk/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 oblec.org.uk and not a lookalike like o-blec.org.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Final Verdict
This is a legitimate local environmental campaign website for the Old Basing and Lychpit area in Hampshire, UK. It is an established community resource with a clean security record and documented local news coverage. You can safely browse this site and interact with its campaign materials.
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 oblec.org.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- oblec.org.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. oblec.org.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by ZeroSSL GmbH · ZeroSSL RSA DV SSL CA 2, expiring in 90 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- oblec.org.uk is 4.2 years old, registered on 4/11/2022 through 123-Reg Limited t/a 123-reg. 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 oblec.org.uk as clean.
- No. oblec.org.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- oblec.org.uk resolves to an IP operated by ANS ACADEMY LIMITED in GB (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 July 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around oblec.org.uk 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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