Critical risk detected
Domain is only 65 days old. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is osint-academy.org legit or a scam?
New 65-day-old OSINT course site with urgency timers, crypto payments, and zero contact info despite clean scans.
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 an OSINT academy selling three tiers of online courses priced from €151 to €227 with lifetime access and crypto options. The strongest red flag is the domain registered only 65 days ago combined with a countdown timer creating purchase pressure and complete absence of email, phone, or address. One antivirus engine flagged it while browser lists stayed clean and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Our visual scan found a professional dark-themed landing page with no obvious phishing elements, yet the lack of business registration or independent reviews leaves the operation unverified. The combination of new domain, Telegram funneling, and urgency tactics outweighs the clean visual appearance.
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
Clean, professional dark-themed landing page for an OSINT training academy with no visible scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for osint-academy.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain osint-academy.org registered approximately 65 days ago
- Site title 'OSINT | Academy №1' with Russian-language description of OSINT online courses on digital analytics, Telegram/Discord/TikTok analysis
- Mentioned in Telegram channels including @osint_matrix ('Сайт академии: https://osint-academy.org/') and @sollelliot as partner OSINT Academy
- Referenced on YouTube channel XpatchShadow in context of OSINT and digital forensics
- No scam reports, user reviews, or complaints found across web searches including Reddit
- No business registration records located
- No evidence of typosquatting famous brands; naming similar but distinct from osintacademy.com (English/US-based OSINT training)
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.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://osint-academy.org/
- 2200https://osint-academy.org/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with osint-academy.org
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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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 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 osint-academy.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — osint-academy.org scored 24/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. osint-academy.org 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.
- osint-academy.org is 2 months old, registered on 3/27/2026 through NameCheap, 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 osint-academy.org as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. osint-academy.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- osint-academy.org 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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