Is pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com legit or a scam?
Fake Google phishing site using Google branding and resources on a spoofed subdomain; flagged malicious by 13 antivirus engines.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
13 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
MT Intelligence
The domain pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com masquerades as Google by displaying 'Google' as the page title and loading authentic Google resources (gstatic.com, accounts.google.com, mail.google.com, store.google.com, and others). This is a classic phishing pattern: the attacker hosts a fake page on an unrelated domain while pulling in legitimate Google assets to appear credible. Thirteen of our antivirus partners—including BitDefender, CyRadar, ADMINUSLabs, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, and Fortinet—flag the page as phishing or malware. The domain itself is 253 days old, suggesting it has been used for sustained phishing activity. The page contains no legitimate contact information, no business registration, and no authentic Google branding or ownership claims. The cross-domain redirect chain and absence of any real business purpose confirm this is a credential-harvesting or malware-distribution vector.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent review aggregator data available for this domain.
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.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com/
- 2301https://google.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.google.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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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 flags pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com is 8 months old, registered on 10/7/2025 through eNom, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com as malicious or suspicious (13 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com resolves to an IP operated by Servers.com, 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 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pl27830620.effectivegatecpm.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.