Brand impersonation — not the real site
4 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.
Is pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com legit or a scam?
Fake Google homepage on effectivegatecpm.com subdomain flagged as phishing by Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos and Webroot with multiple scam reports.
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 page loads a near-perfect copy of Google's homepage including search bar, links, and footer text, yet it sits on a non-Google domain. Four antivirus engines explicitly label the URL malicious or phishing. The parent domain effectivegatecpm.com is only weeks old, shows no legitimate business records, and appears in several phishing databases. One review site gave a clean rating while four others and a Reddit thread labeled it high-risk. These combined signals override the clean browser blocklist result.
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 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
Screenshot shows the fully rendered, standard Google homepage with clean professional design and no scam indicators visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Google, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Google property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- effectivegatecpm.com registered October 7, 2025 through eNom, LLC; WHOIS shows client transfer prohibited, no public owner details.
- Flagged malicious/phishing by VirusTotal (11/91 vendors), Gridinsoft (1/100), PCrisk (Phishing And Fraud, 5/100), PhishDestroy (targets Google).
- Subdomains (e.g., pl27833824.effectivegatecpm.com, pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com) categorized as Phishing And Fraud; page titles mimic Google.
- Domain appears in social media posts (Facebook, TikTok) as links for 'full watch episode' or video content.
- Similar subdomains flagged by AdGuard (annoyance), URLhaus/Quad9 sinkholed in some reports; hosted on Servers.com IPs.
- One Reddit post in r/ScamChecker rates effectivegatecpm.com high risk (86/100).
- Conflicting scan: one URL checker reported no unsafe content; Scamadviser notes redirect to google.com.
- PhishDestroyopen
"PhishDestroy has identified effectivegatecpm[.]com as a generic phishing threat designed to deceive users and potentially steal sensitive information."
- Gridinsoftopen
"We flagged Effectivegatecpm.com as phishing. The page behavior matches a common credential-theft flow: impersonation first, urgency second, ..."
- PCriskopen
"Category: **Phishing And Fraud** ... 11/91 engines flagged ... trust score 5/100"
- Scamminderopen
"Is effectivegatecpm.com legit or a scam ? Trust Score: 10/100 (Phishing)."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that effectivegatecpm.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
Page title set to 'Google' or 'https://google.com/'; multiple scanners note impersonation of Google and phishing targeting Google.
PhishDestroy, Gridinsoft, PCrisk and Scamminder all list effectivegatecpm.com as a phishing site that impersonates Google. A single independent review aggregator entry called the domain safe, while a Reddit thread in r/ScamChecker rated it high risk. No business registration records were located.
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.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com/
- 2301https://google.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.google.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with pl27834100.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 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 pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 37 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 4 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. pl27834100.effectivegatecpm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pl27834100.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.
- 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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