Brand impersonation — not the real site
7 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (7 outright 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 pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com legit or a scam?
A malicious Google clone on a suspicious subdomain flagged by seven security engines for phishing and malware risks.
Score breakdown
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
Website Preview
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Intelligence
The site uses a complex subdomain to impersonate the official Google interface, including links to Gmail and AI tools. Our antivirus network shows a high consensus of danger, with seven major engines including Sophos and Fortinet flagging the URL for phishing and malware. The domain is not owned by Google and lacks any legitimate business registration or contact information. The presence of cross-domain redirects and the use of a privacy-protected registrar are common tactics used to hide the identity of the operators. Because it mimics a trusted login environment, the risk of credential theft is extremely high.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
Security engines and blocklists have identified this domain as a phishing host. There are no positive reviews or legitimate business associations found for this URL.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 7, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 months old today.
- Jul 6, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
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.
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.
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 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://pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com/
- 2301https://google.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.google.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with pl28176583.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.
Final Verdict
This page is a deceptive clone that impersonates Google's search and AI tools on a non-official domain. Multiple security engines, including Kaspersky and BitDefender, have flagged it as a phishing threat. Do not interact with the page or enter any account credentials.
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 pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 57 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com is 9 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.
- 7 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com as malicious or suspicious (7 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pl28176583.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 July 6, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pl28176583.effectivegatecpm.com 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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