No threats detected
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Is pluto.tv legit or a scam?
Official Pluto TV streaming site with a 13-year-old domain owned by Paramount Global and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the well-known Pluto TV free streaming platform and the page content matches that description exactly. The domain is over 13 years old, registered through MarkMonitor with no privacy protection, and business records confirm ownership by Paramount Global's direct-to-consumer division. Security scans show valid SSL, a clean IP with zero abuse reports, and no blocklist hits. Evidence from our research matches the official service, including app store listings and Wikipedia details, with no clone or impersonation flags. The few complaints found relate to normal service issues like ads or buffering rather than fraud.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pluto.tv, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Pluto TV is a legitimate free ad-supported streaming service (FAST) with 100s of live channels and 1000s of on-demand titles; owned by Paramount Global.
- - Domain pluto.tv registered February 23, 2013 (over 13 years old); official site matches page title/description provided.
- - Available on Google Play, Apple App Store, Roku, Microsoft Store with developer listed as Pluto Inc. or Pluto.tv; millions of ratings (e.g., 4.8/5 on Apple with 1.6M ratings).
- - Wikipedia confirms ownership, 80 million monthly active users (as of 2023), launched 2014; headquartered in Los Angeles/West Hollywood, CA.
- - Trustpilot rating 1.7/5 from ~1,136 reviews; Sitejabber 1.6/5 from 435 reviews, primarily citing buffering, ads, and app issues.
- - Past data breach reported in 2020 involving 3.2M accounts attributed to ShinyHunters (not current scam activity on domain).
- - No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of other brands; .tv TLD aligns with TV streaming focus.
- Redditopen
"It doesn't sound like you had any real Pluto app or were on their real website. There literally isn't anything to pay money for . It's a free, ad-supported ..."
- Redditopen
"I find it is great, if you want to watch older movies from the 80s and 90s, better then something like Netflix or Hulu."
Owned and operated by Paramount Skydance Direct-to-Consumer division of Paramount Global; domain registered February 23, 2013 via MarkMonitor
Our research found the domain belongs to the legitimate Pluto TV service owned by Paramount Global. Reddit discussions include one post noting a scam attempt was unrelated to the real site and another praising the service for older movies. Review sites show mixed scores mainly due to ads and buffering rather than fraud. Business records confirm active US registration since 2013.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pluto.tv/
- 2200https://pluto.tv/
Server Reputation
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 pluto.tv and not a lookalike like p-luto.tv.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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 found no threat indicators on pluto.tv. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- pluto.tv 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. pluto.tv presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 122 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pluto.tv is 13.3 years old, registered on 2/23/2013 through MarkMonitor, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. pluto.tv is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pluto.tv resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (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.
- 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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