Critical risk detected
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is publixbogotracker.com legit or a scam?
New 62-day-old fan-made Publix BOGO tracker flagged as phishing by two engines despite clean visuals and no 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 site presents itself as a simple hobby tool for tracking Publix weekly deals with a personal watchlist and includes a clear disclaimer of no affiliation with Publix. Two engines (Gridinsoft and Mimecast) flagged it as phishing while the rest of our antivirus network stayed clean. The domain is only 62 days old with privacy protection disabled, which raises typical caution flags for new sites. Our visual analysis shows a fully rendered, clean page with no scam indicators or clone behavior. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions turned up in our research, and the site is openly credited to a Reddit user as a personal project. The combination of youth and AV detections outweighs the lack of complaints for now.
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, fully rendered site with no scam indicators. Appears to be a legitimate fan-made Publix BOGO tracker.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for publixbogotracker.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain publixbogotracker.com registered approximately 62 days ago.
- Site title and description match 'Publix BOGO Tracker' for tracking Publix weekly BOGO deals with personal watchlist.
- Site footer states: 'Not affiliated with Publix Super Markets, Inc.'
- Developed as hobby project by Reddit user u/frogger79 (Jason Tur), listed on personal portfolio jason-tur.com using Next.js/Supabase/Vercel.
- Security scanners report low trust: pcrisk.com 5/100 (11/92 engines flagged); Gridinsoft flags as phishing.
- No user-generated scam reports, complaints, or independent reviews found on Reddit, forums, or review sites.
- No evidence of typosquatting or impersonation of official Publix domain (publix.com).
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://publixbogotracker.com/
- 2200https://publixbogotracker.com/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with publixbogotracker.com
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
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 publixbogotracker.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — publixbogotracker.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. publixbogotracker.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 37 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- publixbogotracker.com is 2 months old, registered on 3/30/2026 through Porkbun LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged publixbogotracker.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. publixbogotracker.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- publixbogotracker.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia 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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