Is qrco.de legit or a scam?
QR-code shortener flagged by six antivirus engines including CyRadar and Sucuri as malicious; used for phishing or credential harvesting.
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
Critical risk detected
5 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Six antivirus engines — Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, desenmascara.me, Gridinsoft, Sucuri SiteCheck, and DNS8 — flag qrco.de as malicious or phishing. The domain performs a cross-domain redirect, a common pattern in phishing chains where users are sent to a legitimate-looking page to harvest credentials or payment data. The hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation, suggesting the infrastructure itself is not compromised; instead, the domain operator is deliberately using the shortener service to obfuscate phishing links. SSL is valid and current, which lowers user suspicion but does not mitigate the phishing classification. The lack of WHOIS data and the redirect behaviour are consistent with a service designed to hide the final destination from casual inspection.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for qrco.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for qrco.de and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://qrco.de/
- 2403https://support.qr-code-generator.com/hc/en-us/articles/7664232533133-Why-are-there-different-short-URLs-domains-cross-domain
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with qrco.de
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
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags qrco.de as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — qrco.de scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. qrco.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged qrco.de as malicious or suspicious (5 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. qrco.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- qrco.de resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.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.
- Yes. qrco.de sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 14, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around qrco.de 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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