Warning signs detected
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (2 outright malicious). Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is ristorante-cosi.de legit or a scam?
Be careful — we couldn't verify this site.
Official site for a real Italian restaurant in Bonn with verified address, phone, and strong customer reviews across review platforms.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The page presents itself as a standard restaurant website with menu, gallery, and reservation options. Two antivirus engines flagged the page as malware while the remaining 90 returned clean results. The hosting IP carries zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Our research located the business registration in Germany listing Lello Cascone as managing director along with a VAT ID. Three independent restaurant review sites show ratings between 4.4 and 4.9 stars with hundreds of reviews. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appeared in the evidence package.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ristorante-cosi.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain is the official website for Ristorante Cosi, a physical Italian restaurant located at Prinz-Albert-Str. 42, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
- The restaurant has high ratings across multiple platforms: 4.7/5 on Google (264 reviews), 4.4/5 on Tripadvisor, and 4.9/5 on Facebook.
- The website provides legitimate contact information including a local phone number (0228/85034689) and a professional imprint (Impressum) identifying Lello Cascone as the responsible party.
- Third-party restaurant guides like Restaurant Guru and Wanderlog confirm the business's existence and positive reputation for Italian cuisine.
- No reports of scams, phishing, or fraudulent activity were found associated with this domain.
- Restaurant Guruopen
"Italian dishes here are quite nice and the menu is well-organized. Check out good octopus, pasta and pizza Ristorante Cosi offers. This spot scored 4.7 in the Google rating system."
- Wanderlogopen
"Our absolute favorite restaurant in Bonn. A completely different dining experience compared to most other places in Bonn - most of the menu changes daily."
- Coolibriopen
"Ristorante Cosi reaches a Restaurant Score of 8.4 and a customer satisfaction of 86.3%. Especially positive are the food (8.8), service (8.5) and atmosphere (8.5)."
Registered in Bonn. Managing Director: Lello Cascone. VAT ID: 206/208513541.
Our research located the business on Restaurant Guru, Wanderlog, and Coolibri with ratings between 4.7 and 8.4. Reviewers praise the Italian dishes, daily menu changes, and service quality. Business registration records confirm the restaurant operates legally in Bonn under Lello Cascone. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appeared in any searched sources.
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (cosi@ristorante-cosi.de).
- Phone number listed (85034689).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat ristorante-cosi.de as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
- OpenShare your experience
If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.
Final Verdict
Ristorante Cosi is the legitimate website for an Italian restaurant in Bonn, Germany. The domain shows a physical address, local phone number, active business registration, and positive reviews on multiple restaurant platforms. No scam reports or malicious indicators were found.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- ristorante-cosi.de shows strong warning signs of being a scam site — avoid interacting with it. 3 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — ristorante-cosi.de scores 46/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on ristorante-cosi.de, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on ristorante-cosi.de and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report ristorante-cosi.de through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 3 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged ristorante-cosi.de, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — ristorante-cosi.de is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — ristorante-cosi.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 242 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- ristorante-cosi.de resolves to an IP operated by STRATO AG in DE (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about ristorante-cosi.de has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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