Is salathebox.com legit or a scam?
Official website for a long-standing Seville music venue with verified business registration and positive independent reviews.
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
Flagged on major browser safety blocklists as social engineering. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
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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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
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What our vision model saw
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MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over nine years, which is a strong indicator of a stable, legitimate business rather than a temporary scam site. Our research confirmed that the operator, SALA THE BOX SL, is a legally registered company in Spain with an active status. Independent travel and leisure sites contain multiple reviews from real customers praising the venue's atmosphere and service. While a few security engines flagged the site as phishing, these appear to be false positives given the extensive evidence of real-world operations and the lack of any consumer complaints. The site's contact information and social media profiles are consistent and have been active for years.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for salathebox.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain salathebox.com is directly linked to Sala The Box, a music venue, pub, and café-theater located at Av. de la Innovación s/n (Edificio Renta), 41020 Sevilla, Spain. Phone: +34 954 517 549.
- Business is registered in Spain as SALA THE BOX SL with CIF B70480124; appears in official company directories, BORME publications, and LinkedIn employee profiles.
- Tripadvisor lists it with a 3.7/5 rating from 18 reviews (mixed: praise for meals, value, and owner kindness; complaints about service, entry policies, and pricing). No scam mentions.
- Active social media presence on Instagram (@salatheboxsevilla, @salathebox), Facebook (TheBoxsala), with posts about concerts, reopening, events, and contact info matching the domain.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative Reddit/Trustpilot/ScamAdviser results found across multiple searches for "salathebox.com scam", "estafa", or reviews.
- Domain age of ~3502 days (~9.6 years) aligns with a long-established local business; no evidence of recent creation or suspicious activity.
- Page promotes "Un nuevo concepto de Ocio en Sevilla" (new leisure concept in Seville) with live music, drinks, and events; consistent with independent venue listings on Wanderlog, Yelp, and Carta.menu.
- Tripadvisoropen
"Excellent meal here. Great value. The owner is so kind and considerate where nothing is too much effort or trouble. Very good location for the Hotel Sevilla Congresos. Thoroughly recommended."
- Wanderlogopen
"Sala The Box offers occasional live music, creating a unique atmosphere compared to other venues. Guests enjoy playing dart machines and table football while..."
SALA THE BOX SL (CIF B70480124), registered as a limited company (Sociedad Limitada) operating a café-theater/concert venue in Seville. Linked to employees on LinkedIn and official BORME mentions.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING.
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 (info@salathebox.com).
- Phone number listed (954 51 75 49).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://salathebox.com/
- 2200https://www.salathebox.com/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 salathebox.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.
Referenced Domains
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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 salathebox.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — salathebox.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. salathebox.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 232 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- salathebox.com is 9.6 years old, registered on 11/24/2016 through Cronon GmbH. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged salathebox.com as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged salathebox.com with the following threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- salathebox.com resolves to an IP operated by Strato GmbH in DE (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 27, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around salathebox.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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