Is sketchfab.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 3D content platform (Epic Games subsidiary) with strong infrastructure; phishing scams target users via fake support comments, not the site itself.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Sketchfab.com is an established, well-operated platform founded over 14 years ago and acquired by Epic Games in 2021. Our antivirus network, browser blocklists, and sandbox all confirm the site is clean — zero malicious detections across 91 engines. The domain is registered to Sketchfab, Inc., a Delaware corporation with active business registration and offices in New York and Paris. SSL is valid, hosting reputation is clean, and the page loads legitimate 3D content with proper business infrastructure. The evidence package shows three scam reports, but all describe phishing attacks where criminals impersonate Sketchfab support in model comments, falsely claiming account deletion or requesting banking details — a social-engineering threat to users, not a compromise of the platform itself. Sketchfab actively publishes warnings about these scams and does not request banking information via comments. Independent review sites praise the platform's usability, though an independent review aggregator shows mixed sentiment post-acquisition. The platform complies with PCI, SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 standards.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sketchfab.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age: 5204 days (approximately 14 years); established legitimate 3D content sharing platform with over 1 million creators.
- Acquired by Epic Games in July 2021; operates as Sketchfab, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in New York with Paris offices.
- Multiple reports (2025-2026) of phishing scams impersonating Sketchfab support via comments on models, falsely claiming account deletion or requiring credit card/bank verification.
- Users and the platform itself publish warning models about these common comment-based phishing attempts; Sketchfab does not request banking details via comments.
- Security profile lists compliance with PCI, SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001; Reddit users generally consider model downloads safe from malware.
- Trustpilot shows low score (1.5/5 from 32 reviews); mixed professional reviews on G2/Capterra praise usability but some post-acquisition complaints exist about platform changes.
- Company actively moderates for fraud, spam, and IP issues per terms; hosts DMCA agent and transparency reports.
- Reddit r/Scamsopen
"Fake Sketchfab “verification” scam — tries to steal your credit card info. This is 100% phishing. Sketchfab never asks for banking verification, and they definitely don't send support messages through comments."
- Unreal Engine Forumsopen
"I was hit by a scam this afternoon and lost 300 Euros. The fellow pretends to be FAB (3 weeks ago) or Sketchfab (today) and says that Sketchfab needs access to my bank account..."
- Sketchfab (user model)open
"This is almost certainly a SCAM / PHISHING message. Do NOT click the link. Do NOT enter any card information. - SCAMMER TRIES TO SCAM"
- G2open
"Users consistently praise the platform for its ease of use and high-quality visualization of 3D models."
- Capterraopen
"Easy to use, easy to edit, easy to share, great quality results. SketchFab makes it easy to upload, edit and share/embed 3D online."
- Reddit r/blenderopen
"It's safe. However don't expect what you download to look like the renders on sketchup."
Sketchfab, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with headquarters at 440 9th Ave, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10001. Acquired by Epic Games in 2021; also has offices in Paris, France.
Our research found three phishing scams where criminals impersonate Sketchfab support via model comments, falsely claiming account deletion or requesting banking details. Reddit, Unreal Engine Forums, and Sketchfab's own user-generated content document these attacks. Sketchfab does not request banking information via comments and actively warns users. Independent review sites (G2, Capterra) praise the platform's usability and ease of use. Reddit users confirm model downloads are safe from malware. an independent review aggregator shows a lower score (1.5/5 from 32 reviews), with some complaints about post-acquisition platform changes, but no security or legitimacy concerns. Business registration confirms Sketchfab, Inc. is a Delaware corporation acquired by Epic Games in 2021, headquartered in New York with Paris offices.
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.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sketchfab.com/
- 2200https://sketchfab.com/
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 sketchfab.com and not a lookalike like s-ketchfab.com.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 found no threat indicators on sketchfab.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sketchfab.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sketchfab.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 218 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sketchfab.com is 14.3 years old, registered on 3/12/2012 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report sketchfab.com as clean.
- No. sketchfab.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sketchfab.com 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. sketchfab.com 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.
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