Security Review

Is skyscannet.net legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 24/100

Typosquat clone of skyscanner.net designed to deceive users searching for the legitimate travel booking site.

skyscannet.netScanned 2d ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 40
Category tags
clone sitetyposquat#Clone Site78% MT confidence
Warning signals (1)

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.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
1/95
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Suspicious
High likelihood · 78% confidence
DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

Typosquat clone of skyscanner.net designed to deceive users searching for the legitimate travel booking site. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.

Website Preview

Screenshot of skyscannet.net
LIVE RENDER
skyscannet.net

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
High scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust40/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation
0%
Confidence
The domain skyscannet.net is a near-identical misspelling of skyscanner.net, a legitimate travel-booking platform established in 2002. Our fingerprint analysis confirms this is a clone and typosquat of the real site. The page displays only "Loading..." with no functional content, no business registration, no contact details, and no legitimate operational signals. Skyscanner actively publishes warnings about impersonation sites using its name and branding. While independent review aggregators rate the domain as safe and one antivirus engine (Fortinet) flags it as malware, the combination of typosquat naming, clone-site structure, and absence of any legitimate business presence strongly suggests this is a credential-harvesting or redirect scheme targeting users who mistype the real domain.
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Page Content

The page displays only "Loading..." with no functional content, no business information, no contact email, phone, or address. No login form, countdown timer, or push-notification spam detected. The minimal page structure is consistent with a redirect or credential-capture intermediary.

Infrastructure

Hosted on IP 37.48.72.213 with clean abuse reputation (0/100 score, no abuse reports). SSL certificate is valid (Let's Encrypt, 73 days to expiry). WHOIS data is privacy-protected via registrar Dynadot, preventing public visibility of registration date and registrant details.

Domain History

skyscannet.net is a typosquat — a one-character misspelling of skyscanner.net (legitimate domain registered 2002). Our fingerprint analysis confirms clone-site and typosquat signals. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings, indicating minimal legitimate traffic or search visibility.

Web Reputation

One antivirus engine (Fortinet) flags the domain as malware. Independent review aggregators rate it as safe, but these ratings may reflect the absence of active malicious payloads rather than legitimacy. Skyscanner publishes active warnings about impersonation sites. No scam reports, complaints, or negative user reviews found in web searches.

Risk Factors
7
  • Typosquat domain — one-character misspelling of legitimate skyscanner.net, designed to catch mistyped searches.
  • Clone-site fingerprint confirmed by our network analysis; page structure mimics redirect or credential-capture pattern.
  • Page displays only "Loading..." with no functional content, business registration, or contact information.
  • Skyscanner actively warns about impersonation scams using its brand name and domain variations.
  • WHOIS privacy redaction prevents verification of registrant identity or registration date.
  • Not indexed in global traffic rankings; no legitimate user base or search visibility.
  • Fortinet antivirus engine flags the domain as malware.
Positive Signals
4
  • SSL certificate is valid and current (Let's Encrypt issuer).
  • Hosting IP has clean abuse reputation with zero reported incidents.
  • Browser blocklists do not flag the domain.
  • Independent review aggregators report no malware, phishing, or harmful applications detected.
AI Recommendation
Do not enter any personal, payment, or login information on this site. If you intended to book travel, visit the legitimate skyscanner.net directly by typing the correct domain or searching for Skyscanner in your browser. Report this domain to Skyscanner's abuse team.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for skyscannet.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Clones skyscanner.net
The page impersonates a well-known brand's site.
Typosquat check
Typosquat of skyscanner.net
Deliberate misspelling of a real brand's domain.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • skyscannet.net appears in very few search results with no user reviews, forum discussions, or news coverage
  • Scamadviser rates it as "legit and safe for consumers to access"
  • Webrate.org reports no malware, phishing, or harmful applications detected
  • Domain uses privacy-protected WHOIS via registrar Dynadot; exact registration date not publicly detailed in results
  • Strong visual and naming similarity to legitimate travel site skyscanner.net (official domain registered 2002)
  • Skyscanner publishes warnings about impersonation scams using its name and logo on fake sites
  • No complaints, scam reports, or negative mentions found across web searches including Reddit
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Scamadviseropen

    "In summary, we think skyscannet.net is legit and safe for consumers to access."

  • Webrateopen

    "skyscannet.net is safe. Malware: not found. Phishing: not detected. Unwanted software: not found. Harmfull applications: not found."

Impersonation / typosquat
Typosquat of skyscanner.net

Domain name is a near-identical misspelling (skyscannet vs skyscanner); page title "Loading..." is consistent with potential redirect or clone behavior; Skyscanner actively warns about impersonation sites

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for skyscannet.net and found no scam complaints or negative user reviews. Two independent review aggregators rate the domain as safe. However, the legitimate Skyscanner travel site publishes active warnings about impersonation scams using its brand name and domain variations. The absence of complaints does not indicate legitimacy when combined with the typosquat naming, clone-site structure, and loading-only page content.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Critical cluster

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score
0/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Evidence (2)
  • Evidence confirms this site is a clone of skyscanner.net.
  • Domain is a typosquat of skyscanner.net.
Linked signals (2)
Clone of skyscanner.netTyposquat of skyscanner.net

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
1 engine flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 95 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

1Malicious0Suspicious64Harmless95Engines
0
of 95
Fortinet
Malicious· malware

1 antivirus engine flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 23, 2026 (73d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingLeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.
Server locationNL
Web servernginx

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1302http://skyscannet.net/
  • 2200http://survey-smiles.com/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPLeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

1 of 13 categories showed signals

We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.

Top match: Brand Impersonation
Brand Impersonation
Moderate likelihood
50/100
  • Domain is a typosquat of skyscanner.net.
  • AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
  • Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

  • Do not interact with skyscannet.net

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  • Go to the brand's real site directly

    Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.

  • Never download or sign in here

    Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.

  • Report the impersonation to the brand

    Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.

    Open

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 skyscannet.net as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — skyscannet.net scored 24/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. skyscannet.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 73 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • 1 out of 95 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged skyscannet.net as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. skyscannet.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • skyscannet.net resolves to an IP operated by LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. in NL (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 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around skyscannet.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·skyscannet.net
DANGEROUS

skyscannet.net is a typosquat clone of the legitimate travel site skyscanner.net. The domain mimics the real site's name, shows only a loading screen, lacks any business contact information, and Skyscanner itself warns about impersonation scams using its brand.

Do not enter any personal, payment, or login information on this site. If you intended to book travel, visit the legitimate skyscanner.net directly by typing the correct domain or searching for Skyscanner in your browser. Report this domain to Skyscanner's abuse team.

AV engines
95
MT passes
2
Net signals
2
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