Critical risk detected
6 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is spoo.me legit or a scam?
URL shortener with six phishing detections and reports tying shortened links to malicious Discord and phishing campaigns.
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
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a functional URL shortener with login, custom aliases, and analytics features. Six engines including alphaMountain.ai, CyRadar, and Webroot explicitly flag it for phishing. Independent reports on Reddit and sandbox analyses show specific shortened URLs used for phishing and malicious activity. Positive signals exist such as an open-source GitHub repository and mentions on developer platforms, yet the combination of detections and abuse reports outweighs them. The domain shows no business registration and limited public history, increasing uncertainty about its safe use.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for spoo.me, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Open-source project on GitHub (spoo-me/spoo) with API, custom slugs, password protection, and analytics
- Listed on Microsoft Store as Windows app (Feb 2024), RapidAPI, and public APIs directories
- Multiple scam-checking sites (Scamadviser, Gridinsoft, Scamdoc) flag low trust/phishing risk with blacklists
- Reddit user flagged a spoo.me link as phishing in Vinted scam discussion
- urlquery.net report shows DNS sinkholing by multiple providers (DNS4EU, DNS0, CIRA) and Cloudflare IP
- LinkedIn company page claims 5M+ links and 90M+ redirects powered; Open Collective for donations
- Specific shortened URL (spoo.me/c8hNnA) sandboxed as malicious/phishing activity on any.run
- scamadviser.comopen
"The trust score of spoo.me is extremely low . This is a strong indicator that the website may be a scam."
- gridinsoft.comopen
"Phishing This site is classified as Phishing based on multiple risk signals, including 11 blacklist detections, no established public user-review history, and phishing-related signals."
- scamdoc.comopen
"Negative reviews have been detected on the internet .. The owner of the domain name associated with this site is hidden in the Whois database."
- reddit.comopen
"It's a phishing link to get your information . [deleted]. • 3mo ago. "spoo.me"."
- any.runopen
"Online sandbox report for https://spoo.me/c8hNnA, tagged as discord, phishing, websocket, verdict: Malicious activity."
- linkedin.comopen
"Deepak Shukla, founder of Pearl Lemon Group, described his experience using spoo.me — and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves! “spoo.me is the MacGyver of URL shorteners... chaos-proof in the best way possible.”"
- github.comopen
"spoo.me is an open-source & API first link management infra"
- devpost.comopen
"spoo.me is a free, ad-free and easy-to-use URL shortener that lets you create short links for any website. You can even choose your own alias, set a password, and limit the number of clicks."
- opencollective.comopen
"spoo.me is a free, ad-free and open-source URL Shortener, powering over 1M short links across the internet. We have served over 15M clicks so far."
Five scam reports were found across review sites and forums. independent review aggregator, Gridinsoft, and independent review aggregator cite low trust scores, blacklist detections, and hidden ownership. A Reddit thread flagged a spoo.me link as phishing in a Vinted scam discussion, and an any.run sandbox report labeled a shortened URL as malicious with phishing tags. Four positive mentions on LinkedIn, GitHub, Devpost, and Open Collective describe the project as an open-source URL shortener with claimed usage stats.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@spoo.me).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://spoo.me/
- 2200https://spoo.me/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with spoo.me
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.
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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags spoo.me as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — spoo.me scored 17/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. spoo.me presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 36 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 spoo.me as malicious or suspicious (6 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. spoo.me is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- spoo.me resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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