Is sporcle.com legit or a scam?
Sporcle is a highly popular and established trivia website operating since 2007 with a strong reputation despite heavy advertising.
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
The domain has been active for nearly two decades and is owned by a registered U.S. corporation based in Seattle. Our antivirus network shows no malicious detections across more than 90 security engines. The site maintains a high global traffic rank and is widely recognized as a primary source for educational and entertainment quizzes. Although some users report aggressive advertising and occasional redirects, these are typical of high-traffic ad-supported platforms rather than a sign of a scam. The business has a verified physical presence and a clear history of legitimate operations.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sporcle.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active since 2007 (approx. 19 years old); launched April 23, 2007 by Matt Ramme; owned by Sporcle, Inc., a privately held company based in Seattle, WA.
- BBB profile: A+ rating, not accredited, business started/incorporated Dec 2010, no complaints or customer reviews listed.
- Scamadviser: Very likely safe/legit and reliable; positives include high popularity (Tranco rank ~180), old domain, valid SSL; negatives: WHOIS identity hidden, mainly negative reviews.
- Trustpilot: 2/5 score from 23 reviews; common complaints about intrusive ads, pop-ups, subscription issues, and poor customer support (from app/Google Play reviews as well).
- Wikipedia and company site confirm millions of quizzes, billions of plays, live trivia events, acquisitions (e.g. Stump! Trivia in 2020); no major controversies noted.
- Some user reports of redirects to scam sites while on Sporcle and heavy ad presence; app reviews mixed with frustration over ads despite paid membership.
- No evidence of malware distribution, phishing, or direct fraud by the site itself; legitimate long-standing trivia platform.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, sporcle.com is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
- Wikipediaopen
"Sporcle is a trivia and pub quiz website created by trivia enthusiast Matt Ramme. First launched on April 23, 2007"
- Sporcle About pageopen
"Sporcle is a privately held company based in Seattle with teammates across the country."
Sporcle, Inc. incorporated 12/15/2010 in Washington (also referenced as Delaware corp in some filings); BBB profile lists Seattle address 3610 Albion Pl N; privately held company; principals include Ali Aydar (President/CEO), Matthew Ramme.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (83497754).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sporcle.com/
- 2301https://sporcle.com/
- 3200https://www.sporcle.com/cross-domain
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 sporcle.com and not a lookalike like s-porcle.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 found no threat indicators on sporcle.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sporcle.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sporcle.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 126 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sporcle.com is 19.4 years old, registered on 1/30/2007 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report sporcle.com as clean.
- No. sporcle.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sporcle.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. sporcle.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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