No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is storagebox.ie legit or a scam?
Legitimate Irish mobile self-storage service founded in 2013 with mixed independent review aggregator reviews and clean overall scan results.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a genuine self-storage business serving Dublin and surrounding areas with clear service descriptions and contact phone numbers. Only two antivirus engines flagged it while the rest cleared it and browser blocklists showed nothing. Evidence confirms the company launched in 2013 under founder Vincent Smith with an active independent review aggregator profile holding a 4-star rating from 29 reviews. One negative independent review aggregator review mentions a delivery issue and surcharge, balanced by positive feedback on the same platform. No clone indicators, malware patterns, or scam-family matches appear in the scan or research. The combination of long operating history, professional page content, and limited complaints supports a safe classification.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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
Clean, professional storage company website with standard cookie banner and chat widget. No scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for storagebox.ie, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official site storagebox.ie describes mobile self-storage and storage units serving Dublin and East Coast Ireland since at least 2013
- Owner/founder Vincent Smith with over 20 years in self-storage industry; company launched 2013
- Active Facebook page StorageBox.ie with posts about events and services as recent as 2025
- Trustpilot page exists with 4-star rating based on 29 reviews
- No scam reports, malware mentions, or clone/typosquat indicators found across searches
- Separate company Storebox Self Storage (Ireland) Ltd (CRO 564387) operates storebox.ie
- Trustpilotopen
"Picked up my belongings on date requested. Failed to return belongings to me and wrongly blamed it on a failed delivery attempt. Surcharged me for the re ..."
- Trustpilotopen
"Storage Box listened to all our needs, which was great as we live abroad and weren't physically there when items were removed from our apt."
- Trustpilotopen
"StorageBox is Ireland's leading mobile self-storage service and provides mobile storage solutions in Dublin,Meath,Louth,Wicklow,Kildare,Westmeath,Monaghan"
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 (0818 88 28 28).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://storagebox.ie/
- 2200https://storagebox.ie/
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 storagebox.ie and not a lookalike like s-toragebox.ie.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
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 found no threat indicators on storagebox.ie. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- storagebox.ie passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. storagebox.ie presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, expiring in 54 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged storagebox.ie as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. storagebox.ie is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- storagebox.ie resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, 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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