Is testiqs.com safe?

The subscription trap: 10p in, £49.90 a month out

The core mechanism is a classic low-friction subscription trap. A user report states that the company charged a young person 10p for an IQ test and then signed them up to a £49.90 subscription without consent. The small initial amount is designed to feel harmless and to capture payment details; the recurring charge is the actual product.

This is not an isolated complaint. Watchlist Internet, an Austrian consumer-protection resource, lists testiqs.com under its "Abo-Falle" (subscription trap) category, explicitly warning users about the site. The presence of an independent consumer-protection warning corroborates the user report and shows the pattern is recognised beyond a single incident.

The site's own presentation reinforces the trap: the visible page text invites visitors to "Take our IQ test, discover your real IQ score now!" — a free-sounding hook that leads into the paid funnel. The commercial call-to-action is to start testing and sign up, which is where the payment details are captured.

Thin operator identity and adverse reputation signals

The operator identity is minimal. The site identifies itself only as "testiqs team" and provides a support email on its own domain (support@testiqs.com). No physical address, phone number or formal business registration is disclosed, so there is no verifiable entity behind the billing.

The domain is 356 days old, which is young for a service that takes recurring payments. A short operating history combined with an undisclosed operator makes it harder for a customer to seek recourse after an unexpected charge.

Independent reputation signals are adverse. Gridinsoft classifies the site as a "Suspicious Shop" based on multiple risk signals, including a low 1.3/5 user rating from 61 reviews. A saved antivirus observation also marked the URL as suspicious, though that result is stale and should be treated as context rather than a fresh detection.

Clean technical checks do not make the billing model safe

The technical layer looks clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean the site is not currently serving malware or running an obvious phishing page, and that traffic to it is encrypted.

That is not the risk here. The harm described in the evidence is financial and consent-based: a nominal charge followed by an undisclosed recurring subscription, reported by a user and independently flagged by a consumer-protection body. A site can pass every technical check and still operate a deceptive billing funnel, which is exactly what the evidence indicates for TestIQs.