Is trash-mbca-tweet.com legit or a scam?
A third-party promotional site for TotalAV antivirus that uses an unrelated domain name and features subscription-trap billing patterns.
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
Free-trial billing red flags
A third-party promotional site for TotalAV antivirus that uses an unrelated domain name and features subscription-trap billing patterns. A free trial paired with auto-renew fine print is a negative-option billing pattern. Read the terms carefully before giving a card.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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
The page displays a professional and clean design consistent with a legitimate cybersecurity service provider, with no immediate visual indicators of scam or deceptive patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding and high-quality typography
Standard navigation menu including About, Features, Pricing, and Blog
No visible countdown timers or artificial urgency tactics
No suspicious pop-ups or intrusive permission prompts
Design matches the established visual identity of the TotalAV brand
MT Intelligence
The domain trash-mbca-tweet.com is an affiliate marketing site rather than an official brand portal. Our analysis shows it is operated by Mobici BV, a company that uses various domains to advertise security software. The primary risk involves the pricing structure, which offers a low initial entry fee followed by a significantly higher automatic renewal price. This pattern is frequently associated with subscription traps where users may overlook the long-term costs. Additionally, the domain name itself is nonsensical and does not match the product being sold, which is a common tactic for short-lived advertising campaigns.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for trash-mbca-tweet.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hosts a promotional page titled "TotalAV — Antivirus & Cybersecurity for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android" promoting TotalAV Plus at £19 first year then £99 auto-renewal, with 30-day money-back guarantee and cancellation via support@total
- Site explicitly discloses: "This website trash-mbca-tweet.com is a promotional domain operated by Mobici BV, a company registered in Belgium (Turnhout 2300), registration number BE0632.867.986. The domain is used exclusively for advertising
- Other pages on the domain (e.g. /lp1/, /home/) contain generic antivirus/security promo text or unrelated content (moving services, software comparison claims), with affiliate disclaimers such as "This promotion is operated by a third-party
- No independent scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews mentioning trash-mbca-tweet.com were found across web searches.
- Mobici BV appears in company registries as active since 2015; no direct links to fraud found, though the domain name is unusual and other subpages show templated/mixed content typical of affiliate marketing.
- TotalAV has an official affiliate program; this site aligns with common third-party promotional tactics that can lead to subscription trap complaints for the underlying product.
- Domain age of ~202 days (registered late 2025) is consistent with short-lived affiliate marketing domains.
Mobici BV registered in Turnhout (BE0632.867.986 / BE0632867986), incorporated 2015; operates the domain as a promotional/advertising site for TotalAV
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Scam family match: Subscription Trap.
- Phone number listed (0632.867.986).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://trash-mbca-tweet.com/
- 2200https://trash-mbca-tweet.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
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.
- Free-trial / $1-trial pitch combined with auto-renew / rebill language.
- Primary scraped category: subscription trap / negative-option billing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
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.
- Free-trial / $1-trial pitch combined with auto-renew / rebill language.
- Primary scraped category: subscription trap / negative-option billing.
- AI analyst tagged this as a subscription trap.
Suspicious free-trial offer
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Treat trash-mbca-tweet.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Your card will be charged the full price after the trial
Most subscription traps bill the full amount ($49-$149) 14 days after sign-up, and every month thereafter. "Cancel anytime" often means you must call a foreign support line that's deliberately hard to reach.
- If you already signed up — call your bank today
Ask your bank to block future charges from the merchant and dispute any charges already made. Many banks will issue a new card number to prevent recurring billing. Save the confirmation email as evidence.
- OpenReport the billing scheme
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or your national consumer-protection body — subscription traps are specifically illegal in most jurisdictions when the auto-bill terms aren't clearly disclosed.
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review marked trash-mbca-tweet.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- trash-mbca-tweet.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. trash-mbca-tweet.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- trash-mbca-tweet.com is 6 months old, registered on 12/12/2025 through NameCheap, 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 trash-mbca-tweet.com as clean.
- No. trash-mbca-tweet.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- trash-mbca-tweet.com 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around trash-mbca-tweet.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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