Possible brand impersonation
Tumblr content scraper and mirror site that loads posts without official permission and offers a login form. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Is tumbex.com legit or a scam?
Tumblr content scraper and mirror site that loads posts without official permission and offers a login form.
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 site presents itself as a gallery viewer for Tumblr blogs with search and NSFW filtering features. Strongest signal is the confirmed clone relationship to tumblr.com, including scraping of posts and tags. Domain is over 12 years old with clean IP reputation and no blocklist hits. No scam reports or malware detections appear in our research. The presence of a login form on a non-official mirror adds moderate risk for credential exposure.
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 tumbex.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered 2014-05-20 via OVH, expires 2026-05-20; private WHOIS
- Site describes itself as Tumblr viewer/gallery indexing posts with captions/tags, including NSFW detection
- Tumblr official help page lists tumbex.com among unauthorized mirror/scraper sites
- ScamAdviser: 'Very Likely Safe' with note on hidden owner identity and some negative reviews
- No malware/phishing detections reported in multiple scanner results
- Reddit discussions reference it as Tumblr content viewer, one old WOT review called it malware-loaded
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, It seems that tumbex.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
Scrapes and mirrors Tumblr posts without permission
Scam Network Intelligence
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 (001398354).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://tumbex.com/
- 2301https://tumbex.com/
- 3404https://www.tumbex.com/cross-domain
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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat tumbex.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 marked tumbex.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.
- tumbex.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. tumbex.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 40 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tumbex.com is 12.0 years old, registered on 5/20/2014 through OVH sas. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. tumbex.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tumbex.com resolves to an IP operated by OVH SAS in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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