Security Review

Is turismo.benicassim.es legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 93/100

Official municipal tourism website for Benicàssim, Spain — operated by the town's tourism department with clean security scans and government endorsement.

turismo.benicassim.esScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 95·MT 92
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 98% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain turismo.benicassim.es is the legitimate official tourism site of Benicàssim municipality. Our antivirus network flagged zero threats across 92 engines, the hosting IP has a clean abuse score, and SSL is valid. The site is explicitly promoted and linked from the municipal government website ayto.benicassim.es, and contact details match the Concejalía de Turismo de Benicàssim (Tourism Department). Social media accounts (@turismobenicassim on Instagram, @tmobenicassim on X/Twitter) consistently reference this domain as the official source. Web searches found no scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions — only positive references from the municipality and official tourism channels. The page content is consistent with a legitimate tourism information site, offering guided tours, event listings, beach information, and festival details for the town.
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Page Content

The site presents itself as the official tourism portal for Benicàssim, Spain. It includes navigation for guided tours, beaches, festivals, events, accommodation, restaurants, and cultural attractions. The body text is in Spanish and Valencian, with sections on guided visits, virtual 360° tours, and monthly activity programs. No login forms, countdown timers, or push-notification spam were detected.

Infrastructure

Hosting IP 82.223.99.35 has an abuse score of 0/100 with zero abuse reports. SSL certificate is valid (Let's Encrypt R12, 65 days to expiry). No redirects, homoglyphs, or internationalized domain names detected. External resources loaded are standard (Google Fonts, Google Maps, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare CDN, YouTube embeds) — all legitimate third-party services typical of modern municipal websites.

Domain History

WHOIS data is unavailable, which is common for Spanish municipal domains. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings, consistent with a regional government site serving local tourism information rather than a high-traffic commercial platform.

Web Reputation

Zero detections across our antivirus network and browser blocklists. The site is explicitly linked and endorsed by the municipal government website ayto.benicassim.es. Official social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube) consistently reference turismo.benicassim.es as the authoritative source. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found in web searches.

Positive Signals
5
  • Explicitly linked and endorsed by the official municipal government website ayto.benicassim.es
  • Operated by the Concejalía de Turismo de Benicàssim (municipal tourism department) with verifiable contact details and physical address
  • Official social media accounts (@turismobenicassim, @tmobenicassim) consistently reference this domain as the authoritative source
  • Zero antivirus detections across 92 engines; clean hosting IP reputation and valid SSL certificate
  • No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions found in web searches
AI Recommendation
This is a safe, legitimate tourism information website operated by the Benicàssim municipal government. You can use it confidently to find information about guided tours, events, beaches, festivals, and attractions in Benicàssim, Spain.
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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for turismo.benicassim.es, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Spain
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • The domain turismo.benicassim.es is explicitly promoted and linked as the official tourism site on the municipal government website ayto.benicassim.es.
  • It is operated by the Concejalía de Turismo de Benicàssim (Tourism Department of Benicàssim), with contact details turismo@benicassim.org and physical address Calle Santo Tomás, 74.
  • The site provides official information on guided tours, events, beaches, festivals, and virtual tours for the town of Benicàssim, Spain.
  • Social media accounts (Instagram @turismobenicassim, Facebook, X/Twitter @tmobenicassim, YouTube) consistently reference and link to turismo.benicassim.es as the official source.
  • No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or fraud mentions were found across web searches including terms like scam, estafa, fraud, or review.
  • The municipal site ayto.benicassim.es and related government references confirm the legitimacy of the tourism department and its online presence.
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Ajuntament de Benicàssimopen

    "Benicàssim Turismo [Visitar](https://turismo.benicassim.es/)"

  • Instagram @turismobenicassimopen

    "IG oficial de la Concejalía de Turismo de Benicàssim"

Business registration
Status: active · Spain

Official tourism website of the Municipality of Benicàssim (Ajuntament de Benicàssim / Concejalía de Turismo). Linked directly from the municipal government site ayto.benicassim.es. Contact: turismo@benicassim.org, Calle Santo Tomás 74.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research confirmed that turismo.benicassim.es is the official tourism website of Benicàssim, a municipality in Spain. The site is directly linked and endorsed by the municipal government website (ayto.benicassim.es). The Instagram account @turismobenicassim is verified as the official account of the Tourism Department. No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions were found in web searches, consumer-review sites, or scam-report databases.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers964 300 102
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles5
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • Phone number listed (964 300 102).
  • Postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 5 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 23, 2026 (65d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
Hostingarsys.es
Server locationES
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWordPress

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISParsys.es
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 turismo.benicassim.es and not a lookalike like t-urismo.benicassim.es.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 found no threat indicators on turismo.benicassim.es. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • turismo.benicassim.es passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. turismo.benicassim.es presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report turismo.benicassim.es as clean.
  • No. turismo.benicassim.es is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • turismo.benicassim.es resolves to an IP operated by arsys.es in ES (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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around turismo.benicassim.es have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·turismo.benicassim.es
SAFE

This is the official tourism website of Benicàssim, a municipality in Spain. It is operated by the municipal tourism department, linked directly from the town's government site, and shows no signs of fraud or malicious activity.

This is a safe, legitimate tourism information website operated by the Benicàssim municipal government. You can use it confidently to find information about guided tours, events, beaches, festivals, and attractions in Benicàssim, Spain.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
1
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