No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is udemy.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 17-year-old online learning platform with subscription billing complaints but clean security scans and active US business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the real Udemy education platform, not a clone or impersonator. Its domain was registered over 16 years ago with valid SSL and a clean IP reputation showing zero meaningful abuse reports. Business records confirm a US company founded in 2010 that remains active. While independent review aggregator, BBB, and ConsumerAffairs list many complaints focused on trial billing and refunds, these reflect service issues rather than fraud or malware. No blocklist hits or sandbox detections were recorded, supporting a safe classification.
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 udemy.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain udemy.com registered since ~2009 (6133 days as of query); company founded 2010 in US.
- BBB profile: Not accredited; 188 complaints in last 3 years, 74 in last 12 months; common issues with subscriptions, trials, refunds.
- Trustpilot rating ~1.6/5 from ~1,886 reviews; frequent complaints about customer service, refunds, and subscription billing.
- Official Udemy support pages warn users about phishing/scams impersonating Udemy (e.g., fake support emails, off-site payments).
- Wikipedia and PitchBook: US-based edtech company, ~1,300-1,380 employees, acquired/merged status noted in some profiles.
- Positive mentions include lifetime access to courses and variety of content; some users report no issues with purchases.
- No typosquat or clone indicators found; searches primarily surface reviews/complaints about the real Udemy service.
- Trustpilotopen
"Horrible SCAM!!! Extremely disappointed with both Udemy and this course experience - Horrible experience!"
- Trustpilotopen
"SCAM! Misleading advertising and non-existent support. Purchased a Personal Plan subscription for $145 specifically to access certain courses that were explicitly marked as "Included in Personal Plan"."
- BBBopen
"The free 7 day trial is false and misleading marketing and sales practices aimed to fraud customers."
- ConsumerAffairsopen
"BEWARE OF SUBSCRIPTION PLANS: This company uses a deceitful and persuasive model to get you to sign up for their 7-day trial. On the 7th day, right as you think to cancel, they charge your card for a full year of subscription."
Founded May 2010 as corporation; BBB file opened 2012; 16 years in business per BBB; parent company listed as Coursera in some sources
Our research found four scam-related complaints on independent review aggregator, BBB, and ConsumerAffairs describing issues with 7-day trials turning into full-year charges and poor refund support. Two positive reviews on ConsumerAffairs and Reddit describe successful course purchases without problems. The company maintains an active US business registration since 2010 with 188 total complaints logged over three years, mostly about billing practices rather than outright fraud.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
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 udemy.com and not a lookalike like u-demy.com.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.
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 udemy.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- udemy.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. udemy.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- udemy.com is 16.8 years old, registered on 8/13/2009 through SafeNames Ltd.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. udemy.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- udemy.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.
- 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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