Is under250art.ca legit or a scam?
23-day-old clone of Y2Mate YouTube downloader flagged by security scanners as phishing/spam risk with inconsistent business details and no legitimate verification.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 23 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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 depicts a YouTube-to-MP3/MP4 conversion service branded as Y2Mate, a category of site associated with copyright circumvention and historically known for aggressive ad/push-notification overlays not visible in this render; no acute phishing or credential-harvesting patterns are visible in this screenshot.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsYouTube video downloader/converter tool visible, which facilitates copyright infringement by design
No visible URL bar to confirm the actual domain, preventing clone detection
Site presents itself as 'Y2Mate' brand with logo and search/convert interface for YouTube content
Trending music tracks listed (Billie Jean, Beat It, etc.) suggesting copyrighted content is targeted for download
Minimal navigation with only 'Home' and 'How to Download' links — no privacy policy, terms, or legal notices visible
MT Intelligence
The domain under250art.ca was registered only 23 days ago and directly clones the established Y2Mate YouTube-to-MP3/MP4 converter service. Our network fingerprint confirms it copies the branding, interface, and content from y2mate.com while operating under a separate domain — a classic impersonation pattern. Independent security scanners rate it 18.8/100 (Scam-Detector) and 37/100 (Gridinsoft), both flagging phishing and spam risks. The site lists conflicting founder names (Matt Diggity vs. Alexander Parvus) and a US address in Wyoming, but no verifiable business registration exists in Canada or the US. YouTube downloader clones are historically used to distribute adware and malware; the absence of any legitimate business verification combined with the new registration age and direct brand impersonation creates a high-confidence malicious profile.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for under250art.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 23 days ago (very new).
- Multiple security scanners flag it: Scam-Detector 18.8/100 (suspicious, phishing/spam risks), Gridinsoft 37/100 with vendor blacklists.
- Site presents itself as Y2Mate YouTube to MP3/MP4 downloader, directly copying branding, interface descriptions, and features from the established y2mate.com.
- About/How-to pages list inconsistent company details: one references "CEO & Founder: Matt Diggity" with Wyoming address; another names founder "Alexander Parvus".
- No independent positive user reviews or legitimate business verification found; searches return only scanner warnings and the site itself.
- YouTube download tools like Y2Mate are frequently abused for adware/malware delivery; official warnings exist against clone sites.
- Scam-Detector.comopen
"The Scam Detector’s algorithm gives this business the following rank: 18.8/100 ... New. Suspicious. Dubious. ... high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming ... under250art.ca is a suspicious website"
- Gridinsoft.comopen
"Multiple security vendors blacklist Under250art.ca, and our checks show a 37/100 trust score. Avoid entering personal or payment data."
Site claims US address in Cheyenne, Wyoming (1712 Pioneer Ave) and conflicting founders (Matt Diggity / Alexander Parvus); no verifiable company records found. Domain registered ~23 days ago.
Page title, description, and content heavily impersonate the well-known Y2Mate YouTube downloader (official y2mate.com). Site links to y2mate.com in About Us while operating under under250art.ca. Multiple warnings for similar clone sites.
Our research found two scam reports. Scam-Detector rated under250art.ca 18.8/100, flagging it as suspicious with high-risk activity related to phishing and spamming. Gridinsoft assigned 37/100 and noted multiple security vendor blacklists, advising users to avoid entering personal or payment data. The site is confirmed to be a clone of y2mate.com, copying branding, interface, and content from the legitimate service. Business registration checks revealed conflicting founder names (Matt Diggity and Alexander Parvus) and an unverifiable US address in Cheyenne, Wyoming; no legitimate company records exist in Canada or the US. No independent positive reviews or user testimonials were found; all web search results return only security warnings and the clone site itself.
Scam Network Intelligence
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (2009-2025).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://under250art.ca/
- 2200https://under250art.ca/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Domain is 23 days old — very young for a shop.
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Domain is 23 days old — very young for a shop.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with under250art.ca
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags under250art.ca as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — under250art.ca scored 24/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. under250art.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 73 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- under250art.ca is 23 days old, registered on 5/20/2026 through CENTRALNIC CANADA INC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged under250art.ca as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. under250art.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- under250art.ca 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.
- Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for under250art.ca: ScamAdviser: 61/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.
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