Is vaults.lol legit or a scam?
42-day-old link-in-bio clone with crypto-only checkout, subscription-trap signals, and no business registration — moderate scam risk.
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
Subscription trap / hidden billing
Domain is only 42 days old. A "free trial" or "$1 trial" combined with auto-renew language means your card will be charged repeatedly. Call your bank to block the merchant if you signed up.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a free, indie-built alternative to guns.lol and Linktree, with a one-time €5 lifetime unlock. However, our analysis detected two distinct scam-family patterns: crypto-only checkout (no credit card or reversible payment method) and subscription-trap template matching. The domain is only 42 days old, registered on a low-trust .lol TLD, with no verifiable business entity, no contact email on the domain, and no phone number. The hosting IP carries 65 abuse reports. While Reddit and TikTok posts from the claimed developer ('crispyon60fps') exist and describe the service positively, the combination of new-domain age, cryptocurrency-exclusive payment, template-kit fingerprints, and absence of legitimate business registration creates substantial fraud risk. The lack of scam complaints in our search does not offset these structural red flags.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for vaults.lol, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 42 days ago (very new project launched around June 2026).
- Solo indie project built by Reddit user crispyon60fps; one-person operation with no VC funding, supported via Telegram t.me/vaultslol.
- Pricing: Core features free forever (unlimited links, analytics, music, backgrounds); one-time €5 lifetime unlock for premium (video backgrounds via YouTube embeds, custom HTML, verified badge, chats, etc.). No subscriptions.
- Directly competes with and markets itself as superior free alternative to guns.lol and Haunt.gg; also compares to Linktree, Beacons, Carrd.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across web, Reddit, or search results. Positive promotional content and tutorial videos present.
- Site includes FAQ addressing bans (only for TOS violations like fraud, squatting), support, and explicitly states it is not affiliated with compared services.
- Uses IP-based restrictions to prevent account abuse/squatting; one premium purchase per IP lifts limits.
- Reddit r/SideProjectopen
"I built Vaults.lol — a free guns.lol alternative, Linktree alternative, and bio page builder with a €5 lifetime upgrade. Vaults gives you a customizable bio page with unlimited links, analytics... Lifetime upgrade for €5... one-time purchas"
- TikTokopen
"Vaults.lol - better guns.lol alternative, better linktree alternative... Stop paying $10/month for a linktree when vaults.lol exists. €5 once and you own everything forever. Free tier is actually good too."
- YouTubeopen
"How to Set Up Your Link in Bio Page on Vaults.lol (Free Linktree & guns.lol Alternative)"
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for vaults.lol and found zero scam complaints or negative reviews. Three positive mentions exist (Reddit, TikTok, YouTube), all attributed to or aligned with the claimed solo developer. No business registration, legal entity, or company details were found in any jurisdiction. The domain operator is identified only as 'crispyon60fps' and is reachable via Telegram. For a 42-day-old indie project, the absence of complaints is not unusual — but it does not validate the legitimacy of the crypto-only payment and subscription-trap signals our analysis detected.
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.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Scam family match: Crypto-Only Checkout.
- Scam family match: Subscription Trap.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://vaults.lol/
- 2200https://vaults.lol/
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.
- 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.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 42 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.
- 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.
- Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
- Fake-urgency countdown / high-pressure copy.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 42 days old — very young for a shop.
Subscription trap / negative-option billing
This page combines a "free trial" or "$1 trial" pitch with auto-renew / rebill language — a classic negative-option billing trap.
- Do not interact with vaults.lol
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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 flags vaults.lol as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — vaults.lol scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. vaults.lol presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- vaults.lol is 1 month old, registered on 5/7/2026 through Name.com, 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 vaults.lol as clean.
- No. vaults.lol is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vaults.lol resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, 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 June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around vaults.lol 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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