Is vinted.com legit or a scam?
Vinted is a legitimate, high-traffic fashion marketplace established in 2008 with over 27 years of domain history.
Analysis Summary
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
The domain has been registered since 1999 and is operated by a verified Lithuanian company with over 1,700 employees. Our analysis shows it is a top-tier global site with a clean security record across all major antivirus engines. While there are numerous user complaints on independent review sites, these primarily concern customer service and peer-to-peer disputes rather than the legitimacy of the site itself. The infrastructure is robust, using valid SSL and high-reputation hosting. We found no evidence of phishing or malicious intent on the primary domain.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for vinted.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- vinted.com is the official website of Vinted Group UAB, a legitimate Lithuanian company founded in 2008 in Vilnius, now with 2,000+ employees across Europe and high revenue.
- Domain registered in 1999 (over 27 years old), high traffic (strong Tranco rank), valid SSL; Scamadviser rates it "Very Likely Safe" and "legit and safe for consumers to access" despite hidden WHOIS owner.
- Trustpilot score for vinted.com is very low at 1.2/5 from ~21,700 reviews, with widespread complaints about poor/automated customer service, refund disputes, account bans, and failure to handle scams or counterfeit items effectively.
- Platform has significant user-reported issues with scammers (counterfeits, non-delivery, buyer/seller fraud), though Vinted provides buyer protection for in-app purchases and warns users about phishing.
- Official company pages, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and business registries (Rekvizitai.lt) confirm active status, substantial funding (unicorn valuation), and operations in 26+ European markets.
- Negative reviews and scam discussions are common on Reddit, Facebook groups, and YouTube, often criticizing Vinted's moderation and support rather than the site itself being fraudulent.
- No evidence of vinted.com being a phishing or clone site; the company itself publishes guides on recognizing spoof/phishing messages impersonating Vinted.
- Trustpilotopen
"There is child trafficking happening on this website. They sell items for very high prices and then list in the description nasty things about the child that is actually being sold."
- Redditopen
"Vinted is a scam and it is full of scammers. Over the last two years I've lost £175 selling on vinted , it's not even worth it to sell on there anymore. Scammed twice."
- Trustpilot (vinted.co.uk)open
"Vinted complicit in fraud. Evri lost a delivery that was being returned to me. It got returned to the buyer & they are now re selling the item after being refunded."
- Action Fraudopen
"Vinted Scams"
Vinted, UAB registered 2008 (code 302767152), HQ Vilnius, low credit risk, share capital €16.7M, revenue ~€999M (2025), ~1,700+ employees, Lithuania's first unicorn (2019)
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2099-01-01).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://vinted.com/
- 2200https://www.vinted.com/cross-domain
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 vinted.com and not a lookalike like v-inted.com.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
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 found no threat indicators on vinted.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- vinted.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. vinted.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 41 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- vinted.com is 27.0 years old, registered on 6/25/1999 through INWX GmbH. 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 vinted.com as clean.
- No. vinted.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vinted.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.
- Yes. vinted.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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