Is yokochu-ynu.com legit or a scam?
A malicious clone of William Hill using a hijacked Japanese school domain to run an unlicensed gambling scam.
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
6 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (5 outright malicious). 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.
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this site is a deceptive clone of the legitimate William Hill brand. The domain was originally used by a Japanese junior high school but has been repurposed to host gambling content in Chinese. Five different antivirus engines, including Fortinet and CyRadar, have flagged the site as malicious or malware-related. There is no legitimate business registration or contact information provided, which is a hallmark of offshore scam operations. The site specifically targets users with 2026 World Cup lures while operating entirely outside of legal gambling regulations.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yokochu-ynu.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain yokochu-ynu.com was previously the official website of Yokohama National University Affiliated Junior High School (Yokohama Chugaku), with historical references from 2018–2019 linking to educational research and school events.
- Current page title is exactly "英国·威廉希尔(William·Hill)集团有限公司-官方网站" claiming to be the official site of British William Hill Group.
- Page description promotes "世界杯2026" (2026 World Cup), strategic games, user analysis, and entertainment, using language common in Chinese gambling scam sites.
- The legitimate William Hill website is williamhill.com, a major UK gambling company founded in 1934, now part of Evoke plc; it does not use this domain.
- Hundreds of similar fake "英国威廉希尔" or "William Hill 中文官网" sites exist (e.g. jcoohill.com, xjflgf.com, xolmart.com), all using unrelated domains with copied institutional templates to appear official.
- No reviews, complaints, or mentions of yokochu-ynu.com in scam databases or forums were found in searches; the domain appears repurposed from its prior legitimate educational use.
- Domain age of ~775 days (registered ~mid-2024) post-dates the school's documented use of the domain, indicating it was likely acquired and repurposed for the current gambling-themed content.
Page title and description impersonate William Hill (a real UK bookmaker) with fake 'official website' claims in Chinese, mentioning games and entertainment. Real site is williamhill.com; this uses unrelated subdomain and typical scam template language.
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.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://yokochu-ynu.com/
- 2200https://www.yokochu-ynu.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
1 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.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with yokochu-ynu.com
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 yokochu-ynu.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — yokochu-ynu.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. yokochu-ynu.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- yokochu-ynu.com is 2.1 years old, registered on 5/10/2024 through Gname.com Pte. Ltd.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged yokochu-ynu.com as malicious or suspicious (5 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. yokochu-ynu.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yokochu-ynu.com resolves to an IP operated by Uscloud Inc in HK (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 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around yokochu-ynu.com 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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