Brand impersonation — not the real site
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. 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.
Is youtuce.com legit or a scam?
Yes — this is almost certainly a scam.
Typosquat of youtube.com showing a parked page with generic search links and one malware flag from Fortinet.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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.
What this means for you
You were probably about to log in or pay, thinking this was the real company.
It's a look-alike copy, not the genuine site. Your login or payment goes to scammers — the real company never sees it.
How this scam works
The trap, step by step
They register a look-alike domain and copy a trusted brand's website.
You arrive via a link or ad, believing it's the genuine company.
You log in or pay — to the impostor, not the brand.
Your credentials or money go to the scammers; the real company never sees it.
Recognising the pattern is the best defence — if a site follows these steps, close it and don't enter anything.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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 is a parked domain landing page featuring generic search links, which is a common pattern for monetized, non-functional domains.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsPage appears parked or non-functional
Domain displays a list of unrelated 'Related Searches' links
Layout consists of generic buttons with no actual website content
Intelligence
The domain name youtuce.com is an obvious misspelling of youtube.com, which our fingerprinting flagged as both a clone and typosquat. The page itself displays no functional content, only a loading message and unrelated search links, matching the visual assessment of a parked domain. Two antivirus engines flagged the URL, with Fortinet specifically calling it malware. The domain itself is over 20 years old and has clean IP reputation, yet no business registration or contact details exist. One independent report from PCrisk gave it a 2/100 trust score and labeled it potentially dangerous. These signals together point to a domain that was likely registered for brand confusion but is not currently hosting active malicious content.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for youtuce.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain youtuce.com is a typosquat of the legitimate video-sharing platform YouTube.
- Security scanners, such as PCrisk, have flagged the domain as 'Potentially Dangerous' with a very low trust score (2/100).
- Historical usage of the domain appears to involve misdirected links or references in various online articles and third-party tools.
- There is no evidence of a legitimate business entity associated with this domain.
- The domain has been observed in contexts where it is incorrectly cited as a source for media or as a placeholder link.
- PCriskopen
"Is youtuce.com safe? Potentially Dangerous — trust score 2/100, 2/91 engines flagged."
The domain name 'youtuce.com' is a clear typosquat of 'youtube.com', designed to mimic the popular video-sharing platform.
Our research found one report from PCrisk labeling youtuce.com as potentially dangerous with a trust score of 2/100. The report highlights that the domain is a typosquat of youtube.com and has been used in misdirected links or placeholder references. No positive reviews, business registrations, or legitimate business mentions were located across consumer review sites or scam-report databases.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 16, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 years old today.
- Jul 21, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
youtuce.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 21 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 21 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
1 of 21 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 21 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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
- 1302http://youtuce.com/
- 2200http://survey-smiles.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with youtuce.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.
Final Verdict
youtuce.com is a 20-year-old domain that currently shows a parked landing page with generic search links. The name is a clear typosquat of youtube.com and one security scanner flagged it as potentially dangerous.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- youtuce.com is a dangerous brand impersonation — do not enter your login or personal details. Our review tagged it for parked domain and clone site. 2 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). The domain is 20.5 years old through Media Elite Holdings Limited, S.A.. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — youtuce.com scored just 20/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on youtuce.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on youtuce.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- If you entered anything on youtuce.com, assume it was captured. Phishing pages exist purely to harvest what you type — usernames, passwords, card numbers, or one-time codes. Change the password immediately on the real site and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and if you entered card or banking details, contact your bank about the risk of fraud. Also be alert for follow-up "security" calls or emails that try to exploit the same information.
- You can report youtuce.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 2 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged youtuce.com, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — youtuce.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- youtuce.com is 20.5 years old, registered on January 16, 2006 through Media Elite Holdings Limited, S.A.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- youtuce.com resolves to an IP operated by HIVELOCITY, Inc. in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 21, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about youtuce.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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