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Report for Olx.ua

Report Date
October 6, 2025
Recommendation
Caution
Overall Summary
Suspicious
  Why we think so? 

OLX.ua is a large, established classifieds marketplace focused on Ukraine (about 56M monthly visits and Global Rank ~#482). ✅ The site uses professional infrastructure (AWS, CloudFront, Google Analytics) and has a valid TLS certificate. ⚠️ That said, many scam reports involve individual buyers/sellers on the platform (fake listings, phishing links, advance-payment fraud). Overall: the site itself looks legitimate, but user-level risk is material — use official payment/delivery channels and verify sellers.

Confidence Score
74%

Risk Insights

⚠️

High platform legitimacy, high user fraud exposure

  • Large, legitimate marketplace with professional infrastructure.
  • Frequent user-targeted scams (fake listings, phishing) mean buyer caution is essential.
  • Use official payments/delivery and verify sellers before paying.

Contradictory Signals

The platform is operationally legitimate, yet its scale and user-generated content create persistent scam risk for individual transactions.

Signal A: Robust technical infrastructure + valid TLS (signals of legitimacy)

Signal B: Numerous user-reported scams and regulatory warnings (signals of risk to buyers)

Category Scores

Red Flags & Warnings

  • Frequent user-level scam reports and official warnings about phishing and fake listings on OLX.ua.
  • Platform protections and paid ‘protection’ offerings have been subject to regulatory scrutiny in other OLX markets (consumer-protection rulings), which reduces assurance for buyers.
  • No public support email or phone discovered by the scraper, only social links — can slow resolution and verification for users.

🔎 Detailed Checks & Analysis

WHOIS & SSL

Score: 90/100
Passed

"WHOIS output shows a long-standing registration (creation timestamp present) and functioning DNS and MX records; certificate issued by Amazon is valid through 2026. Registrant contact is not publicly listed in the WHOIS returned data."

Reason: Domain has an old creation timestamp and DNS/MX/TXT records; TLS certificate is current and valid.

Traffic & popularity

Score: 95/100
Passed

"SimilarWeb and traffic snapshots report about 56M monthly visits, country concentration in Ukraine (~95%) and global rank ~#482, which supports platform legitimacy but also makes it attractive to scammers."

Reason: Extremely high monthly visits and top ranking in the classifieds category indicate a mainstream, high-usage site.

Technology & infrastructure

Score: 92/100
Passed

"SimilarTech lists cloud/CDN (Amazon CloudFront), modern servers (Route53) and many ad/analytics vendors (Google Analytics, Hotjar, Criteo) consistent with enterprise operations."

Reason: Use of AWS, CloudFront, Route53 and common analytics/ad vendors signals a professionally-run platform.

Contact details & transparency

Score: 70/100
Failed

"Site-contact scraper found social accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) but no clear customer-service email or phone number in the scraped results, which can complicate quick verification for users."

Reason: Public support email/phone not found in scraped output; presence of social accounts only provides limited direct contact options.

Blacklist & phishing checks

Score: 95/100
Passed

"Both Google Safe Browsing and the crypto scam sniffer returned no matched threats; no platform-level phishing or crypto-blacklist entries were found."

Reason: No Google Safe Browsing or crypto-scam blacklist hits for the domain.

Trademark / brand impersonation

Score: 80/100
Passed

"A USPTO search for 'olx.ua' returned no records; this does not replace local trademark checks in Ukraine or EU, but suggests no obvious US federal filings for that string."

Reason: No USPTO trademark hits for the specific query, lowering immediate US-registered brand impersonation risk (local trademark issues not assessed).

News & reputation monitoring

Score: 55/100
Failed

"Google News and aggregated reports include partnership/news coverage and regulatory enforcement in other markets; independent reports and police warnings document many user-targeted scams on OLX platforms."

Reason: Press and regulatory items report both legitimate business updates and consumer-protection concerns related to OLX Group’s protection offerings and frequent user scams.

Your Next Steps

  • 1

    Use OLX’s official payment/delivery options when offered and avoid paying sellers off-platform or via direct bank transfer before verification.

  • 2

    Verify seller profiles: check account age, listing history, and reviews; prefer sellers with multiple confirmed listings.

  • 3

    Never enter banking or identity details on external links sent by buyers/sellers; confirm URLs and use the official app/site.

  • 4

    If a deal involves large sums, use escrow or meet in person in a safe public place and inspect the item before paying.

  • 5

    Report suspicious listings to OLX and, if you lose money or encounter fraud, file a complaint with local cyberpolice and your bank immediately.

  • 6

    Keep screenshots and conversation logs as evidence for disputes or police reports.

Evidence & Citations

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