Is This Online Store Legit?
Check an unfamiliar online store's domain age, HTTPS, and basic trust signals before you order.
Domain age check
Brand-new domains selling big discounts are a red flag.
SSL & security check
Confirms the store's basic security hygiene.
WHOIS & ownership
See who actually registered the store's domain.
Scam pattern flags
Checks against common storefront-scam signals.
How it works
Fake stores advertised through social media ads are a fast-growing scam — you order, pay, and the product never arrives. This tool checks the domain's age and DNS health, whether it uses HTTPS, and whether the site has basic trust signals real stores almost always have: a return policy, contact information, a physical address, an about page.
A single missing signal isn't necessarily a red flag on its own — small legitimate stores sometimes skip an About page — but a site missing most of them, especially combined with a very new domain, is worth real caution before you pay.
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Frequently asked questions
The store has good reviews on its own site — is that reliable?
No — reviews displayed on a store's own website are trivial to fake and shouldn't be trusted on their own. Look for reviews on independent platforms instead, and weigh them alongside the domain age, HTTPS, and contact-info checks this tool runs.
Is a store automatically safe if it takes credit cards?
Not necessarily — scam stores can still process real credit card payments through legitimate payment processors; the fraud is in never shipping the product or shipping something different, not in the payment mechanism itself.
What's the biggest red flag this tool checks for?
Domain age combined with no clear contact information or return policy — a store selling heavily discounted branded goods from a domain registered weeks ago, with no way to reach a real person, is one of the most consistent scam patterns.
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