Is animeswordshop.com safe?
http://animeswordshop.com/
Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
Anime Sword Shop is a Shopify storefront flagged as a suspicious shop, with external warnings of non-delivery and a self-manipulable review system.
animeswordshop.com presents itself as "Anime Sword Shop™️", a Shopify-based store selling anime-themed swords, with a normal-looking shop flow: a Shop link, "Shop Now!" buttons, a cart, and "Add to cart" controls. The technical side is unremarkable — a valid encrypted connection and no the browser threat feed warning — but the operator side is not. Independent research classifies the site as a "Suspicious Shop" with a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews, one review states flatly that it is a scam, and a review-monitoring service notes the site uses a review tool the owner can edit, hide or reorder. The site also publishes no postal address, so there is no verifiable physical business behind the storefront. That combination — a real-looking shop with adverse external warnings and no accountable operator — places it in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
animeswordshop.com presents itself as "Anime Sword Shop™️", a Shopify-based store selling anime-themed swords, with a normal-looking shop flow: a Shop link, "Shop Now!" buttons, a cart, and "Add to cart" controls. The technical side is unremarkable — a valid encrypted connection and no the browser threat feed warning — but the operator side is not. Independent research classifies the site as a "Suspicious Shop" with a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews, one review states flatly that it is a scam, and a review-monitoring service notes the site uses a review tool the owner can edit, hide or reorder. The site also publishes no postal address, so there is no verifiable physical business behind the storefront. That combination — a real-looking shop with adverse external warnings and no accountable operator — places it in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
External warnings point to a suspicious shop, not a normal store
Independent research classifies animeswordshop.com as a "Suspicious Shop" based on multiple risk signals, including a blacklist detection and a low 2.4/5 user rating drawn from 10 reviews. A separate review entry states bluntly that the site is a scam. These are adverse external assessments, not the site's own marketing.
A review-monitoring service adds a structural concern: the site uses review tools it can manipulate itself, meaning the owner can decide not to show, edit or prioritise reviews. That undercuts the value of any on-site testimonials a shopper might see.
A saved antivirus observation also marked the URL as suspicious, though that detection is stale and should be treated as a real but time-limited signal rather than a live verdict.
No postal address and limited operator disclosure
The captured page shows no operator postal address, so there is no verifiable physical location or legal business name behind the storefront. For a shop that asks visitors to add physical goods to a cart and check out, that absence matters: if an order goes wrong, there is no address to serve or verify.
The site does list a contact email on its own domain (support@animeswordshop.com) and a phone number. Those are genuine contact channels and count in the site's favour, but they do not substitute for a disclosed business identity or address.
Clean technical checks do not clear the operator risk
The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those results mean no technical threat was detected at scan time; they say nothing about whether orders are fulfilled or whether the operator is accountable.
The domain is 740 days old, which is older than a throwaway scam domain and is a mildly supportive signal. It does not outweigh the adverse external classification and the low user rating, because a shop can operate for two years while still generating non-delivery and quality complaints.
Why the score is 38
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews.". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Welcome To Anime Sword Shop™️
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Welcome To Anime Sword Shop™️
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Anime Swords™️
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 012 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews."
- 022 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website is using tools to show reviews which it can manipulate itself. In theory, the owner of the site can decide to not show, edit or prioritize reviews."
- 03No operator postal address is visible on the captured page.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually does here
A visitor arriving on the page sees "Shop Now!" and "Add to cart" controls and a cart, which lead into a standard checkout flow for physical sword products. The action is a normal purchase, and the resulting exposure is paying for goods that external warnings say may not arrive or may arrive as wrong or low-quality items.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
Because the site publishes no postal address and its review display can be edited by the owner, a buyer who pays has limited recourse and limited ability to trust on-site reviews. That is the practical consequence of the operator-accountability gap.
Do not place an order on animeswordshop.com. The site looks like a functioning Shopify sword shop, but independent research classifies it as a suspicious shop with a low user rating and a scam report, and its review system can be manipulated by the owner. If you have already paid, contact your card issuer or payment provider promptly to dispute the charge, and treat any on-site reviews as unreliable.
Web research findings
Independent findings for animeswordshop.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Gridinsoftopen
"This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews."
- Gridinsoftopen
"It's a scam site. 100 %."
- Scamadviseropen
"This website is using tools to show reviews which it can manipulate itself. In theory, the owner of the site can decide to not show, edit or prioritize reviews."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The 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.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainanimeswordshop.com
- Redirects toanimeswordshop.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · loox.io
Domain Timeline
- Oct 10, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
animeswordshop.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.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@animeswordshop.com).
- Phone number listed (129.99 42).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
The site refused our redirect check, so the chain below is the one our page reader followed.
- 1301http://animeswordshop.com/
- 2200https://animeswordshop.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews." · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website is using tools to show reviews which it can manipulate itself. In theory, the owner of the site can decide to not show, edit or prioritize reviews."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimited
- FindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is animeswordshop.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is animeswordshop.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to animeswordshop.com?
Can I get my money back from animeswordshop.com?
I ordered from animeswordshop.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report animeswordshop.com?
Why does animeswordshop.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has animeswordshop.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is animeswordshop.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the animeswordshop.com domain?
Does animeswordshop.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Anime Sword Shop is a Shopify storefront flagged as a suspicious shop, with external warnings of non-delivery and a self-manipulable review system.
animeswordshop.com presents itself as "Anime Sword Shop™️", a Shopify-based store selling anime-themed swords, with a normal-looking shop flow: a Shop link, "Shop Now!" buttons, a cart, and "Add to cart" controls. The technical side is unremarkable — a valid encrypted connection and no the browser threat feed warning — but the operator side is not. Independent research classifies the site as a "Suspicious Shop" with a low 2.4/5 user rating from 10 reviews, one review states flatly that it is a scam, and a review-monitoring service notes the site uses a review tool the owner can edit, hide or reorder. The site also publishes no postal address, so there is no verifiable physical business behind the storefront. That combination — a real-looking shop with adverse external warnings and no accountable operator — places it in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community