Is auwineshop.com safe?
http://auwineshop.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
A four-month-old discount liquor storefront with no disclosed legal operator, a discretionary refund clause and adverse third-party flags
auwineshop.com presents itself as "AuWineshop | Premium Australian Fine Wine Merchant", selling wine, beer and spirits at deep discounts ("-70%" and "-75%" badges) with free shipping over $50 and a same-site cart and checkout. The technical picture is mixed: the connection is properly encrypted and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but a saved antivirus observation records three engines flagging the domain and a third-party review source reports a harmful-site flag. The operator side is thin — the domain is only 139 days old, no phone number is published, and the store's own terms let it issue a partial refund or refuse one outright. That combination of unproven trading history, weak disclosed identity and buyer-unfriendly refund wording puts the site in the moderate-risk band rather than the safe one.
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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.
Why 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.-4 pts
- ModerateThe store's own terms limit refunds the way fake shops do (a token percentage refund, buyer-paid return shipping, or "keep the item").-3 pts
- ModerateOne public warning in public web research: "Bfore.ai has flagged this website as harmful"-3 pts
- MinorNo phone number is listed on the captured page, leaving only an address and a domain email as contact routes.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe site publishes an email on its own domain and a visible postal address in Melbourne.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 62 to 52 and split those 10 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
auwineshop.com presents itself as "AuWineshop | Premium Australian Fine Wine Merchant", selling wine, beer and spirits at deep discounts ("-70%" and "-75%" badges) with free shipping over $50 and a same-site cart and checkout. The technical picture is mixed: the connection is properly encrypted and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but a saved antivirus observation records three engines flagging the domain and a third-party review source reports a harmful-site flag. The operator side is thin — the domain is only 139 days old, no phone number is published, and the store's own terms let it issue a partial refund or refuse one outright. That combination of unproven trading history, weak disclosed identity and buyer-unfriendly refund wording puts the site in the moderate-risk band rather than the safe one.
Thin operator identity and refund terms that favour the seller
The storefront publishes a Melbourne address (345 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia) and an email on its own domain, which is more than many throwaway shops offer. But no phone number appears on the captured page, and the registrable domain is only 139 days old, so the "Trusted Dealer" wording on the site has almost no operating history behind it.
The site's own return terms state that if a returned item is damaged or used, "we may issue a partial refund or deny the refund". That is a discretionary clause that leaves the buyer's money at the seller's judgement, and it is the kind of wording that makes recovering payment after a problem harder.
The merchandising adds to the caution: product tiles carry "-70%" and "-75%" discount badges on beer, wine and spirits, and the hero banner shows Japanese sake bottles while the site brands itself as an Australian fine-wine merchant. Deep discounts on branded alcohol from a very new, thinly identified seller are a common pattern in storefronts that take payment without a proven delivery record.
Mixed technical and reputation signals
On the protective side, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and a third-party review source notes a valid certificate and a safe rating from a DNS filtering service. No malware, phishing page or credential-harvesting behaviour was observed on the pages we reviewed.
Against that, a saved antivirus observation records three independent engine families returning an adverse result for the domain, and a review source reports that Bfore.ai has flagged the site as harmful. Those results come from saved observations rather than a fresh submission, so they should be treated as a real caution rather than a confirmed live infection — but they are not neutral either.
The same review source gives the domain an average trust score and notes that the domain name was only registered recently, which matches what we observed directly. The hosting address carries 25 saved abuse reports but an abuse confidence score of 0, so the infrastructure itself is not a strong indicator either way.
Why the score is 52
3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from August 19, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 3
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
All 92 engine results
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- 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
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - 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
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googleshopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
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
Header shows a wine-bottle logo with the wordmark "AUWINESHOP" and a top banner reading "FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $50". Menu categories: Shop, Hot Sale, Red Wine, Craft Beer, White Wine, Scottish Whisky, Beer, Spirits, plus search, account and cart icons with a cart badge of 0. Hero banner shows three Japanese sake bottles on wooden boards against a dark wood backdrop, despite the site branding itself as an Australian fine wine merchant. Product tiles below the hero carry blue discount badges reading "-70%", "-70%", "-70%" and "-75%" on beer, wine and spirits items.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a wine-bottle logo with the wordmark "AUWINESHOP" and a top banner reading "FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $50".
- 02
Menu categories: Shop, Hot Sale, Red Wine, Craft Beer, White Wine, Scottish Whisky, Beer, Spirits, plus search, account and cart icons with a cart badge of 0.
- 03
Hero banner shows three Japanese sake bottles on wooden boards against a dark wood backdrop, despite the site branding itself as an Australian fine wine merchant.
- 04
Product tiles below the hero carry blue discount badges reading "-70%", "-70%", "-70%" and "-75%" on beer, wine and spirits items.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Home - AuWineshop | Premium Australian Fine Wine Merchant
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Terms/terms-conditions/Read
- Refund / returns policy/return-shipping/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - AuWineshop | Premium Australian Fine Wine Merchant
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
- 01The store's own terms limit refunds the way fake shops do (a token percentage refund, buyer-paid return shipping, or "keep the item").
- 023 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 03One public warning in public web research: "Bfore.ai has flagged this website as harmful"
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you shop here
A visitor browses the catalogue, adds an item with the "Add to cart" control and completes the purchase in the site's own shopping cart. All commercial links we captured stay on auwineshop.com — there is no cross-domain order path, affiliate redirect or third-party payment host in the link graph.
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.
Once payment is made, the buyer's protection depends on the seller's own terms, and those terms allow a partial refund or a refusal if the returned item is judged damaged or used. Combined with a 139-day-old domain and no published phone number, a buyer who needs to chase an order or a refund has limited recourse.
Treat this as a shop to approach with caution rather than a confirmed fraud. If you want to buy, use a payment method with chargeback protection such as a credit card or PayPal rather than a bank transfer, keep the order confirmation, and be aware that the site's own terms let it reduce or refuse a refund. Given the young domain, the missing phone contact and the adverse third-party flags, buying alcohol elsewhere from an established, licensed retailer is the safer choice.
Web research findings
Independent findings for auwineshop.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.
- ScamAdviseropen
"Bfore.ai has flagged this website as harmful"
- ScamAdviseropen
"According to the SSL check the certificate is valid DNSFilter considers this website safe"
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.
- Domainauwineshop.com
- Redirects towww.auwineshop.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · gmpg.org
Domain Timeline
- Jun 18, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
auwineshop.com was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (sales@auwineshop.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for auwineshop.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://auwineshop.com/
- 2301https://auwineshop.com/
- 3200https://www.auwineshop.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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. 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.
The store's own terms limit refunds the way fake shops do (a token percentage refund, buyer-paid return shipping, or "keep the item"). · One public warning in public web research: "Bfore.ai has flagged this website as harmful"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Aug 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Aug 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 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 auwineshop.com a scam or is it safe?
Is auwineshop.com safe to use?
Has auwineshop.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is auwineshop.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the auwineshop.com domain?
Does auwineshop.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is auwineshop.com hosted?
How often is the auwineshop.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
A four-month-old discount liquor storefront with no disclosed legal operator, a discretionary refund clause and adverse third-party flags
auwineshop.com presents itself as "AuWineshop | Premium Australian Fine Wine Merchant", selling wine, beer and spirits at deep discounts ("-70%" and "-75%" badges) with free shipping over $50 and a same-site cart and checkout. The technical picture is mixed: the connection is properly encrypted and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but a saved antivirus observation records three engines flagging the domain and a third-party review source reports a harmful-site flag. The operator side is thin — the domain is only 139 days old, no phone number is published, and the store's own terms let it issue a partial refund or refuse one outright. That combination of unproven trading history, weak disclosed identity and buyer-unfriendly refund wording puts the site in the moderate-risk band rather than the safe one.
09 · Community
Community
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