Is berkey-waterfilters.co.uk safe?

http://berkey-waterfilters.co.uk/

Low RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete6 of 6 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Long-running UK Berkey filter shop with clean security checks and one strict refund clause

This is an online shop selling Berkey water filters to UK customers. The domain is over 12 years old, the site names a UK limited company with a company number and VAT number, and it lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. No security engine flagged the site, and the browser threat feed gave no warning. The score stays in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons: the company details are the site's own claims and have not been independently verified, the refund terms allow a partial refund of up to 80% for returned items, and the only phone number listed is a French one.

This appears to be a reasonable place to buy Berkey filters. Before ordering, read the returns terms, since a returned item judged damaged or incomplete may be refunded at up to 80% only, and pay by card so you have chargeback protection if anything goes wrong.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

This is an online shop selling Berkey water filters to UK customers. The domain is over 12 years old, the site names a UK limited company with a company number and VAT number, and it lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. No security engine flagged the site, and the browser threat feed gave no warning. The score stays in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons: the company details are the site's own claims and have not been independently verified, the refund terms allow a partial refund of up to 80% for returned items, and the only phone number listed is a French one.

What supports and what tempers trust

The domain has been registered for about 4,600 days. The site gives UK company number 09184891 and VAT number GB195468263, and a contact email at its own domain.

The refund policy says the store may issue a partial refund of up to 80% when a returned item is damaged or missing components. Fake shops use clauses like this too, but on a long-established store it reads as a strict policy rather than proof of a scam. Check its condition rules before buying.

Technical checks and how ordering works

The connection check found a valid encrypted connection, and none of 93 antivirus engines reported anything malicious or suspicious.

UK buyers order through the site's own shopping cart. Visitors from Europe are pointed to sister sites at berkey-waterfilters.eu, .fr and .de, alongside a Brexit notice for European customers.

Why the score is 80

The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 93

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
93
All 93 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - Clean
  • 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
  • Gridinsoft - 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
  • Orcapot - Unrated
  • 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

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
berkey-waterfilters.co.uk
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

BREXIT - Europe Message

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    BREXIT - Europe Message

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Berkey Waterfilters UK & EU - Lifetime Warranty - Worldwide Shipping

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Shop

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The domain has been registered for over 12 years.
  2. 02No antivirus detections and no Safe Browsing warning.
  3. 03The store's own terms limit refunds the way fake shops do (a token percentage refund, buyer-paid return shipping, or "keep the item").

Web research findings

Independent findings for berkey-waterfilters.co.uk, 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.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for berkey-waterfilters.co.uk. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainberkey-waterfilters.co.uk
  2. Redirects toberkey-waterfilters.co.uk
  3. Hosted byShopify, Inc.
  4. Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · ajax.googleapis.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 4, 2014
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 12 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 26, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Low Risk

    This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.

berkey-waterfilters.co.uk has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@berkey-waterfilters.co.uk
Phone numbers+33 1 7277 4313
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@berkey-waterfilters.co.uk).
  • Phone number listed (+33 1 7277 4313).
  • Postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 12 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age12 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC.
RegisteredMar 4, 2014
ExpiresMar 4, 2030
Owner privacyHidden
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresDec 21, 2026 (55d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingShopify, Inc.
Server locationCA
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://berkey-waterfilters.co.uk/
  • 2200https://berkey-waterfilters.co.uk/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file6
ISPShopify, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, 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").

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 26, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Verify before sensitive actions

No material threat was found, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on berkey-waterfilters.co.uk and not a lookalike like b-erkey-waterfilters.co.uk or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Verify the operator before paying or signing in

    Before a payment, login, or other sensitive step, confirm who runs the site through channels you find yourself, such as an official registry or the company's known social profiles.

  3. Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  4. Discuss this site on the forum

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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 berkey-waterfilters.co.uk a scam or is it safe?
berkey-waterfilters.co.uk has a Safety Score of 80/100 (Low Risk). The saved checks found no material threat, but the report did not meet every requirement for the highest Safe tier. Use normal caution and independently verify the operator before irreversible payments or unusually sensitive actions.
Is berkey-waterfilters.co.uk safe to use?
berkey-waterfilters.co.uk has a Safety Score of 80/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has berkey-waterfilters.co.uk been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 59 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it report berkey-waterfilters.co.uk as clean. 34 other engines had no rating for it. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is berkey-waterfilters.co.uk on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — berkey-waterfilters.co.uk 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.
How old is the berkey-waterfilters.co.uk domain?
berkey-waterfilters.co.uk is 12 years old, registered on March 4, 2014 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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.
Does berkey-waterfilters.co.uk have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — berkey-waterfilters.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 55 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is berkey-waterfilters.co.uk hosted?
berkey-waterfilters.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Shopify, Inc. in CA (Content Delivery Network). 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.
How often is the berkey-waterfilters.co.uk report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 26, 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 berkey-waterfilters.co.uk has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
80/100
Low Risk

Long-running UK Berkey filter shop with clean security checks and one strict refund clause

Saved captureberkey-waterfilters.co.ukCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

This is an online shop selling Berkey water filters to UK customers. The domain is over 12 years old, the site names a UK limited company with a company number and VAT number, and it lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. No security engine flagged the site, and the browser threat feed gave no warning. The score stays in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons: the company details are the site's own claims and have not been independently verified, the refund terms allow a partial refund of up to 80% for returned items, and the only phone number listed is a French one.

Recommended actionThis appears to be a reasonable place to buy Berkey filters. Before ordering, read the returns terms, since a returned item judged damaged or incomplete may be refunded at up to 80% only, and pay by card so you have chargeback protection if anything goes wrong.
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09 · Community

Community

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