Is brickbears.nl safe?
http://brickbears.nl/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
BrickBears presents itself as a Dutch brick-toy shop, but its own refund terms send returns to China and offer partial refunds or store credit instead of money back.
BrickBears is a webshop selling brick-based toy sets, reachable at brickbears.nl and presented as run by 'BrickBears B.V.' at an Amsterdam address. The technical side is unremarkable: the connection is encrypted, the browser threat feed reports no warning, and only one antivirus engine out of 93 marks the URL as suspicious. The problem is the commercial setup. The store's own refund and returns text tells buyers to ship unwanted products to a warehouse in China at their own cost, and offers a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% store credit instead of a full cash refund. Those are the terms used by fake-shop operations, and they appear together on a domain that is only about a year old. The site does list a contact email on its own domain and a postal address, which is a genuine positive, but it does not outweigh the refund and returns terms. We rate this High Risk.
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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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongSeveral fake-shop tells appear together on a 380-day-old domain: returns sent to China, refund-trap terms.-6 pts
- ModerateReturns are directed to a warehouse in China with return shipping costs paid by the customer.-3 pts
- ModerateThe store's own refund policy offers a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% store credit instead of a full cash refund.-3 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.-3 pts
- MinorReturns to China and refund-trap terms appear together on a domain that is only 380 days old.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site lists a contact email on its own domain and a postal address.
- SupportsThe connection is encrypted and the browser threat feed reports no threat warning.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 53 to 38 and split those 15 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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- Call your bank or card issuer now
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- Change any password you entered
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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
BrickBears is a webshop selling brick-based toy sets, reachable at brickbears.nl and presented as run by 'BrickBears B.V.' at an Amsterdam address. The technical side is unremarkable: the connection is encrypted, the browser threat feed reports no warning, and only one antivirus engine out of 93 marks the URL as suspicious. The problem is the commercial setup. The store's own refund and returns text tells buyers to ship unwanted products to a warehouse in China at their own cost, and offers a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% store credit instead of a full cash refund. Those are the terms used by fake-shop operations, and they appear together on a domain that is only about a year old. The site does list a contact email on its own domain and a postal address, which is a genuine positive, but it does not outweigh the refund and returns terms. We rate this High Risk.
The refund terms are the strongest warning sign
The store's own refund policy does not offer a straightforward money-back option. It states that a buyer can keep the product and receive a 30% partial refund, or take an 80% refund as store credit for a future purchase. A customer who simply wants their money back is pushed toward keeping the item or accepting credit.
The same policy says a full refund requires returning the product to a designated warehouse currently located in China, with return shipping costs paid by the customer. For a shop presenting itself as a Dutch business, that is a costly and impractical return path, and it is the pattern seen in fake-shop operations.
These two facts — returns routed to China and refund-trap terms — appear together on a domain that is only 380 days old, which is the combination that defines a shell-store profile.
A Dutch identity claim, but a mixed technical picture
The site prints 'BrickBears B.V.' with an Amsterdam address and contact emails on its own domain, which is more disclosure than many fake shops provide. However, the refund policy text is inconsistent with the brand name, and the returns address points to China, so the claimed Dutch operation does not match the actual fulfilment and returns setup.
On the technical side, the connection is encrypted and the browser threat feed reports no threat warning. One antivirus engine out of 93 flags the URL as suspicious, which is a single isolated detection rather than a vendor consensus. These checks show no active malware or phishing page, but they do not make the commercial terms safe.
Why the score is 38
Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 380-day-old domain: returns sent to China, refund-trap terms. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
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
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 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 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- 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
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
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What the captured page showed
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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
BrickBears
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
BrickBears
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 380-day-old domain: returns sent to China, refund-trap terms.
- 02Returns are directed to a warehouse in China with return shipping costs paid by the customer.
- 03The store's own refund policy offers a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% store credit instead of a full cash refund.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a buyer actually faces
A visitor who orders from BrickBears and later wants to return the product is directed by the store's own policy to ship it to a warehouse in China at their own expense. That is the concrete outcome the terms describe.
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.
If the buyer instead accepts the store's alternative, the policy offers only a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% refund as store credit, not a full cash refund. The refund path is therefore limited by the store's own terms.
Do not order from BrickBears unless you are willing to accept that returns go to China at your own cost and that the store's own policy offers only a partial refund or store credit instead of a full cash refund. If you have already paid, contact your bank or card issuer about a chargeback and keep copies of the refund policy and your order confirmation.
Web research findings
Independent findings for brickbears.nl, 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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for brickbears.nl. 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.
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.
- Domainbrickbears.nl
- Redirects tobrickbears.nl
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · js.shrinetheme.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 17, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1 year old when this review was saved.
- Nov 2, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
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 (info@brickbears.nl).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for brickbears.nl.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
- Judge.me reviews
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://brickbears.nl/
- 2200https://brickbears.nl/
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
- Antiviruscomplete
- 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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 380-day-old domain: returns sent to China, refund-trap terms. · Returns are directed to a warehouse in China with return shipping costs paid by the customer.
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 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 brickbears.nl a scam or a legit online store?
Is brickbears.nl safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to brickbears.nl?
Can I get my money back from brickbears.nl?
I ordered from brickbears.nl but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report brickbears.nl?
Why does brickbears.nl look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has brickbears.nl been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is brickbears.nl on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the brickbears.nl domain?
Does brickbears.nl have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the brickbears.nl report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
BrickBears presents itself as a Dutch brick-toy shop, but its own refund terms send returns to China and offer partial refunds or store credit instead of money back.
BrickBears is a webshop selling brick-based toy sets, reachable at brickbears.nl and presented as run by 'BrickBears B.V.' at an Amsterdam address. The technical side is unremarkable: the connection is encrypted, the browser threat feed reports no warning, and only one antivirus engine out of 93 marks the URL as suspicious. The problem is the commercial setup. The store's own refund and returns text tells buyers to ship unwanted products to a warehouse in China at their own cost, and offers a 30% partial refund to keep the item or an 80% store credit instead of a full cash refund. Those are the terms used by fake-shop operations, and they appear together on a domain that is only about a year old. The site does list a contact email on its own domain and a postal address, which is a genuine positive, but it does not outweigh the refund and returns terms. We rate this High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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