Is britishvita.co.uk safe?
http://britishvita.co.uk/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
British Vita is a one-year-old Shopify supplement shop with hidden ownership and an independent review platform reports of paid orders that never arrived
britishvita.co.uk sells vitamins, melatonin and third-party supplement brands such as Piping Rock, Perelel and The Wellness Company through a standard Shopify cart and checkout on its own domain. Nothing malicious was found on the technical side, but the shop is only about a year old, its only contact mailbox is a free Gmail address, and independent an independent review platform's reviews describe orders that were paid for and never delivered, with support tickets left unanswered. That combination of an opaque young operator and real customer complaints puts it in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
1 year old
Registered Nov 11, 2025Expires Nov 11, 2035Certificate
Valid
Expires Dec 15, 2026 (33d)Hosting
Canada (CA)
Shopify, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
1/58
1 antivirus engine flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 12, 2026
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; 3 pushed it up.
- Start61
- -5
- -4
- Score52
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.-5 pts
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "Ordered item close to two weeks ago, item not received. Unable to contact them and no response to support ticket logged from the website."-4 pts
- Moderate1 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.
- MinorThe store's contact mailbox is a free Gmail address rather than one on its own domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain is about one year old.
- SupportsA phone number and a postal address are published on the site.
- SupportsSafe Browsing is clean, TLS is valid and the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0/100.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 61 to 52 and split those 9 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
britishvita.co.uk sells vitamins, melatonin and third-party supplement brands such as Piping Rock, Perelel and The Wellness Company through a standard Shopify cart and checkout on its own domain. Nothing malicious was found on the technical side, but the shop is only about a year old, its only contact mailbox is a free Gmail address, and independent an independent review platform's reviews describe orders that were paid for and never delivered, with support tickets left unanswered. That combination of an opaque young operator and real customer complaints puts it in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
Independent reviews describe paid orders that never arrived
An independent review platform's reviewer states that an item ordered close to two weeks earlier had not been received, that the shop could not be contacted, and that a support ticket logged through the website went unanswered. A second reviewer calls the site a scam and points to the Gmail contact address, a mobile-style phone number and the absence of any company or VAT details.
Those are customer accounts, not proof of a systematic fraud, and the shop does publish a phone number and a postal address. Still, non-delivery plus silence from support is the exact failure mode that matters most when buying supplements online, so it weighs heavily here.
A young domain with no company identity behind it
The domain is about one year old, and the only contact mailbox is britishvita.uk@gmail.com — a free-mail inbox rather than an address on the shop's own domain. No company registration or VAT number is disclosed anywhere we could see, so there is no way to check who is legally behind the store or where orders ship from.
The catalogue is resold third-party brands — Piping Rock, Perelel and The Wellness Company — sold under a British-sounding storefront name, which is a common pattern for small dropship-style resellers rather than a manufacturer. The shop also runs its own affiliate recruitment program, so some of the traffic and praise reaching it may be commission-driven.
No malware or phishing signal, and the purchase path stays on-site
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the encrypted connection is valid, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across eight saved reports. One saved antivirus engine marked the URL as suspicious, but that observation is stale and the remaining engines returned harmless, so it is not a current malware finding.
The commercial flow is ordinary: 'SHOP NOW' and category links lead to on-site collections, the cart is on britishvita.co.uk, and account and order-tracking links go to Shopify's own customer-account pages. No cross-domain payment redirect or hidden subscription mechanic was observed, which is why the score sits in the middle rather than lower.
Why the score is 52
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 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
- 93
- Suspicious1
- Clean57
- Undetected35
| 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 - Unrated
- 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
- 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
- BitDefenderpharmacy
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- 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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a green leaf-in-shield logo with the wordmark 'BRITISH VITA' on a white bar, alongside search, account, wishlist and cart icons. Announcement bar reads 'Free Shipping Across United Kingdom'; hero headline 'START YOUR DAY THE BRITISH VITA WAY!' with a dark 'SHOP NOW' button over a strawberry photo. Three benefit tiles: 'Free Shipping Across United Kingdom', 'Fast Delivery & Easy Returns' and 'Comprehensive FAQ & Support', each with a 'Discover More' link.
What the captured page showed
3 observations- 01
Header shows a green leaf-in-shield logo with the wordmark 'BRITISH VITA' on a white bar, alongside search, account, wishlist and cart icons.
- 02
Announcement bar reads 'Free Shipping Across United Kingdom'; hero headline 'START YOUR DAY THE BRITISH VITA WAY!' with a dark 'SHOP NOW' button over a strawberry photo.
- 03
Three benefit tiles: 'Free Shipping Across United Kingdom', 'Fast Delivery & Easy Returns' and 'Comprehensive FAQ & Support', each with a 'Discover More' link.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 15
Where the page went
- First loadbritishvita.co.ukSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
British Vita | Premium Vitamins, Natural Supplements & Melatonin in UK
- Meta description
British Vita offers premium vitamins & minerals, natural supplements and science-backed nutrients to support energy & immunity. Explore multivitamins, amino acid supplements, herbal supplements, sleep supplements and melatonin, all delivered with eco-friendly packaging and free shipping across the U
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-us-british-vita-who-we-are-what-we-stand-forRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-us-british-vita-customer-support-assistanceRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
British Vita | Premium Vitamins, Natural Supplements & Melatonin in UK
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 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
Supplement
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
Web research findings
Independent findings for britishvita.co.uk, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustpilot (NL)open
"Ordered item close to two weeks ago, item not received. Unable to contact them and no response to support ticket logged from the website."
- Trustpilot (NL)open
"This is a scam site. Number one is using a Gmail address instead of an official company domain, number to the company contact telephone number is a mobile number three companies house has no use of information it's all hidden no directors. No VAT number."
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainbritishvita.co.uk
- Redirects tobritishvita.co.uk
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · shop.appand 6 more
Domain Timeline
- Nov 11, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1 year old when this review was saved.
- Nov 12, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks 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 contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
- Phone number listed (+447482796961).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 10% of the registration period had passed
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 63% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for britishvita.co.uk.
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
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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://britishvita.co.uk/
- 2200https://britishvita.co.uk/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Advertising1
- bat.bing.comcontacted
Analytics & tracking5
- connect.facebook.netcontacted
- ct.pinterest.comcontacted
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comcontacted
- static-tracking.klaviyo.comcontacted
Payments1
- shop.appin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts7
- ajax.googleapis.comcontacted
- cdn.jsdelivr.netcontacted
- cdn.shopify.comin pagecontacted
- cdnjs.cloudflare.comcontacted
- d1639lhkj5l89m.cloudfront.netcontacted
- monorail-edge.shopifysvc.comin page
- otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
Chat & reviews5
- api.judge.mein page
- cdn.judge.mein page
- cdn1.judge.mein page
- judge.mein page
- static.klaviyo.comin pagecontacted
Other / unknown1
- subscription-admin.appstle.comcontacted
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.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
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 | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 3 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result3 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is britishvita.co.uk a scam or is it safe?
Is britishvita.co.uk safe to use?
Has britishvita.co.uk been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is britishvita.co.uk on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the britishvita.co.uk domain?
Does britishvita.co.uk have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is britishvita.co.uk hosted?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
British Vita is a one-year-old Shopify supplement shop with hidden ownership and an independent review platform reports of paid orders that never arrived
britishvita.co.uk sells vitamins, melatonin and third-party supplement brands such as Piping Rock, Perelel and The Wellness Company through a standard Shopify cart and checkout on its own domain. Nothing malicious was found on the technical side, but the shop is only about a year old, its only contact mailbox is a free Gmail address, and independent an independent review platform's reviews describe orders that were paid for and never delivered, with support tickets left unanswered. That combination of an opaque young operator and real customer complaints puts it in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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