Is china-cart.com safe?

http://china-cart.com/

Moderate RiskStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

China-Cart is an established online shop, but caution is warranted

China-Cart sells traditional clothing, costumes and crafts through a same-site shopping cart and checkout. Its long-standing domain, own-domain email, listed phone number and clean current browser-security check are reassuring, but an external warning, the absence of a visible postal address and a historical suspicious detection prevent a low-risk rating.

Treat the store as moderate risk. If purchasing, verify the business and return details independently, use a payment method with chargeback protection, and avoid a large first order.
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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

China-Cart sells traditional clothing, costumes and crafts through a same-site shopping cart and checkout. Its long-standing domain, own-domain email, listed phone number and clean current browser-security check are reassuring, but an external warning, the absence of a visible postal address and a historical suspicious detection prevent a low-risk rating.

A functioning, long-established retail storefront

The domain has existed for more than 20 years, and the captured storefront lists categories such as Hanfu, dance props and palace lanterns. Products can be added to a cart and the checkout remains on china-cart.com; no cross-domain commercial destination was observed in the supplied evidence.

The shop publishes an email address on its own domain and a phone number, although the captured page did not show an operator postal address. Its generic service@ mailbox is also a pattern seen across some questionable shop networks, but that fact alone does not establish fraud.

Technical checks are mostly clean, while merchant trust remains uncertain

The current checks found no browser threat warning and confirmed an encrypted connection. A saved, older antivirus observation nevertheless recorded one suspicious result, which is a limited warning rather than proof of an active technical threat.

An external website assessment warns that the store may be a scam and advises extreme caution. That warning, combined with the lack of a visible postal address, creates meaningful merchant risk, but the supplied evidence does not establish non-delivery, payment theft or a fake-shop operation.

Why the score is 58

One public warning on a public review site: "we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when using this website.". 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

1/ 92

detections

Saved 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
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 92 engine results
  • Gridinsoft - Suspicious
  • 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
  • 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

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
china-cart.com
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

23 Years #1 in Chinese & Asian Traditional Costumes and Crafts

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    23 Years #1 in Chinese & Asian Traditional Costumes and Crafts

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

    China-Cart | Traditional Lion Dance, Hanfu, Kung Fu & Cultural Costumes

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. 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

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Shop

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The registrable domain is more than 20 years old.
  2. 02One public warning on a public review site: "we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when using this website."
  3. 03No operator postal address was visible on the captured page.

Web research findings

Independent findings for china-cart.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.

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
1 complaint or warning
Complaints and warnings (1)
Direct quotes from public complaints, negative reviews, warnings and security listings.
  • Scamadviseropen

    "we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when using this website."

Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
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. Domainchina-cart.com
  2. Redirects towww.china-cart.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · fonts.googleapis.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Nov 15, 2005
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 13, 2026
    Saved 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.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainservice@china-cart.com
Phone numbers(888) 824-6687
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
One contact red flag
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (service@china-cart.com).
  • Phone number listed ((888) 824-6687).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age20 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredNov 15, 2005
ExpiresNov 15, 2030
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresNov 23, 2026 (41d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://china-cart.com/
  • 2301https://china-cart.com/
  • 3206https://www.china-cart.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, 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. Antiviruspartial
  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.

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

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

One public warning on a public review site: "we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when using this website." · The store gives a generic service@ mailbox as its contact, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks.

Source coverage and freshness

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

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 13, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026
Independent research
Result1 independent finding was saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

The evidence is mixed or incomplete, so treat this site as unverified until you can confirm who runs it.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Treat the store as moderate risk. If purchasing, verify the business and return details independently, use a payment method with chargeback protection, and avoid a large first order.

  2. Treat china-cart.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips 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 china-cart.com a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give china-cart.com a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The domain is 20 years old. Until it can be independently verified, don't enter passwords, card details, or send money, and confirm the company through channels you find yourself rather than links on the site.
Is china-cart.com safe to use?
china-cart.com has a Safety Score of 58/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 83%. Do not trust blindly; analysis may be limited.
Has china-cart.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged china-cart.com as suspicious in the saved analysis from October 2, 2026. A single "suspicious" vote is a weak signal on its own, so it is weighed alongside the other checks rather than treated as a confirmed threat.
Is china-cart.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — china-cart.com 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 china-cart.com domain?
china-cart.com is 20 years old, registered on November 15, 2005 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 china-cart.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — china-cart.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 41 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 china-cart.com hosted?
china-cart.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (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.
Is china-cart.com a well-known website?
Yes — china-cart.com ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
How often is the china-cart.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 13, 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 china-cart.com 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
58/100
Moderate Risk

China-Cart is an established online shop, but caution is warranted

Saved capturechina-cart.comCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

China-Cart sells traditional clothing, costumes and crafts through a same-site shopping cart and checkout. Its long-standing domain, own-domain email, listed phone number and clean current browser-security check are reassuring, but an external warning, the absence of a visible postal address and a historical suspicious detection prevent a low-risk rating.

Recommended actionTreat the store as moderate risk. If purchasing, verify the business and return details independently, use a payment method with chargeback protection, and avoid a large first order.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.