Shop shows non-delivery red flags
Domain was registered only 8 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. Several red flags typical of non-delivery shops are present. Don't pay by crypto or wire, and keep the chargeback window in mind.
Is cottonlinenfairy.com legit or a scam?
Brand-new 8-day-old clothing e-commerce site flagged malicious by Netcraft and spam by Fortinet, with assets from external podann.com domains.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a professional clothing store with promotions like free shipping. However, its domain is only 8 days old, a common trait of fake shops. Netcraft flagged it malicious and Fortinet as spam, despite clean browser blocklists. It loads images and assets from podann.com, an external domain not matching the site's branding. No contact email or address appears, further eroding trust. These signals outweigh the clean visual layout.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Professional e-commerce homepage for 'Cotton Linen Fairy' clothing with high-quality images, standard promotions like free shipping and first-order discount, and clean layout. No scam patterns or clones detected.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cottonlinenfairy.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No scam reports or trust indicators found.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (44040 95.17).
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Domain is 8 days old — very young for a shop.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Domain is 8 days old — very young for a shop.
Fake-shop warning signs
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Treat cottonlinenfairy.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked cottonlinenfairy.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- cottonlinenfairy.com currently scores 30/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. cottonlinenfairy.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cottonlinenfairy.com is 8 days old, registered on 4/13/2026 through Cloud Yuqu LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged cottonlinenfairy.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. cottonlinenfairy.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cottonlinenfairy.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
Final Verdict
This is a newly created online clothing store called Cotton Linen Fairy. Our malware engines flagged it as malicious and spam, combined with its 8-day age raising red flags for fake shops. Avoid shopping here and stick to established retailers.
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