Is dartscornerstore.shop safe?

http://dartscornerstore.shop/

DangerousStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

dartscornerstore.shop is a brand-clone fake darts shop tied to a known scam network, not the real Darts Corner

This domain presents itself as "Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005" and offers a Shop Now button and a shopping cart, but it is not the genuine retailer. Independent research identifies it as a copy of Darts Corner's store that belongs to a known scam network, with the real shop operating at dartscorner.com. The site shows no contact email on its own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address, and the domain is only 218 days old. Three independent antivirus families also flagged it. A valid TLS certificate and a clean the browser threat feed result only mean no interception or blocklist hit at scan time; they do not make the store trustworthy. Taken together, this is a high-risk impersonation storefront.

Do not enter payment or personal details on dartscornerstore.shop. If you want darts equipment from the real retailer, go directly to dartscorner.com by typing the address yourself. If you have already ordered here, contact your card issuer promptly to dispute the charge and consider replacing the card.
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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 domain presents itself as "Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005" and offers a Shop Now button and a shopping cart, but it is not the genuine retailer. Independent research identifies it as a copy of Darts Corner's store that belongs to a known scam network, with the real shop operating at dartscorner.com. The site shows no contact email on its own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address, and the domain is only 218 days old. Three independent antivirus families also flagged it. A valid TLS certificate and a clean the browser threat feed result only mean no interception or blocklist hit at scan time; they do not make the store trustworthy. Taken together, this is a high-risk impersonation storefront.

A clone of a real darts retailer, flagged as part of a scam network

The page banner reads "Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005 | Darts Corner" while the address bar shows dartscornerstore.shop, a domain that is not the real retailer's. Research states plainly that this site copies Darts Corner's online store of darts and dart flights, that it is part of a known scam network, and that the genuine store is at dartscorner.com.

The same research warns that stores of this kind are unlikely to deliver the real product and may use card details typed at checkout for other purposes. That is the core deception here: the branding and product catalogue are borrowed from a legitimate business to make an unknown operator look trustworthy.

No verifiable operator behind the storefront

The captured page lists no contact email on the site's own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address. The only email domain seen in the page context is dartscorner.com, the real brand's domain, which reinforces that this storefront is borrowing another company's identity rather than presenting its own.

The registrable domain is 218 days old, so there is no long trading history to offset the missing operator details. A shopper has no way to identify who is actually running this store or where to turn if an order never arrives.

Clean technical checks do not clear the operator

The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those results mean the connection was not intercepted and the domain was not on that blocklist at scan time; they say nothing about whether the shop is honest.

Against that, three independent antivirus families reported an adverse result for this domain, naming G-Data, LevelBlue and Netcraft. The detection is saved rather than freshly submitted, so its timing should be confirmed, but it is a real adverse signal that aligns with the research finding of a brand-clone scam store.

Why the score is 18

One public warning on a public review site: "This site copies Darts Corner's online store of darts and dart flights, but it's part of a known scam network, and the real Darts Corner store is at…". 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

5/ 93

detections

Saved analysis from October 18, 2026 - stale

5 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
3
Suspicious
2
Total
93
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
G-DataMaliciousmalware
LevelBlueMaliciousphishing
NetcraftMaliciousmalicious
alphaMountain.aiSuspicioussuspicious
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 93 engine results
  • G-Data - malware - Malicious
  • LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
  • Netcraft - Malicious
  • alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
  • Gridinsoft - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - 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
  • 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
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - 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
dartscornerstore.shop
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005 | Darts Corner

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005 | Darts Corner

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

    Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005 | Darts Corner

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 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

Fake Shop & Commercial Deception

Also observed: Phishing & Impersonation

Service and business model

Shop

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01One public warning on a public review site: "This site copies Darts Corner's online store of darts and dart flights, but it's part of a known scam network, and the real Darts Corner store is at…"
  2. 023 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
  3. 03The captured page shows no contact email on the site's own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address.

What this means for you

What happens if you shop here

A visitor arriving on this page sees a "Shop Now" button and a "Cart (0)" control, the normal entry points into an e-commerce checkout. Following that path leads to entering personal and payment details with an operator that research links to a known scam network.

How the observed mechanism works

The evidence-backed path

Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.

  1. According to the research, stores of this type are unlikely to deliver the real product and may use card details typed at checkout for other purposes. The realistic outcomes for a buyer are paying for goods that never arrive and exposing card information to unknown parties.

Do not enter payment or personal details on dartscornerstore.shop. If you want darts equipment from the real retailer, go directly to dartscorner.com by typing the address yourself. If you have already ordered here, contact your card issuer promptly to dispute the charge and consider replacing the card.

Fake Shop & Commercial DeceptionConfidence: High

Grounded in 3 saved evidence references.

Web research findings

Independent findings for dartscornerstore.shop, 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.
  • Is dartscorneronline.shop a scam? Fake Darts Corner storeopen

    "This site copies Darts Corner's online store of darts and dart flights, but it's part of a known scam network, and the real Darts Corner store is at dartscorner.com. Stores like this are unlikely to deliver the real product, and may use card details typed at checkout for nefarious purposes."

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. Domaindartscornerstore.shop
  2. Redirects todartscornerstore.shop
  3. Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
  4. Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 16, 2026
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 months old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 20, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Dangerous

    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.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email uses the site's own domain.
  • No phone number listed on the captured page.
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age7 months old
RegistrarSpaceship, Inc.
RegisteredMar 16, 2026
ExpiresMar 16, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresDec 19, 2026 (59d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
Server locationUS

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

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

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. 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: "This site copies Darts Corner's online store of darts and dart flights, but it's part of a known scam network, and the real Darts Corner store is at…" · The page presents a "Shop Now" button and a "Cart (0)" control, the standard commercial entry points of an online store.

Source coverage and freshness

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

Antivirus
Result5 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 18, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
Independent research
Result1 independent finding was saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Avoid this site

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Do not enter payment or personal details on dartscornerstore.shop. If you want darts equipment from the real retailer, go directly to dartscorner.com by typing the address yourself. If you have already ordered here, contact your card issuer promptly to dispute the charge and consider replacing the card.

  2. Do not interact with dartscornerstore.shop

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  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.

    Open

Safer Alternatives

Trying to shop safely? Use a safe option instead

Shopping for a deal? Stick to established retailers with real buyer protection — if a price looks too good to be true on an unknown store, it usually is.

  1. Amazon

    A-to-z Guarantee covers eligible orders.

  2. eBay

    Money Back Guarantee on most purchases.

  3. Walmart

    Major retailer with established returns.

  4. The brand's official site

    Search the brand name + "official site" rather than trusting an ad or unknown store.

Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.

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 dartscornerstore.shop a scam or a legit online store?
dartscornerstore.shop is a high-risk fake shop — we recommend against paying or entering card details. Our review tagged it for fake shop and clone site. 5 of 93 security engines flag it (3 as outright malicious). The domain is 7 months old through Spaceship, Inc. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
Is dartscornerstore.shop safe to use?
No — dartscornerstore.shop has a Safety Score of 18/100 (Dangerous) because decisive threat evidence was saved with this scan. Leave the site and do not log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
What should I do if I already gave my details to dartscornerstore.shop?
If you've already paid or handed over details on dartscornerstore.shop, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on dartscornerstore.shop and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
Can I get my money back from dartscornerstore.shop?
Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
I ordered from dartscornerstore.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
That's the classic pattern of a fake or non-delivery shop. These sites take payment for products that never ship, or send cheap counterfeits, then go quiet and eventually disappear. If you paid by card, contact your bank about a chargeback for "goods not received." Keep your order confirmation and any messages, don't pay extra "customs" or "release" fees they may demand, and report the store so others are warned.
How do I report dartscornerstore.shop?
You can report dartscornerstore.shop through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
Why does dartscornerstore.shop look legitimate if it's a scam?
Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
Has dartscornerstore.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 5 of 93 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged dartscornerstore.shop, 3 of them as outright malicious in the saved analysis from October 18, 2026. None of these detections came from the engines we treat as highest-confidence, so they are weighed alongside the other checks rather than on their own.
Is dartscornerstore.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — dartscornerstore.shop 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 dartscornerstore.shop domain?
dartscornerstore.shop is 7 months old, registered on March 16, 2026 through Spaceship, Inc. A registration history of under two years is neither a strong positive nor a strong negative signal on its own.
Where is dartscornerstore.shop hosted?
dartscornerstore.shop resolves to an IP operated by Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 dartscornerstore.shop report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 20, 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 dartscornerstore.shop 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
18/100
Dangerous

dartscornerstore.shop is a brand-clone fake darts shop tied to a known scam network, not the real Darts Corner

Saved capturedartscornerstore.shopCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

This domain presents itself as "Darts Corner - The UK's #1 online darts shop since 2005" and offers a Shop Now button and a shopping cart, but it is not the genuine retailer. Independent research identifies it as a copy of Darts Corner's store that belongs to a known scam network, with the real shop operating at dartscorner.com. The site shows no contact email on its own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address, and the domain is only 218 days old. Three independent antivirus families also flagged it. A valid TLS certificate and a clean the browser threat feed result only mean no interception or blocklist hit at scan time; they do not make the store trustworthy. Taken together, this is a high-risk impersonation storefront.

Recommended actionDo not enter payment or personal details on dartscornerstore.shop. If you want darts equipment from the real retailer, go directly to dartscorner.com by typing the address yourself. If you have already ordered here, contact your card issuer promptly to dispute the charge and consider replacing the card.
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