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Is eastendfoods.co.uk legit or a scam?
Official site of East End Foods, a real UK food ingredients company founded in 1972 with active registration since 1968.
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 page content matches a legitimate food brand selling spices, rice, and recipes with no login forms or scam tactics. Company records confirm EAST END FOODS LIMITED has been registered in the UK since 1968 and remains active. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research. The domain shows valid SSL and a clean hosting IP with zero abuse reports. Three antivirus detections exist but are outweighed by the clear business evidence and lack of any consumer warnings.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for eastendfoods.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain eastendfoods.co.uk is the official website for East End Foods, a UK supplier of Indian/Asian food ingredients (spices, pulses, rice etc.) founded in 1972 by Wouhra Brothers, now part of Vibrant Foods Group.
- Company registered at Companies House as EAST END FOODS LIMITED (00938359), status Active, incorporated 5 Sep 1968.
- Wikipedia and company profiles confirm ownership history including sale to Exponent Private Equity in 2019 and integration into Vibrant Foods.
- LinkedIn, Facebook, Crunchbase and other business directories list the company with matching website eastendfoods.co.uk and positive descriptions of 40+ years in UK Indian food market.
- No scam, fraud or complaint reports found in web searches including Reddit; mentions are neutral or reference legitimate product purchases.
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of major brands; domain aligns exactly with the real company's branding.
EAST END FOODS LIMITED, company number 00938359, incorporated 5 September 1968, registered office Building 3 Croxley Park, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, WD18 8YG; SIC 99999 - Dormant Company
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://eastendfoods.co.uk/
- 2200https://eastendfoods.co.uk/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
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.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with eastendfoods.co.uk
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 flags eastendfoods.co.uk as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — eastendfoods.co.uk scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. eastendfoods.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged eastendfoods.co.uk as malicious or suspicious (3 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged eastendfoods.co.uk with the following threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- eastendfoods.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in GB (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
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