Is ebdesign.store safe?
http://ebdesign.store/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
EBDESIGN Store: vape shop flagged for non-delivery and counterfeit reports, with hidden ownership
EBDESIGN Store is an online shop selling disposable vapes and bundles, with a checkout flow and an age-verification gate. Independent security analysis describes it as exhibiting characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations, and customer reports cited in that analysis describe payments being processed without products arriving and receipt of imitations that do not match product descriptions. The site's owner is reported to be hiding their identity on WHOIS through a paid service. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, and a domain over three years old — but these only show the site is not currently flagged for malware or interception; they do not establish that orders are fulfilled or that the operator is accountable. The combination of adverse customer reports, hidden ownership, and a return policy with a 15% restocking fee and customer-paid return shipping places this in the High Risk band.
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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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateA supplement is promoted with an implausible medical or rapid-result claim.
- ModerateOne public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Ebdesign.store exhibits characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations. The site appears to accept payments while customer reports suggest…"
- 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 website's owner is reported to be hiding their identity on WHOIS using a paid service.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed on the reviewed pages.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning, TLS is valid, and the registrable domain is 1303 days old.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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- Report the site
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
EBDESIGN Store is an online shop selling disposable vapes and bundles, with a checkout flow and an age-verification gate. Independent security analysis describes it as exhibiting characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations, and customer reports cited in that analysis describe payments being processed without products arriving and receipt of imitations that do not match product descriptions. The site's owner is reported to be hiding their identity on WHOIS through a paid service. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, and a domain over three years old — but these only show the site is not currently flagged for malware or interception; they do not establish that orders are fulfilled or that the operator is accountable. The combination of adverse customer reports, hidden ownership, and a return policy with a 15% restocking fee and customer-paid return shipping places this in the High Risk band.
What the adverse evidence shows
Independent security analysis states that ebdesign.store exhibits characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations, and that the site appears to accept payments while customer reports suggest data collection issues. The same analysis cites customer reports describing two concrete problems: payments processed with no product arriving, and receipt of counterfeit products that do not match the product descriptions. These are adverse external claims, not directory listings.
Separately, a registration-related finding states that the website's owner is hiding their identity on WHOIS using a paid service. That is a record about ownership disclosure rather than a customer complaint, but it compounds the difficulty of holding the operator accountable if an order goes wrong.
The site's own pages also carry a supplement-style claim with FDA disclaimer language, which is a template pattern more commonly seen on supplement funnels than on a vape store. This is a structural oddity rather than proof of non-delivery, but it is consistent with a storefront assembled from generic templates.
Technical checks are clean; operator risk is not
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the registrable domain is 1303 days old. These are supportive technical signals: the site is not currently flagged for malware or interception, and the domain is not brand new. They do not, however, speak to whether orders are fulfilled or whether the operator is accountable.
One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, from a saved observation rather than a new submission, so the detection should be treated as real but with timing uncertainty. This is a technical flag, not proof of fraud, but it aligns with the adverse customer reports.
The captured page shows no operator postal address visible, and the operator is not disclosed on the reviewed pages. Combined with the WHOIS privacy finding, a buyer has no verified physical point of contact if a dispute arises.
Why the score is 38
A supplement is promoted with an implausible medical or rapid-result claim. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 92
detectionsSaved 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
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 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 - 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleretail
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
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Visual context from the captured page
Are you 21 or older? You must be 21 years of age or older to enter this website.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Are you 21 or older? You must be 21 years of age or older to enter this website.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
EBDESIGN Store | Official Online Disposable Vapes Shop
- Meta description
The Official EBDESIGN (Formerly Elf Bar) Online Vape Store. Get FREE SHIPPING on orders over $149.99! Shop top-quality, premium disposable vapes in the USA.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/pages/terms-conditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/returns-refunds-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-ebdesign-official-storeRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
EBDESIGN Store | Official Online Disposable Vapes Shop
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Ebdesign.store exhibits characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations. The site appears to accept payments while customer reports suggest…"
- 02The website's owner is reported to be hiding their identity on WHOIS using a paid service.
- 031 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.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually does here
A visitor lands on the storefront, passes an age-verification modal confirming they are 21 or older, and is presented with product listings such as the EBDESIGN BC5000 Disposable Vape and a 'SHOP BUNDLES' call to action. The commercial path is a direct purchase on the same site.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The checkout and post-purchase flow routes through third-party claims and terms pages at claims.route.com and route.com. These are cross-site commercial links, not same-site pages, so order support and claims handling sit outside the store's own domain.
Once payment is made, the adverse reports describe the outcome a buyer may face: payment processed with no product arriving, or receipt of an imitation that does not match the description. The return policy's 15% restocking fee and customer-paid return shipping further raise the cost of disputing an order.
Do not place an order on ebdesign.store. The site has adverse customer reports describing non-delivery and counterfeit goods, its ownership is hidden behind a WHOIS privacy service, and its return terms include a 15% restocking fee plus customer-paid return shipping. If you have already paid, contact your card issuer or payment provider promptly to dispute the charge, and avoid providing further personal or payment data to the site.
Risk pattern correlation
Web research findings
Independent findings for ebdesign.store, 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.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Ebdesign.store exhibits characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations. The site appears to accept payments while customer reports suggest data collection issues."
- Gridinsoftopen
"1. No delivery: Payment processed, but no product arrives. 2. Counterfeit products: Customers report receiving imitations that do not match product descriptions."
- Scamadviseropen
"The website's owner is hiding his identity on WHOIS using a paid service"
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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainebdesign.store
- Redirects toebdesign.store
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencess3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com · cdn.agechecker.net
Domain Timeline
- Mar 24, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 18, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
ebdesign.store is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@ebdesign.store).
- Phone number listed (+17866610298).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for ebdesign.store.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
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://ebdesign.store/
- 2200https://ebdesign.store/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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.
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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
A supplement is promoted with an implausible medical or rapid-result claim. · One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Ebdesign.store exhibits characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations. The site appears to accept payments while customer reports suggest…"
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
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 ebdesign.store a scam or a legit online store?
Is ebdesign.store safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to ebdesign.store?
Can I get my money back from ebdesign.store?
I ordered from ebdesign.store but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report ebdesign.store?
Why does ebdesign.store look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has ebdesign.store been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is ebdesign.store on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the ebdesign.store domain?
Does ebdesign.store have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the ebdesign.store report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
EBDESIGN Store: vape shop flagged for non-delivery and counterfeit reports, with hidden ownership
EBDESIGN Store is an online shop selling disposable vapes and bundles, with a checkout flow and an age-verification gate. Independent security analysis describes it as exhibiting characteristics consistent with scam-like e-commerce operations, and customer reports cited in that analysis describe payments being processed without products arriving and receipt of imitations that do not match product descriptions. The site's owner is reported to be hiding their identity on WHOIS through a paid service. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, and a domain over three years old — but these only show the site is not currently flagged for malware or interception; they do not establish that orders are fulfilled or that the operator is accountable. The combination of adverse customer reports, hidden ownership, and a return policy with a 15% restocking fee and customer-paid return shipping places this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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