Is forteps.com safe?
http://forteps.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 66 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Forteps appears to be a functioning online shop, but its customer-contact setup warrants caution
Forteps offers physical-product categories and a payment page. Its pages name Shanghai Damei E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and publish a Shanghai address and telephone number, while the established domain and clean technical checks provide some reassurance. However, customer support relies on an Outlook address rather than the store’s own domain, and the supplied evidence does not independently verify the operator or establish a strong customer reputation. A Low Risk score is appropriate, but buyers should still verify the seller before paying.
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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 74/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateCustomer contact is handled through an Outlook inbox rather than an address on the store’s domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site publishes a company name, postal address and telephone number.
- SupportsThe observed domain-age record indicates that the domain is long-standing.
- SupportsSaved checks found valid encryption, no browsing threat warning and a hosting abuse confidence score of 0/100.
- SupportsPhone number listed (+86-15728987602).
- SupportsPostal address visible on the page.
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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Forteps offers physical-product categories and a payment page. Its pages name Shanghai Damei E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and publish a Shanghai address and telephone number, while the established domain and clean technical checks provide some reassurance. However, customer support relies on an Outlook address rather than the store’s own domain, and the supplied evidence does not independently verify the operator or establish a strong customer reputation. A Low Risk score is appropriate, but buyers should still verify the seller before paying.
The store provides identifiable contact details
The site identifies the business as Shanghai Damei E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and displays a Shanghai postal address, a Chinese telephone number and stated customer-service hours. These details give customers contact points, although the evidence does not independently validate them.
The storefront includes “Shop Bowl” and “Shop Pallet” links, plus same-site payment and order-query pages, indicating a conventional transaction-based shopping flow.
Technical checks are clean, but seller assurance remains limited
The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection, no browsing threat warning and no meaningful abuse score for the hosting address. These findings reduce immediate technical concern, but they do not establish that purchases or customer service will be satisfactory.
The principal concern is that the shop uses forteps1@outlook.com instead of an address on forteps.com. That is weaker business-email hygiene for a store accepting orders, though it does not by itself prove fraud.
The domain has been in existence for thousands of days, which is more reassuring than a newly created storefront, but age alone does not verify the current operator or its fulfillment record.
Why the score is 74
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 66
No detectionsSaved analysis from December 16, 2018 - stale
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 9 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 66
All 66 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- C-SIRT - Clean
- Certly - Clean
- CLEAN MX - Clean
- Comodo Site Inspector - Clean
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Malc0de Database - Clean
- Malekal - Clean
- Malware Domain Blocklist - Clean
- Malwarebytes hpHosts - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Opera - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Sophos - Unrated
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderbusiness
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekeruncategorized
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
FORTEPS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
FORTEPS
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
forteps
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
forteps
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Customer contact is handled through an Outlook inbox rather than an address on the store’s domain.
- 02The observed domain-age record indicates that the domain is long-standing.
- 03Saved checks found valid encryption, no browsing threat warning and a hosting abuse confidence score of 0/100.
Web research findings
Independent findings for forteps.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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for forteps.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainforteps.com
- Redirects towww.forteps.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesimg.staticdj.com · static.staticdj.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 24, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
forteps.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (outlook.com).
- Phone number listed (+86-15728987602).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.forteps.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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://forteps.com/
- 2301https://forteps.com/
- 3200https://www.forteps.com/
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.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Customer contact is handled through an Outlook inbox rather than an address on the store’s domain.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 66 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Dec 16, 2018 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 10, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 66 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Dec 16, 2018
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 10, 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 forteps.com a scam or is it safe?
Is forteps.com safe to use?
Has forteps.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is forteps.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Forteps appears to be a functioning online shop, but its customer-contact setup warrants caution
Forteps offers physical-product categories and a payment page. Its pages name Shanghai Damei E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and publish a Shanghai address and telephone number, while the established domain and clean technical checks provide some reassurance. However, customer support relies on an Outlook address rather than the store’s own domain, and the supplied evidence does not independently verify the operator or establish a strong customer reputation. A Low Risk score is appropriate, but buyers should still verify the seller before paying.
09 · Community
Community
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