Is fotocart.in safe?

http://fotocart.in/

Low RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Fotocart appears to be a retail site, but isolated security detections warrant caution

The available evidence identifies Fotocart as an astronomy and photography store. Its domain has been registered for 3,180 days, which provides some context but does not establish customer safety. The main concern is a limited security signal: 1 malicious and 1 suspicious result among 90 checks. No supplied evidence directly demonstrates phishing, malware delivery, or commercial fraud.

Proceed cautiously: keep browser protection enabled and avoid entering payment or account information if the browser or security software displays a warning. Independently verify the seller and purchase terms before ordering.
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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

The available evidence identifies Fotocart as an astronomy and photography store. Its domain has been registered for 3,180 days, which provides some context but does not establish customer safety. The main concern is a limited security signal: 1 malicious and 1 suspicious result among 90 checks. No supplied evidence directly demonstrates phishing, malware delivery, or commercial fraud.

What the evidence establishes

The captured page presents Fotocart as “India’s Best Astronomy & Photography Store,” supporting its identification as an online shop in that product category.

The registrable domain is 3,180 days old. This is a modest legitimacy signal, although age alone does not verify the operator, products, fulfillment, or payment safety.

Technical warning is limited but unresolved

Security checking produced 1 malicious and 1 suspicious detection across 90 results, with an adverse result attributed to an independent antivirus family. This is enough to justify caution, but the small minority of detections does not by itself prove an active attack.

The supplied evidence does not document malicious downloads, credential theft, deceptive checkout behavior, or non-delivery. Accordingly, the site is rated Low Risk rather than classified as a specific scam or technical threat.

Why the score is 72

1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. 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

2/ 90

detections

Fresh result

2 engines flagged this URL

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

Malicious
1
Suspicious
1
Total
90
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
KasperskyMaliciousphishing
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 90 engine results
  • Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - unrated - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

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
fotocart.in
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

FOTOCART India’s Best Astronomy & Photography Store

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    FOTOCART India’s Best Astronomy & Photography Store

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

    India’s Trusted Astronomy & Photography Store | Shop 100% genuine Astronomy & Photography gear | FOTOCART

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 90 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Shop

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Only a small minority of checks were adverse, but the result remains an unresolved technical warning.
  2. 021 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
  3. 03The captured page presents Fotocart as an astronomy and photography store.

Web research findings

Independent findings for fotocart.in, 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
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
3 positive
Positive reviews (3)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • Fotocart About Usopen

    "Fotocart, H.No. 33/34, Ground Floor, Gali No. 1, Nehru Market, Badarpur, South, Delhi, 110044"

  • LinkedInopen

    "Grab Your Telescope Now From FOTOCART, Trusted since year 2015."

  • SVBONY Distributorsopen

    "FotoCart"

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. Domainfotocart.in
  2. Redirects tofotocart.in
  3. Hosted byAmazon.com, Inc.
  4. Referencesmedia-assets.hyperinvento.com · fonts.googleapis.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Jan 3, 2018
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 8.7 years old today.

  2. Sep 19, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed — inconclusive

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

fotocart.in has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable 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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers+91 98917 37309
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (+91 98917 37309).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age9 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy
RegisteredJan 3, 2018
ExpiresJan 3, 2027
Owner privacyHidden
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01
ExpiresJan 27, 2027 (130d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAmazon.com, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servernginx

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://fotocart.in/
  • 2200https://fotocart.in/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAmazon.com, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  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.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

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

Antivirus
Result2 of 90 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · Sep 19, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result3 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Verify before you trust

We couldn't gather enough signal for a confident verdict — tread carefully.

  1. Find the company through independent channels

    Search for the business on LinkedIn, an official registry (Companies House, OpenCorporates, SEC EDGAR), or via the brand's known social channels. If you can't trace a real entity, that itself is a red flag.

  2. Never pay by crypto, gift card, or bank transfer

    If the site forces an irreversible payment method, stop. Cards and PayPal give you chargeback protection — irreversible methods don't.

  3. Ask the forum

    Post the URL in the MalwareTips Scam Reports forum — experienced members often recognise patterns immediately.

    Open

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 fotocart.in a scam or is it safe?
fotocart.in has a Safety Score of 72/100 (Low Risk). The saved checks found no material threat, but the report did not meet every requirement for the highest Safe tier. Use normal caution and independently verify the operator before irreversible payments or unusually sensitive actions.
Is fotocart.in safe to use?
fotocart.in has a Safety Score of 72/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has fotocart.in been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 2 of 90 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged fotocart.in, 1 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is fotocart.in on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — fotocart.in 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 fotocart.in domain?
fotocart.in is 8.7 years old, registered on January 3, 2018 through GoDaddy. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does fotocart.in have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — fotocart.in presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, valid for another 130 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is fotocart.in hosted?
fotocart.in resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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 fotocart.in report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 19, 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 fotocart.in 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
72/100
Low Risk

Fotocart appears to be a retail site, but isolated security detections warrant caution

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

The available evidence identifies Fotocart as an astronomy and photography store. Its domain has been registered for 3,180 days, which provides some context but does not establish customer safety. The main concern is a limited security signal: 1 malicious and 1 suspicious result among 90 checks. No supplied evidence directly demonstrates phishing, malware delivery, or commercial fraud.

Recommended actionProceed cautiously: keep browser protection enabled and avoid entering payment or account information if the browser or security software displays a warning. Independently verify the seller and purchase terms before ordering.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.