Is franklin-caps.com safe?
http://franklin-caps.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Franklin Caps claims 104 years of family history and a closing sale, but its domain is only 9 days old.
Franklin Caps presents itself as a family cap shop with a 104-year history that is closing for good and giving away inventory for the cost of shipping. The domain, however, was registered only 9 days ago, and the site's own copy tells a personal story that cannot be true for a domain this new. The technical checks are clean, but the operator story and the free-plus-shipping funnel are the real risk.
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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 32/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store presents itself as a shop with 104 years of history holding a closing, farewell or anniversary sale, but its domain was registered only 9 days ago.
- ModerateThe storefront advertises everything free store-wide with only shipping to pay, leading into a cart and checkout flow.
- MinorThe store claims 104 years of family history and a closing sale, but the domain was registered only 9 days ago.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo malicious detections, a valid TLS connection, and no Safe Browsing warning were found.
- SupportsThe site lists an email on its own domain, a phone number, and a postal address.
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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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Franklin Caps presents itself as a family cap shop with a 104-year history that is closing for good and giving away inventory for the cost of shipping. The domain, however, was registered only 9 days ago, and the site's own copy tells a personal story that cannot be true for a domain this new. The technical checks are clean, but the operator story and the free-plus-shipping funnel are the real risk.
A 104-year history on a 9-day-old domain
The site tells visitors that for 104 years Franklin Caps has been part of the family, and that the shop is closing for good. The domain was registered only 9 days ago, so the claimed history cannot belong to this website.
The page copy also frames the sale as a personal promise, saying the shop first opened in honor of the owner's father and that the owner is now giving the caps away. This is the persona-boutique pattern: a personal story of long history or a closing sale combined with a brand-new domain.
Free caps, pay for shipping
The storefront advertises everything free store-wide, with the visitor asked only to cover shipping. The page copy repeats this: all caps for free, just cover the shipping.
The same page carries a closing-for-good banner and a cart, so the free-plus-shipping offer leads into a checkout flow rather than a giveaway. The commercial intent is a transaction, not a genuine closing sale.
Clean technical checks do not clear the operator
The saved checks found no malicious detections, a valid encrypted connection, and no threat warning from the browser threat feed. Those results mean no technical threat was detected, not that the shop is trustworthy.
The site does list a contact email on its own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Those are real contact details, but they do not resolve the contradiction between the claimed 104-year history and the 9-day-old domain.
Why the score is 32
The store presents itself as a shop with 104 years of history holding a closing, farewell or anniversary sale, but its domain was registered only 9 days ago. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 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
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- Googleshopping
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
EVERYTHING FREE STORE WIDE! - Just pay for Shipping FRANKLIN CAPS CLOSING FOR GOOD
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
EVERYTHING FREE STORE WIDE! - Just pay for Shipping
- 02
FRANKLIN CAPS CLOSING FOR GOOD
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
Franklin Caps
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-servicesRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/returns-and-refundsRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Franklin Caps
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The store presents itself as a shop with 104 years of history holding a closing, farewell or anniversary sale, but its domain was registered only 9 days ago.
- 02The store claims 104 years of family history and a closing sale, but the domain was registered only 9 days ago.
- 03The storefront advertises everything free store-wide with only shipping to pay, leading into a cart and checkout flow.
Web research findings
Independent findings for franklin-caps.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 franklin-caps.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.
- Domainfranklin-caps.com
- Redirects tofranklin-caps.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 21, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 30, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
franklin-caps.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@franklin-caps.com).
- Phone number listed (+1 251 353 1750).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for franklin-caps.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
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://franklin-caps.com/
- 2200https://franklin-caps.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- 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.
The store presents itself as a shop with 104 years of history holding a closing, farewell or anniversary sale, but its domain was registered only 9 days ago. · The storefront advertises everything free store-wide with only shipping to pay, leading into a cart and checkout flow.
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 30, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 30, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 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 franklin-caps.com a scam or a legit online store?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Franklin Caps claims 104 years of family history and a closing sale, but its domain is only 9 days old.
Franklin Caps presents itself as a family cap shop with a 104-year history that is closing for good and giving away inventory for the cost of shipping. The domain, however, was registered only 9 days ago, and the site's own copy tells a personal story that cannot be true for a domain this new. The technical checks are clean, but the operator story and the free-plus-shipping funnel are the real risk.
09 · Community
Community
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