Is galerie-goldaffairs.live safe?
http://galerie-goldaffairs.live/
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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
A 10-day-old .live domain sells Fairtrade gold wedding rings under the GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe name, while the real business is documented on galerie-goldaffairs.de
galerie-goldaffairs.live is a WooCommerce jewellery shop that describes itself as GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe, complete with a gallery visit invitation, a Karlsruhe phone number and 'Made in Germany' claims for wedding rings and certified diamonds. The domain itself is only 10 days old, and the genuine GOLDAFFAIRS business — Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, responsible person Wiebke Goos, Fairmined brand DE30011 — is documented on galerie-goldaffairs.de and in Karlsruhe local coverage. The captured page shows no email address, no postal address and no operator disclosure, so a shopper cannot tell who would actually receive their money. Technical checks are clean, but the identity mismatch on a brand-new domain selling high-value goods puts this in the High Risk band.
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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe domain is 10 days old while the page tells an established Karlsruhe goldsmith story with a gallery and 'Made in Germany' production claims.
- MinorThe real GOLDAFFAIRS is documented at Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe on galerie-goldaffairs.de, with Wiebke Goos as responsible person and Fairmined brand DE30011, so the .live host is a separate unverified domain using the same brand and phone number.
- MinorNo email address, postal address or legal operator disclosure appears on the captured page; contact is a phone number and a form only.
What pushed the score up
- Supports0/93 engine detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS and a clean hosting IP reputation.
- SupportsA public record on a public review site reads: "4.90(60 reviews) ... Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"
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).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
galerie-goldaffairs.live is a WooCommerce jewellery shop that describes itself as GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe, complete with a gallery visit invitation, a Karlsruhe phone number and 'Made in Germany' claims for wedding rings and certified diamonds. The domain itself is only 10 days old, and the genuine GOLDAFFAIRS business — Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, responsible person Wiebke Goos, Fairmined brand DE30011 — is documented on galerie-goldaffairs.de and in Karlsruhe local coverage. The captured page shows no email address, no postal address and no operator disclosure, so a shopper cannot tell who would actually receive their money. Technical checks are clean, but the identity mismatch on a brand-new domain selling high-value goods puts this in the High Risk band.
An established brand story on a domain registered days ago
The homepage tells the story of a Karlsruhe goldsmith workshop: 'GOLDAFFAIRS verbindet traditionelles Goldschmiedehandwerk, innovative Herstellungstechniken sowie zeitloses Design' and pieces 'mit Leidenschaft und Liebe zum Detail in Karlsruhe hergestellt', alongside a 'Made in Germany' badge and an invitation to visit the gallery in Karlsruhe. That is a long-standing local business identity.
The registrable domain behind that story is 10 days old. Independent research places the real GOLDAFFAIRS at Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, with Wiebke Goos named as the responsible person on galerie-goldaffairs.de, a Fairmined listing under DE30011, and Karlsruhe local coverage describing the Fairtrade wedding-ring shop. The .live host is a separate domain reusing that brand and its Karlsruhe phone number, and nothing in the evidence shows it is operated or authorised by that business.
The page also markets high-value goods — Canadian natural diamonds from 0.3 ct with laser engraving and GIA certificates, sapphire and silver pendants priced at 235,00 € and 260,00 € — which is exactly the kind of catalogue a copied storefront would carry. No shop-kit template, China storefront platform or refund-trap clause was detected in the captured content, so the concern here is the identity, not a known fake-shop kit.
Clean scanners, undisclosed operator
Nothing technical is wrong with the connection: 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with an abuse confidence score of 0/100. There were no popups, downloads or notification prompts in the captured page.
The risk sits with the operator. The captured page lists a phone number, 0721 470 41 531, and a contact form, but no email address and no postal address, and no legal operator or registration disclosure was found. For a shop asking hundreds of euros for gold and diamonds, that leaves the buyer unable to verify who is behind the checkout.
Why the score is 30
The domain is 10 days old while the page tells an established Karlsruhe goldsmith story with a gallery and 'Made in Germany' production claims.
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the wordmark 'GOLDAFFAIRS' with 'FAIRS' in yellow, plus tagline 'ZEITLOSER SCHMUCK / INDIVIDUELLE EHERINGE' and nav items ÜBER UNS, SHOP, TRAURINGE, ANFERTIGUNG, GALERIE. Top-right shows 'Kontakt', 'FAQ' and phone number '0721 470 41 531'; no email or postal address is visible in the header. Hero image of stacked gold and silver wedding rings on wood with overlay text 'HANDGEFERTIGTE TRAURINGE AUS FAIRTRADE GOLD' and CTA 'ZU UNSEREN INDIVIDUELLEN EHERINGEN'. Banner strip reads 'VEREINBARE JETZT EINEN BERATUNGSTERMIN' (book a consultation appointment). Shopping-bag icon in the header indicates an e-commerce cart; no cart contents or checkout page visible.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Header shows the wordmark 'GOLDAFFAIRS' with 'FAIRS' in yellow, plus tagline 'ZEITLOSER SCHMUCK / INDIVIDUELLE EHERINGE' and nav items ÜBER UNS, SHOP, TRAURINGE, ANFERTIGUNG, GALERIE.
- 02
Top-right shows 'Kontakt', 'FAQ' and phone number '0721 470 41 531'; no email or postal address is visible in the header.
- 03
Hero image of stacked gold and silver wedding rings on wood with overlay text 'HANDGEFERTIGTE TRAURINGE AUS FAIRTRADE GOLD' and CTA 'ZU UNSEREN INDIVIDUELLEN EHERINGEN'.
- 04
Banner strip reads 'VEREINBARE JETZT EINEN BERATUNGSTERMIN' (book a consultation appointment).
- 05
Shopping-bag icon in the header indicates an e-commerce cart; no cart contents or checkout page visible.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Trauringe I Fairtrade Verlobungsringe I GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe
- Meta description
Fairtrade Trauringe, nachhaltig, individuell und handgefertigt von GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe. Schmuck, Eheringe & Verlobungsringe aus FAIRTRADE Gold.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Trauringe I Fairtrade Verlobungsringe I GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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 domain is 10 days old while the page tells an established Karlsruhe goldsmith story with a gallery and 'Made in Germany' production claims.
- 02No email address, postal address or legal operator disclosure appears on the captured page; contact is a phone number and a form only.
- 03The real GOLDAFFAIRS is documented at Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe on galerie-goldaffairs.de, with Wiebke Goos as responsible person and Fairmined brand DE30011, so the .live host is a separate unverified domain using the same brand and phone number.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you order here
A visitor who clicks 'Zu unseren individuellen Eheringen' or 'Jetzt Verlobungsring aussuchen' moves into a same-site WooCommerce cart with a shopping-bag icon in the header; the shop links stay on galerie-goldaffairs.live, so payment would go to whoever controls this new domain rather than to the documented Karlsruhe business.
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 page promises free insured UPS shipping within Germany above 100 € and a 30-day return window for online purchases. Those terms are only as good as the operator behind them, and the operator is not disclosed anywhere on the captured page.
Do not order jewellery from galerie-goldaffairs.live. If you want GOLDAFFAIRS wedding rings, buy through the documented galerie-goldaffairs.de site or visit the Karlsruhe gallery directly, and call the shop on its published number to ask whether this .live domain belongs to them before entering any payment details.
Web research findings
Independent findings for galerie-goldaffairs.live, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- GOLDAFFAIRS (galerie-goldaffairs.de) product pageopen
"Durlacher Allee 35 76131 Karlsruhe https://www.galerie-goldaffairs.de/kontakt/ #### Verantwortliche Person in der EU Wiebke Goos"
- Fairmined Actors List (Alliance for Responsible Mining)open
"DE30011</td><td>Goldaffairs</td><td>Durlacher Allee 35, Karls"
- Top-Rated.Online (Google review aggregation)open
"4.90(60 reviews) ... Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"
- karlsruhelokal.deopen
"Bei GOLDAFFAIRS in Karlsruhe finden Sie individuelle Trauringe, Schmuck & Verlobungsringe aus FAIRTRADE Gold"
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domaingalerie-goldaffairs.live
- Redirects togalerie-goldaffairs.live
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · consent.cookiebot.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 27, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 6, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
galerie-goldaffairs.live 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.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (0721 470 41 531).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
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 galerie-goldaffairs.live.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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://galerie-goldaffairs.live/
- 2502https://galerie-goldaffairs.live/
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 domain is 10 days old while the page tells an established Karlsruhe goldsmith story with a gallery and 'Made in Germany' production claims. · The real GOLDAFFAIRS is documented at Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe on galerie-goldaffairs.de, with Wiebke Goos as responsible person and Fairmined brand DE30011, so the .live host is a separate unverified domain using the same brand and phone number.
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 Nov 6, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 6, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is galerie-goldaffairs.live a scam or a legit online store?
Is galerie-goldaffairs.live safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to galerie-goldaffairs.live?
Can I get my money back from galerie-goldaffairs.live?
I ordered from galerie-goldaffairs.live but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report galerie-goldaffairs.live?
Why does galerie-goldaffairs.live look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has galerie-goldaffairs.live been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is galerie-goldaffairs.live on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
A 10-day-old .live domain sells Fairtrade gold wedding rings under the GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe name, while the real business is documented on galerie-goldaffairs.de
galerie-goldaffairs.live is a WooCommerce jewellery shop that describes itself as GOLDAFFAIRS Karlsruhe, complete with a gallery visit invitation, a Karlsruhe phone number and 'Made in Germany' claims for wedding rings and certified diamonds. The domain itself is only 10 days old, and the genuine GOLDAFFAIRS business — Durlacher Allee 35, 76131 Karlsruhe, responsible person Wiebke Goos, Fairmined brand DE30011 — is documented on galerie-goldaffairs.de and in Karlsruhe local coverage. The captured page shows no email address, no postal address and no operator disclosure, so a shopper cannot tell who would actually receive their money. Technical checks are clean, but the identity mismatch on a brand-new domain selling high-value goods puts this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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