Is getsmokesonline.co safe?
http://getsmokesonline.co/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Unregulated online cigarette store with no verifiable operator identity and manual credit-card payment handling
Get Smokes Online presents itself as "Canada's #1 Online Cigarette Store" and runs a standard e-commerce flow with cart, checkout and product browsing. The domain is over three years old and the site uses an email address on its own domain, which are mild positive signals. However, the captured pages show no phone number and no operator postal address, and the site reportedly asks customers to message it to pay by credit card, a manual workaround that bypasses normal payment protections. One independent antivirus family also flagged the domain, though that observation is stale. Because the operator cannot be verified and payment handling is irregular, the site sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
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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 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- ModerateThe site reportedly asks customers to message it to pay by credit card, a manual workaround that bypasses standard payment protections.
- MinorNo phone number is listed on the captured page, making it hard for customers to reach the operator directly.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured page, so the business location cannot be confirmed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 1104 days old, indicating the site has existed for over three years.
- SupportsThe site provides a contact email on its own domain, info@getsmokesonline.co, rather than a free webmail address.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
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
Get Smokes Online presents itself as "Canada's #1 Online Cigarette Store" and runs a standard e-commerce flow with cart, checkout and product browsing. The domain is over three years old and the site uses an email address on its own domain, which are mild positive signals. However, the captured pages show no phone number and no operator postal address, and the site reportedly asks customers to message it to pay by credit card, a manual workaround that bypasses normal payment protections. One independent antivirus family also flagged the domain, though that observation is stale. Because the operator cannot be verified and payment handling is irregular, the site sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
Operator identity is not verifiable from the site's own pages
The captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address. For a store that takes orders and payments, the absence of both makes it difficult for a customer to confirm who they are dealing with or where to send a complaint.
The site does provide a contact email on its own domain, info@getsmokesonline.co, which is a better sign than a free webmail address. It also claims to be "Canada's #1 Online Cigarette Store" and describes employing over 75% First Nations staff and supporting reserves that cultivate tobacco. These are the site's own marketing claims and are not independently verified by the evidence reviewed.
Manual credit-card handling and a stale antivirus flag
The site reportedly accepts Interac E-transfer and major credit cards, but asks users to message it if they want to pay by credit card. A manual message-based card payment is unusual for a normal checkout and removes the standard dispute and chargeback protections a customer would expect from an automated processor.
One independent antivirus family reported an adverse result for the domain, with Netcraft and Gridinsoft named in the saved observation. That detection is marked stale, so it should be treated as a real but dated signal rather than proof of current malicious activity. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no active technical threat confirmed at the time of review.
A conventional storefront flow with a promotional signup popup
The site uses standard e-commerce calls to action: a cart showing "Cart / $ 0.00 0", "Add to cart" buttons, "Shop All Products", "Shop By Brands", "Shop By Categories", a "Checkout" step and a "How To Order" page. These are ordinary retail mechanics rather than a deceptive redirect or forced advertising flow.
A promotional popup offers "Get A Free Pack/Carton & 15% Off!" for signing up with a first order, and the page includes a newsletter signup. These are marketing prompts that collect contact details, not evidence of a scam by themselves, but they add to the data the site collects about visitors.
Why the score is 52
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
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
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Netcraft - Malicious
- 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
- 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
- BitDefendermisc
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googletobacco
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
Get A Free Pack/Carton & 15% Off! Sign up for a pack (or carton) of smokes, on us with your first order.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Get A Free Pack/Carton & 15% Off! Sign up for a pack (or carton) of smokes, on us with your first order.
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
Get Smokes Online - Your Source for Canadian Cigarettes
- Meta description
Come Shop at Get Smokes Online. Canada's best online tobacco store. High quality Tobacoo with super fast shipping anywhere in Canada.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about/Read
- Shipping policy/shipping-payments/Read
- Contact page/contact-us/Read
- Checkout/cart-3/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Get Smokes Online - Your Source for Canadian Cigarettes
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
- 01No phone number is listed on the captured page, making it hard for customers to reach the operator directly.
- 02No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, so the business location cannot be confirmed.
- 03The registrable domain is 1104 days old, indicating the site has existed for over three years.
Web research findings
Independent findings for getsmokesonline.co, 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 getsmokesonline.co. 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.
- Domaingetsmokesonline.co
- Redirects togetsmokesonline.co
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · static.klaviyo.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 12, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 21, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@getsmokesonline.co).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for getsmokesonline.co.
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
- Google Tag Manager
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://getsmokesonline.co/
- 2206https://getsmokesonline.co/
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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. 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.
The site reportedly asks customers to message it to pay by credit card, a manual workaround that bypasses standard payment protections. · No phone number is listed on the captured page, making it hard for customers to reach the operator directly.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Unregulated online cigarette store with no verifiable operator identity and manual credit-card payment handling
Get Smokes Online presents itself as "Canada's #1 Online Cigarette Store" and runs a standard e-commerce flow with cart, checkout and product browsing. The domain is over three years old and the site uses an email address on its own domain, which are mild positive signals. However, the captured pages show no phone number and no operator postal address, and the site reportedly asks customers to message it to pay by credit card, a manual workaround that bypasses normal payment protections. One independent antivirus family also flagged the domain, though that observation is stale. Because the operator cannot be verified and payment handling is irregular, the site sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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