Is ghsflow.shop safe?
http://ghsflow.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 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
ghsflow.shop is a brand-impersonation storefront copying the GARDE home-decor brand, on an 87-day-old domain flagged by security vendors.
The site presents itself as GARDE, a home-decor shop, and uses the brand's name and founding story. Independent research shows that story belongs to the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com, founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz and John Davidson, while this domain is only 87 days old. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as adverse, and the page carries shopping calls to action such as 'Shop Sale', 'Shop Now' and 'Shop the Collection' with a cart. The combination of copied brand identity, a very new domain, and security-vendor detections places this in the High Risk band.
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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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong2 independent antivirus families 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 copies the GARDE brand identity and founding story from the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com without authorization.
- MinorThe domain is 87 days old, which contradicts the site's presentation of an established brand founded in 2012.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and TLS was valid, meaning no detections were recorded at scan time.
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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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site presents itself as GARDE, a home-decor shop, and uses the brand's name and founding story. Independent research shows that story belongs to the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com, founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz and John Davidson, while this domain is only 87 days old. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as adverse, and the page carries shopping calls to action such as 'Shop Sale', 'Shop Now' and 'Shop the Collection' with a cart. The combination of copied brand identity, a very new domain, and security-vendor detections places this in the High Risk band.
Copied brand identity on a brand-new domain
The site displays the GARDE name, and independent research identifies GARDE as a legitimate home-decor brand founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz and John Davidson, with its own site at gardeshop.com. The same research shows the brand's history and mission statement being reused here without authorization.
That claimed history does not match the domain: the registrable domain is only 87 days old. A shop presenting itself as an established brand while sitting on a domain registered weeks ago is a strong indicator of impersonation rather than a genuine retailer.
Security detections and the commercial path
Two independent antivirus families reported an adverse result for this domain. The saved observation is partial and its freshness is stale, so the detection should be treated as real but its timing confirmed; it is still an adverse signal that aligns with the impersonation finding.
The page's own commercial calls to action are 'Shop Sale', 'Shop Now' and 'Shop the Collection', and a cart counter is present. These are same-site links that keep the visitor inside ghsflow.shop, so any purchase or payment would be handled by this operator rather than by the legitimate GARDE brand.
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean no detections were recorded at scan time; they do not establish that the operator is legitimate or that orders will be fulfilled.
Why the score is 30
The site copies the GARDE brand identity and founding story from the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com without authorization. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
4/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 11, 2026 - stale
4 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- CRDF - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- 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
- Criminal IP - Clean
- 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- 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
- 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
GARDE
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
GARDE
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
Home | GARDE
- Meta description
Out of love and passion for design, GARDE was conceived and founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz, and partner John Davidson. A desire to introduce unique and talented artists and designers from around the world helped evolve GARDE from gifts to exquisite furnishings by known and emerging designers.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
- Refund / returns policy/returnsRead
- Shipping policy/shippingRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home | GARDE
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The site copies the GARDE brand identity and founding story from the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com without authorization.
- 022 independent antivirus families 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.
- 03The domain is 87 days old, which contradicts the site's presentation of an established brand founded in 2012.
Web research findings
Independent findings for ghsflow.shop, 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.
- Garde Shopopen
"Out of love and passion for design, GARDE was conceived and founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz, and partner John Davidson."
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.
- Domainghsflow.shop
- Redirects toghsflow.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 25, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 87 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
ghsflow.shop 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.
Domain & Encryption
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 ghsflow.shop.
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://ghsflow.shop/
- 2200https://ghsflow.shop/
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.
2 independent antivirus families 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 copies the GARDE brand identity and founding story from the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com without authorization. · The domain is 87 days old, which contradicts the site's presentation of an established brand founded in 2012.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 4 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 11, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result4 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 11, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 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 ghsflow.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is ghsflow.shop safe to use?
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Can I get my money back from ghsflow.shop?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
ghsflow.shop is a brand-impersonation storefront copying the GARDE home-decor brand, on an 87-day-old domain flagged by security vendors.
The site presents itself as GARDE, a home-decor shop, and uses the brand's name and founding story. Independent research shows that story belongs to the legitimate retailer at gardeshop.com, founded in 2012 by Scotti Sitz and John Davidson, while this domain is only 87 days old. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as adverse, and the page carries shopping calls to action such as 'Shop Sale', 'Shop Now' and 'Shop the Collection' with a cart. The combination of copied brand identity, a very new domain, and security-vendor detections places this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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