Is gildedleaf.shop safe?
http://gildedleaf.shop/
Two-day-old store wearing GCI Outdoor branding, with steep discounts and no disclosed operator
gildedleaf.shop is a Shopify-style storefront selling folding chairs and rockers under GCI Outdoor branding. The domain was registered only two days before our review, the page shows no named operator, and the only off-domain email domain found is another .shop storefront. No malware or browser warnings were found, but a brand-cloning store this new, with no confirmed link to the brand it copies, scores High Risk. Ages and dates here are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
At a glance
Saved with this scan, at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026); each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
2 days old
Registered Nov 12, 2026Expires Nov 12, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Feb 12, 2027 (89 days after the check)Hosting
Canada (CA)
Shopify, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
Not available
Safe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 14, 2026
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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateA top-bar link goes to a different domain, gcioutdoeup.shop, pointing to a sibling-store network.
- MinorThe domain was registered two days before review.
- MinorThe storefront shows GCI Outdoor branding on an unrelated domain.
- MinorNo operator is disclosed and no contact email uses the site's own domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site lists a phone number, a postal address and return and refund policies.
- SupportsSafe Browsing shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid.
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).
Lost money or shared details on gildedleaf.shop? Do this now
Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
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- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on gildedleaf.shop, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com takes abuse reports at abuse-contact@publicdomainregistry.com (+91.2267209000). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: partial · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (66 of 98 engines answered) · saved result
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
gildedleaf.shop is a Shopify-style storefront selling folding chairs and rockers under GCI Outdoor branding. The domain was registered only two days before our review, the page shows no named operator, and the only off-domain email domain found is another .shop storefront. No malware or browser warnings were found, but a brand-cloning store this new, with no confirmed link to the brand it copies, scores High Risk.
Brand imitation on a brand-new domain
The page header shows a "GCI OUTDOOR" banner with the brand's triangular logo and slogan, yet the domain gildedleaf.shop has no visible connection to that brand and was registered two days ago. Product names such as BreezeRocker and Freestyle Rocker are shown on the store.
Listings show large markdowns on a store with no track record, for example $16.86 against a regular price of $85.00 and $20.81 against $100.00.
Who runs it, and the sibling stores
The site does not name an operator, and no contact email uses its own domain. The only off-domain email domain observed is gcioutclimb.shop, another .shop storefront. A phone number and a postal address are listed, but nothing confirms they belong to a real business.
The "New Arrivals" link in the top bar leads to a different domain, gcioutdoeup.shop, which points to a network of sibling stores rather than a single merchant.
Technical checks are clean
The browser threat feed shows no warning, the TLS connection is valid, and the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0 out of 100. The saved antivirus result predates the current registration and describes an earlier owner, so it says nothing about this store. These clean checks do not show that orders are delivered or that the seller is genuine.
The site publishes a 30-day return policy and says refunds are issued within 10 business days of approval. Shipping costs are shown at checkout. These are standard store terms and not proof of how the seller behaves.
Ages and dates in this analysis are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
Why the score is 38
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 98
No resultsSaved analysis from September 26, 2025 - stale
Analysis predates the current registration
The saved antivirus analysis is from September 26, 2025, which is before this domain's current registration, so it may describe an earlier owner. It is not counted as a clean result.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 98
- Clean66
- Undetected32
All 98 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
- Artists Against 419 - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Axur - Unrated
- benkow.cc - Clean
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Feodo Tracker - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Threatsourcing - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- Underworld - Unrated
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
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 a dark banner with the text "GCI OUTDOOR" and "GO OUT TO LIVE" around a triangular GCI logo, on a site hosted at gildedleaf.shop. Hero banner reads "MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS" and "YOU ROCK, MOM." with a yellow "SHOP MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS" button over a photo of a woman in a red folding rocker chair. Navigation bar lists Home, Outdoor Chairs, Kitchens & Tables, Shade, Shop by Activity, New Arrivals, Outlet; announcement bar reads "Shop the Latest Additions - New Arrivals". Category tiles show Rockers 6, XL Chairs 3, New Arrivals 26, Accessories 17. Cookie consent banner states the site and partners including Shopify use cookies for personalization, ads and analytics, with Accept and Reject buttons.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Header shows a dark banner with the text "GCI OUTDOOR" and "GO OUT TO LIVE" around a triangular GCI logo, on a site hosted at gildedleaf.shop.
- 02
Hero banner reads "MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS" and "YOU ROCK, MOM." with a yellow "SHOP MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS" button over a photo of a woman in a red folding rocker chair.
- 03
Navigation bar lists Home, Outdoor Chairs, Kitchens & Tables, Shade, Shop by Activity, New Arrivals, Outlet; announcement bar reads "Shop the Latest Additions - New Arrivals".
- 04
Category tiles show Rockers 6, XL Chairs 3, New Arrivals 26, Accessories 17.
- 05
Cookie consent banner states the site and partners including Shopify use cookies for personalization, ads and analytics, with Accept and Reject buttons.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 9
Where the page went
- First loadgildedleaf.shopSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
gcioutdoorlife
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-informationRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
gcioutdoorlife
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 66 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
Risk pattern correlation
Captured signals match known risk patterns
Moderate correlationThis view separates independent infrastructure evidence from pattern labels derived from the same captured page. Pattern matches add context, but they do not prove that the site belongs to a cross-domain scam network.
- IP 23.227.38.74 has 24 abuse reports — likely part of a network.
- Short name on low-trust .shop TLD — over-represented on scam farms.
Web research findings
Independent findings for gildedleaf.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for gildedleaf.shop. 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.
Infrastructure map
- Domaingildedleaf.shop
- Redirects towww.gildedleaf.shop
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesshop.app · cdn.shopify.comand 6 more
Domain Timeline
- Nov 12, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 14, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
gildedleaf.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.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Phone number listed (+17193557100).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 1% of the registration period had passed
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.
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 1% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for www.gildedleaf.shop.
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
- Judge.me reviews
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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://gildedleaf.shop/
- 2301https://gildedleaf.shop/
- 3200https://www.gildedleaf.shop/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Payments1
- shop.appin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts6
- cdn-cookie.avada.iocontacted
- cdn.shopify.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.googleapis.comcontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comcontacted
- monorail-edge.shopifysvc.comin pagecontacted
- otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
Chat & reviews4
- api.judge.mein page
- cdn.judge.mein page
- cdn1.judge.mein page
- judge.mein page
Other / unknown3
- cdnapps.avada.iocontacted
- gcioutdoeup.shopin page
- get.geojs.iocontacted
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
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 98 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Sep 26, 2025 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 98 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 26, 2025
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is gildedleaf.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is gildedleaf.shop safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on gildedleaf.shop — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from gildedleaf.shop?
I ordered from gildedleaf.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report gildedleaf.shop?
gildedleaf.shop looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has gildedleaf.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is gildedleaf.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the gildedleaf.shop domain?
Does gildedleaf.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the gildedleaf.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Two-day-old store wearing GCI Outdoor branding, with steep discounts and no disclosed operator
gildedleaf.shop is a Shopify-style storefront selling folding chairs and rockers under GCI Outdoor branding. The domain was registered only two days before our review, the page shows no named operator, and the only off-domain email domain found is another .shop storefront. No malware or browser warnings were found, but a brand-cloning store this new, with no confirmed link to the brand it copies, scores High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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