Is hearthgiftco.com safe?
http://hearthgiftco.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 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
Hearthgiftco.com is a 50-day-old gift shop built from a known fake-shop template
Hearthgiftco.com presents itself as an online gift store called Hearthmadegifts. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, the domain is only 50 days old, and the only contact listed is a generic service@ mailbox with no phone number. Together these point to a shell store, not an established business. Technical checks found no browser warnings and a valid encrypted connection, but those results do not show that the seller is trustworthy. We rate it High 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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe site's own About-us copy is a template used across a known network of fake shops, on a 50-day-old domain.-5 pts
- StrongSeveral fake-shop tells appear together on a 50-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, fake-shop template copy.-5 pts
- ModerateThe only contact is a generic service@ mailbox, and no phone number is listed.-3 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorIt combines several fake-shop warning signs on a 50-day-old domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThere is no Safe Browsing warning, and the encrypted connection is valid.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 43 to 30 and split those 13 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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- Change any password you entered
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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
Hearthgiftco.com presents itself as an online gift store called Hearthmadegifts. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, the domain is only 50 days old, and the only contact listed is a generic service@ mailbox with no phone number. Together these point to a shell store, not an established business. Technical checks found no browser warnings and a valid encrypted connection, but those results do not show that the seller is trustworthy. We rate it High Risk.
Signs this store belongs to a fake-shop operation
The site's home page and About-us page reuse the About-us copy from a fake-shop template kit that appears across a known network of fake stores. Several of the kit's standard passages appear on this site.
This template copy appears alongside a generic service@hearthgiftco.com contact mailbox on a domain registered only 50 days ago. No phone number is listed on the captured page. The store gives no company name, registration details or verifiable address to offset these warning signs.
Technical checks versus seller risk
The browser threat feed returned no warning, and the connection is properly encrypted. One antivirus engine flagged the URL as suspicious in a saved, older result. The main risk is not malware. It is whether this store is a real, accountable seller, and its own pages give strong reasons for doubt.
The site encourages buying with a payment-methods section, a 'Shop with confidence' badge and an email sign-up form. All of these stay on the same domain, so there is no outside checkout. These reassurance elements are not evidence that orders are fulfilled.
Why the score is 30
The site's own About-us copy is a template used across a known network of fake shops, on a 50-day-old domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 9, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- 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 - 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 - Unrated
- 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
Welcome to Hearthmadegifts
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Welcome to Hearthmadegifts
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
hearthmadegifts
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-informationRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
hearthmadegifts
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
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's own About-us copy is a template used across a known network of fake shops, on a 50-day-old domain.
- 02Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 50-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, fake-shop template copy.
- 03The only contact is a generic service@ mailbox, and no phone number is listed.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hearthgiftco.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 hearthgiftco.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.
- Domainhearthgiftco.com
- Redirects tohearthgiftco.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · img-va.myshopline.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 27, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 50 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 16, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
hearthgiftco.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.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (service@hearthgiftco.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
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 hearthgiftco.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Site platform
- Shopline
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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://hearthgiftco.com/
- 2200https://hearthgiftco.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
- 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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. 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's own About-us copy is a template used across a known network of fake shops, on a 50-day-old domain. · Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 50-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, fake-shop template copy.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 9, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 9, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 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 hearthgiftco.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is hearthgiftco.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on hearthgiftco.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from hearthgiftco.com?
I ordered from hearthgiftco.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report hearthgiftco.com?
hearthgiftco.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has hearthgiftco.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is hearthgiftco.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the hearthgiftco.com domain?
Does hearthgiftco.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the hearthgiftco.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Hearthgiftco.com is a 50-day-old gift shop built from a known fake-shop template
Hearthgiftco.com presents itself as an online gift store called Hearthmadegifts. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, the domain is only 50 days old, and the only contact listed is a generic service@ mailbox with no phone number. Together these point to a shell store, not an established business. Technical checks found no browser warnings and a valid encrypted connection, but those results do not show that the seller is trustworthy. We rate it High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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