Is hopecartel.org safe?
http://hopecartel.org/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (66 of 97 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Five-day-old hopecartel.org mirrors an established Australian breathwork brand while running its store and account pages on a separate .info domain and a free Hotmail inbox.
Hope Cartel presents itself as a breathwork and wellness community tied to 'GazWright.Official', selling merchandise and booking sessions such as '(NSW) Interstate Group Breathwork - Let It Go (Newcastle)'. The domain hopecartel.org is only five days old, while independent research points to hopecartel.com.au as the established home of the same brand. Its account, orders, settings and login links all point to account.hopecartel.info, and its only business contact is a Hotmail address rather than a mailbox on its own domain. The hosting IP carries a 100/100 abuse confidence score across 44 saved reports. The browser threat feed and the TLS check are clean, but those only show no detections at scan time. The combination of a brand-new domain, a lookalike brand name, a cross-domain account system and free-mail contact is the pattern of a secondary or impersonating storefront, so the score sits in the Moderate 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 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 5 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- ModerateProfile, Orders, Settings and LOGIN all point to account.hopecartel.info, a different domain from the one the visitor typed in.
- ModerateThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 100/100 across 44 saved reports.
- MinorThe registrable domain hopecartel.org is only five days old while presenting itself as an established breathwork brand.
- MinorThe only business contact is a Hotmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the site's own domain, and no phone number is listed on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- 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
Hope Cartel presents itself as a breathwork and wellness community tied to 'GazWright.Official', selling merchandise and booking sessions such as '(NSW) Interstate Group Breathwork - Let It Go (Newcastle)'. The domain hopecartel.org is only five days old, while independent research points to hopecartel.com.au as the established home of the same brand. Its account, orders, settings and login links all point to account.hopecartel.info, and its only business contact is a Hotmail address rather than a mailbox on its own domain. The hosting IP carries a 100/100 abuse confidence score across 44 saved reports. The browser threat feed and the TLS check are clean, but those only show no detections at scan time. The combination of a brand-new domain, a lookalike brand name, a cross-domain account system and free-mail contact is the pattern of a secondary or impersonating storefront, so the score sits in the Moderate Risk band.
A new .org domain wearing an established brand's name
The registrable domain hopecartel.org is five days old, yet the page presents itself as 'Hope Cartel' and references 'GazWright.Official', the same identity used by the established hopecartel.com.au site found in independent research. A brand-new domain adopting an existing brand's name is a classic impersonation setup, and nothing on the captured page shows an authorization or ownership link to the .com.au entity.
The site is not a static brochure: it runs a merchandise cart and a booking flow for breathwork sessions, including '(NSW) Interstate Group Breathwork - Let It Go (Newcastle)'. That means visitors are being asked to transact on a five-day-old domain that mirrors a real brand.
Account, orders and login all leave the site for hopecartel.info
The navigation links labelled Profile, Orders, Settings and LOGIN all point to account.hopecartel.info rather than staying on hopecartel.org. A visitor who registers or signs in is handing credentials and order data to a different domain from the one they typed in, which is a common way to separate a disposable storefront from the account system that actually collects the data.
The only business contact shown is hopecartel@hotmail.com, a free-mail inbox rather than a mailbox on the site's own domain, and no phone number appears on the captured page. For a storefront that asks for payment and account details, that is a weak and hard-to-verify operator footprint.
Clean scanners, but a hosting IP with heavy abuse history
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no evidence of malware or an active phishing block at scan time. Those results mean no detections, not that the operator is trustworthy.
The hosting IP behind the site has an abuse confidence score of 100/100 across 44 saved reports. That does not prove this specific page is malicious, but it places the storefront on infrastructure with a documented abuse history, which raises the risk of any transaction or sign-up made there.
The saved antivirus analysis is from June 18, 2025, before the domain's current registration on October 25, 2026, so it describes an earlier owner's site and counts neither for nor against this one.
Why the score is 52
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 97
No resultsSaved analysis from June 18, 2025 - stale
Analysis predates the current registration
The saved antivirus analysis is from June 18, 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
- 97
All 97 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
- 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 - Clean
- 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 - Unrated
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerblogs and personal sites
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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Preparing the saved page preview.
Visual context from the captured page
HOPE CARTEL
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
HOPE CARTEL
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 - Hope Cartel
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-us/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-service/Read
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policy/Read
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policy/Read
- Contact page/pages/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - Hope Cartel
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 66 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
- 01The registrable domain hopecartel.org is only five days old while presenting itself as an established breathwork brand.
- 02The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 100/100 across 44 saved reports.
- 03The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hopecartel.org, 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 hopecartel.org. 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.
- Domainhopecartel.org
- Redirects tohopecartel.org
- Hosted byWHG Hosting Services Ltd
- Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 25, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 31, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
hopecartel.org was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete 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.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (hotmail.com).
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 24 social profiles.
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 hopecartel.org.
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://hopecartel.org/
- 2200https://hopecartel.org/
Server Reputation
Sites linked to this one
Other sites we have reports for that share something checkable with this one. A shared detail is a lead to compare, not proof that the sites have the same owner or the same risk; each keeps its own rating.
On the same server IP
Also served from 65.181.116.46 (WHG Hosting Services Ltd). Unrelated sites can share a server, so this is a lead, not proof.
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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.
The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 100/100 across 44 saved reports.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · Profile, Orders, Settings and LOGIN all point to account.hopecartel.info, a different domain from the one the visitor typed in.
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 97 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jun 18, 2025 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 97 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jun 18, 2025
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 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 hopecartel.org a scam or is it safe?
Is hopecartel.org safe to use?
Has hopecartel.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is hopecartel.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the hopecartel.org domain?
Does hopecartel.org have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Five-day-old hopecartel.org mirrors an established Australian breathwork brand while running its store and account pages on a separate .info domain and a free Hotmail inbox.
Hope Cartel presents itself as a breathwork and wellness community tied to 'GazWright.Official', selling merchandise and booking sessions such as '(NSW) Interstate Group Breathwork - Let It Go (Newcastle)'. The domain hopecartel.org is only five days old, while independent research points to hopecartel.com.au as the established home of the same brand. Its account, orders, settings and login links all point to account.hopecartel.info, and its only business contact is a Hotmail address rather than a mailbox on its own domain. The hosting IP carries a 100/100 abuse confidence score across 44 saved reports. The browser threat feed and the TLS check are clean, but those only show no detections at scan time. The combination of a brand-new domain, a lookalike brand name, a cross-domain account system and free-mail contact is the pattern of a secondary or impersonating storefront, so the score sits in the Moderate Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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