Is hopsonline.de safe?
http://hopsonline.de/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 4 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (82 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not available: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
German shop site with a real-looking imprint but placeholder contact and About pages
Hops-Online presents itself as a German e-commerce shop operated by Kurtulus Kaya in Mönchengladbach, with a VAT ID and a Gmail address for contact. The site runs on WordPress with the Envo eCommerce theme and offers standard shop navigation and an add-to-cart path. However, the contact page shows placeholder details for a London address and a generic email, and the About page contains generic template text rather than a real company history. No malware or phishing detections were found, but the placeholder content and the mismatch between the claimed German business and the UK contact details create moderate risk for a visitor considering a purchase.
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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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe site uses a free Gmail address for business communication instead of a domain-based email, which is inconsistent with a professional e-commerce operation.-12 pts
- ModerateThe contact page contains placeholder details (hello@yourdomain.com, a US phone number, and a London address) that do not match the claimed German business identity.-12 pts
- ModerateThe About page contains generic template text about growing a business quickly, rather than a real company history.-13 pts
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 95 to 58 and split those 37 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Hops-Online presents itself as a German e-commerce shop operated by Kurtulus Kaya in Mönchengladbach, with a VAT ID and a Gmail address for contact. The site runs on WordPress with the Envo eCommerce theme and offers standard shop navigation and an add-to-cart path. However, the contact page shows placeholder details for a London address and a generic email, and the About page contains generic template text rather than a real company history. No malware or phishing detections were found, but the placeholder content and the mismatch between the claimed German business and the UK contact details create moderate risk for a visitor considering a purchase.
Claimed operator identity and contact details
The site's imprint names Hops-Online, owner Kurtulus Kaya, with a registered office at Kelzenberger Weg 92, 41199 Mönchengladbach, Germany, and a warehouse at Odenkirchener Str. 89, 41236 Mönchengladbach. It lists a German VAT ID (DE336211436), a mobile phone number, and a Gmail address (e.commercehops@gmail.com) for business communication.
Using a free Gmail address rather than a domain-based email is unusual for a professional shop and makes it harder to verify that the business is tied to the domain. The contact page, however, shows a different set of details: a placeholder email (hello@yourdomain.com), a US-style phone number, and a London address, none of which match the German identity claimed elsewhere.
Template content and shop functionality
The About page contains generic template text about growing a business quickly, which does not describe a real company history or provide verifiable background. This kind of placeholder content is common on newly built or template-based sites and does not by itself prove fraud, but it weakens confidence in the operator.
The site is built on WordPress with the Envo eCommerce theme, and it includes standard shop elements such as a cart total, a Shop link, a Shop All link, and Add to cart buttons. These are normal e-commerce features and do not indicate malicious behavior.
Technical checks and connection safety
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this site, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports. The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. These are positive technical signals, but they only show that no active malware or phishing was detected at the time of the scan; they do not confirm that the shop is trustworthy or that orders will be fulfilled.
Why the score is 58
The site uses a free Gmail address for business communication instead of a domain-based email, which is inconsistent with a professional e-commerce operation. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from February 9, 2022 - stale
No detections across 82 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 11 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AICC (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- Armis - Clean
- Artists Against 419 - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- BADWARE.INFO - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- benkow.cc - Clean
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- Comodo Valkyrie Verdict - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- Cyren - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- EonScope - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- Feodo Tracker - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hoplite Industries - Clean
- IPsum - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- MalBeacon - Clean
- MalSilo - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- Spamhaus - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Threatsourcing - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
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
Hops-Online
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Hops-Online
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
Hops-Online – Ihr Onlineshop für Pflege, Haushalt und mehr…
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Hops-Online – Ihr Onlineshop für Pflege, Haushalt und mehr…
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 82 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
2 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The site uses a free Gmail address for business communication instead of a domain-based email, which is inconsistent with a professional e-commerce operation.
- 02The About page contains generic template text about growing a business quickly, rather than a real company history.
- 03The contact page contains placeholder details (hello@yourdomain.com, a US phone number, and a London address) that do not match the claimed German business identity.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hopsonline.de, 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 hopsonline.de. 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.
- Domainhopsonline.de
- Redirects tohopsonline.de
- Hosted bySTRATO AG
- Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.com
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Phone number listed (+49 151 75260979).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for hopsonline.de.
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://hopsonline.de/
- 2206https://hopsonline.de/
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.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The site uses a free Gmail address for business communication instead of a domain-based email, which is inconsistent with a professional e-commerce operation. · The contact page contains placeholder details (hello@yourdomain.com, a US phone number, and a London address) that do not match the claimed German business identity.
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 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Feb 9, 2022 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Feb 9, 2022
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 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
German shop site with a real-looking imprint but placeholder contact and About pages
Hops-Online presents itself as a German e-commerce shop operated by Kurtulus Kaya in Mönchengladbach, with a VAT ID and a Gmail address for contact. The site runs on WordPress with the Envo eCommerce theme and offers standard shop navigation and an add-to-cart path. However, the contact page shows placeholder details for a London address and a generic email, and the About page contains generic template text rather than a real company history. No malware or phishing detections were found, but the placeholder content and the mismatch between the claimed German business and the UK contact details create moderate risk for a visitor considering a purchase.
09 · Community
Community
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