Is ilovevango.com safe?
http://ilovevango.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Custom-gift store ilovevango.com carries a suspicious-shop rating and customer complaints about products that don't match the pictures.
ilovevango.com is a personalised-gift storefront selling embroidered portraits, shadow boxes and similar custom items through a standard cart and checkout. Independent research classifies it as a Suspicious Shop with a low 2.3/5 user rating, and a customer review describes a received gift as nothing like the picture with terrible quality. Security vendors have also flagged the URL as suspicious and one source ties the domain to a potentially unwanted program. The site does publish a company name, a US postal address, a phone number and an on-domain support mailbox, and the domain is over two years old, which are real counterweights. The combination of adverse external reports, a generic service mailbox and no confirmed delivery reliability places the site in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
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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 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's support contact is a generic service@ mailbox, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks.-4 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.3/5 user rating from 3 reviews."-4 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Ilovevango.com is tied to a potentially unwanted program (PUP). This is a type of software that is not necessarily malicious"-5 pts
- Moderate2 antivirus results 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.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 876 days old, ruling out the brand-new-domain pattern.
- SupportsThe site lists a phone number and an on-domain support email address.
- SupportsThe site names a company, Privatecustom LLC, and gives a US postal address in Boulder, Colorado.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 65 to 52 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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ilovevango.com is a personalised-gift storefront selling embroidered portraits, shadow boxes and similar custom items through a standard cart and checkout. Independent research classifies it as a Suspicious Shop with a low 2.3/5 user rating, and a customer review describes a received gift as nothing like the picture with terrible quality. Security vendors have also flagged the URL as suspicious and one source ties the domain to a potentially unwanted program. The site does publish a company name, a US postal address, a phone number and an on-domain support mailbox, and the domain is over two years old, which are real counterweights. The combination of adverse external reports, a generic service mailbox and no confirmed delivery reliability places the site in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
What independent sources say about the store
A security-vendor analysis classifies ilovevango.com as a Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including one blacklist detection and a low 2.3 out of 5 user rating drawn from three reviews. That is an adverse external assessment, not a neutral directory entry.
A customer review describes a received gift as looking nothing like the picture provided, with quality the reviewer called terrible and compared to a fifth-grader's embroidery. This is a first-hand complaint about the product not matching what was advertised.
A separate source states the domain is tied to a potentially unwanted program, a category of software that is not necessarily malicious but is unwanted. Combined with the saved antivirus observation that two engines marked the URL as suspicious, this adds a technical-reputation concern on top of the shopping complaints.
Who runs the store and how customers reach them
The site's own pages name a company, Privatecustom LLC, and give a US address at 1731 15th St, Boulder, Colorado. It also lists a phone number and a support mailbox on its own domain, service@ilovevango.com. These are real accountability signals and they weigh against the harshest reading.
At the same time, the support contact is a generic service@ mailbox, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks. On its own that is not decisive, but it sits alongside the adverse external reports and lowers confidence that a customer with a problem will get a meaningful response.
The domain is 876 days old, which is old enough to rule out the brand-new-domain pattern common in throwaway storefronts. That is a supportive fact, though age alone does not establish that orders are fulfilled as advertised.
Technical checks versus operator behaviour
The saved connection check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, so there is no evidence of an active drive-by infection or a hijacked certificate on the page as observed.
That clean technical picture does not clear the operator. Two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious in a saved observation, and a separate source ties the domain to a potentially unwanted program. The risk here is commercial and reputational rather than a live malware payload on the landing page.
Why the score is 52
The store's support contact is a generic service@ mailbox, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| URLQuerySuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- URLQuery - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiShopping
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
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
I LOVE VANGO
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
I LOVE VANGO
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
ilovevango
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/replacement-refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-and-deliveryRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
ilovevango
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were 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
- 012 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.3/5 user rating from 3 reviews."
- 022 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Ilovevango.com is tied to a potentially unwanted program (PUP). This is a type of software that is not necessarily malicious"
- 032 antivirus results 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.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually experiences
A visitor browses a catalogue of personalised gifts, adds an item to the cart and proceeds through the site's own checkout, with order tracking available afterwards. The commercial flow is entirely same-site and there is no cross-domain redirect in the observed path.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The documented outcome for at least one customer was a delivered item that looked nothing like the picture and was described as terrible quality. That is the concrete risk a buyer faces: paying for a custom product that may not match the advertised design or standard.
Treat ilovevango.com as a moderate-risk custom-gift store. If you order, use a payment method with chargeback rights, keep screenshots of the advertised product and the order confirmation, and be prepared for the delivered item to differ from the listing. Given the Suspicious Shop rating, the low user score and the complaint about product quality, consider a more established seller for high-value or sentimental custom pieces.
Web research findings
Independent findings for ilovevango.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.
- Gridinsoftopen
"This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.3/5 user rating from 3 reviews."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Worst gift I ever received it through the mail. This looks nothing like the picture I showed them the quality is terrible. It looks like a fifth grader embroidered this."
- CFOC.ORGopen
"Ilovevango.com is tied to a potentially unwanted program (PUP). This is a type of software that is not necessarily malicious"
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.
- Domainilovevango.com
- Redirects towww.ilovevango.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · img-va.myshopline.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 5, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 30, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (service@ilovevango.com).
- Phone number listed (+1 5855511315).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.ilovevango.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
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://ilovevango.com/
- 2301https://ilovevango.com/
- 3200https://www.ilovevango.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.
2 antivirus results 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 store's support contact is a generic service@ mailbox, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks. · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 1 blacklist detections and a low 2.3/5 user rating from 3 reviews."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 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 ilovevango.com a scam or is it safe?
Is ilovevango.com safe to use?
Has ilovevango.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is ilovevango.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Custom-gift store ilovevango.com carries a suspicious-shop rating and customer complaints about products that don't match the pictures.
ilovevango.com is a personalised-gift storefront selling embroidered portraits, shadow boxes and similar custom items through a standard cart and checkout. Independent research classifies it as a Suspicious Shop with a low 2.3/5 user rating, and a customer review describes a received gift as nothing like the picture with terrible quality. Security vendors have also flagged the URL as suspicious and one source ties the domain to a potentially unwanted program. The site does publish a company name, a US postal address, a phone number and an on-domain support mailbox, and the domain is over two years old, which are real counterweights. The combination of adverse external reports, a generic service mailbox and no confirmed delivery reliability places the site in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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